John P. Marquand. The Late George Apley. A Novel in the Form of a Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937. First edition ("Lovely Pearl" at the top of page 19). Octavo. 354 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles
Sweeping us into the inner sanctum of Boston society, into the Beacon Hill town houses and exclusive private clubs where only the city's wealthiest and most powerful congregate, this novel gives us-through the story of one family and its patriarch, the recently deceased...