WESLEY, MARY — A Dubious Legacy
New York: Viking, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670846724. Stated first US edition, first printing of Mary Wesley's novel, a story of a two young Englishmen who take their sweethearts to visit a friend's country house with a plan for each to propose marriage. The story stretches from there to four decades later in this ".tragicomic novel about love and its entrapments." --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with color Pierre Bonnard painting "Tea or The Blue Toque" to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with very slightly warped boards. Unclipped jacket with minor rubbing, else intact and bright.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 272 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
