BOYLE, KAY — Death of a Man
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; full gray-green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; orange topstain. Kay Boyle (1902 – 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. In 1936, she wrote this novel, Death of a Man, set in Austria in the period of the Dollfuss regime, it is an attack on the growing threat of Nazism. The spine is very lightly sunned, else as new; the volume is in otherwise perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. Scarce in this wonderful condition. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 321 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .
