LASKI, MARGHANITA — The Victorian Chaise Longue

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1960. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. First US paperback book. This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book number 441 K, with a price of .35 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. There is some very beginning bumping / rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some light generalized toning throughout. "Laski began writing in earnest after her son and daughter were born. Most of her output in the 1940s and 1950s was fiction. She wrote the original screenplay of the 1952 UK film It Started in Paradise and sold the film rights to Little Boy Lost (1949) , her novel about an Englishman in search of a lost son in the ruins of post-war France, to John Mills. However, when the film adaptation was released in 1953 she was upset that it had been turned into a musical starring Bing Crosby. She turned towards non-fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, producing works on Charlotte Mary Yonge, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Rudyard Kipling." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .