Maurice, Michael [pseudonym of Skinner, Conrad Arthur] — NOT In OUR STARS

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (n. d.). First US Edition, ca 1923. Cf Locke I, p. 153. Blue cloth binding, stamped gilt lettering and title border. Dust jacket. 288 pp. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" Classic, convoluted tale of a man who lives his life backward. From the jacket flap: "How he lives back through [his past], how fate stalks him with murder and taunts him with a jealous passion born of love, and how he struggles to smash the shackles of pre-destination and snatch happiness from the black shadows of impeding disaster, combine to make this one of the strangest stories imaginable.". Some text-block push. Covers gently rubbed at spine ends and corners; light foxing to text block, endpapers, and a few beginning pages. Interior otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket not price-clipped, but somewhat soiled and worn, with small chip/loss to spine ends and corners; price to spine faded. Very Good/About Very Good.