KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. Mae Franking (writing as "M. T. F."). — My Chinese Marriage.
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, The first UK edition (first printing) of Porters first book, ghost-written for Mae Franking. 8vo. 183pp. Black cloth lettered at the spine and upper board and with an ornate border. Binding slightly cocked. Spine ends a little rubbed in places. Neat name of former owner to the front free endpaper. A good, quite bright copy. A ghost-written account of the life of Mae Munro Watkins, a seventeen-year-old Scots-Irish girl who married a Chinese student she met whilst attending high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Social pressure forced the couple to withdraw from the university and Mae Franking ultimately lost her US citizenship., Good