The Good Girl
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1917. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good+. An uncommon book, first published in 1912, this being the Authorized American Edition, revised and corrected by the author. It had a mixed reception on publication and reviewers describing it as "revolting", "unclean" and "Ugly and depressing", popular among authors at the time who considered it distinctive and a work of genius. The New York Evening Post said in a review - "It is not too much to say that The Good Girl is one of the top twenty best books by living American novelists". The writer Robert Aickman wrote of O'Sullivan that: "The curious should try to find a copy of his novel, The Good Girl. The quest is difficult, but the product distinctive … having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers. " this copy being about VG+, clean boards, brown label with some tears and folds. University of Kansas bookplate in front, gift from JP, JA Baldwin. Book internally in about fine condition. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection. VG+. Item #8466
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