Dildo Cay
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. Pictorial cloth. The 1940 1st edition of what has to be one of the great titles of all time for a conventional, serious novel. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the edges. "Ainsworths do not marry for love. They choose their women to carry on the line -- thoroughbreds who can endure the loneliness and the eternal wind of the Ainsworth island -- Dildo Cay. This speck in the Atlantic lies six hundred miles southeast of Great Bahama. Here the Ainsworths have lived for eleven generations -- the one white family among two hundred blacks." (from the dustjacket flap). Long live Dildo Cay!! Near Fine / Very Good +. Item #20449
Price: $500.00