Rare Books
"False Youth" 1929
$500
334 pp.
Lawrence Rising
Horace Liveright
Second printing
1929
7.75"x 5.5"
The fashionable world of London accepted this poised American woman, a distinguished man loved her, and maturity brought her a loveliness she had not known in youth.
But Nature had a trick up its sleeve: a young, too handsome Guardsman who kindled in Louisa St. Aubyn a false flame of passion, more terrible because it was her last.
The Indian Summer of a woman who thought she had lived beyond folly.