{"product_id":"to-2026-121","title":"That American Woman (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWAUGH, Alec.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat American Woman.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST AMERICAN EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e New York: Farrar \u0026amp; Rinehart, 1932. The U.S. issue of the novel published in London by Cassell in 1931 as \u003cem\u003eSo Lovers Dream\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInscribed by Waugh on the front free endpaper: \"Dear Charlie — with affectionate warm wishes, this new book of mine,\" signed Alec Waugh. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA warmly inscribed first American edition in the scarce pictorial jacket, with the appeal of Alec Waugh in his own right and of the Waugh family name. Octavo. 342 pp. Publisher's green cloth in the color pictorial dust jacket (priced $2.00). Near fine in a very good dust jacket, with a small chip to the lower front edge, minor wear to the extremities, and light fading to the spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlec Waugh — elder brother of Evelyn, son of the publisher Arthur Waugh of Chapman and Hall — made his name at nineteen with the controversial school novel \u003cem\u003eThe Loom of Youth\u003c\/em\u003e (1917) and went on, across six decades, to produce some fifty books of fiction, travel, and biography. \u003cem\u003eThat American Woman\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a remarkably busy stretch, with several books published in 1932 alone. A witty, worldly novel about a young English writer who falls in love with the wife of a New York millionaire, its scenes move between New York, London, and Villefranche on the Côte d'Azur — the same circuit Waugh himself was travelling that year, as he later recalled in his memoir \u003cem\u003eA Year to Remember: A Reminiscence of 1931\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-121\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waugh, Alec","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459955151009,"sku":"TO-2026-121","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-121_01.jpg?v=1784602614","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-121","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}