Family History

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1932. Appears to be later printing of US first ed. (No "First edition" statement). Octavo in pictorial red brushed cloth boards; dust jacket; 315 pages; 20 cm. Near fine(-) in about very good(+) dust jacket; inked signature to paste-down endpaper, else pages clean; deckle edge to textblock; binding tight; dust jacket light chipping to edges and corners; jacket is price clipped; jacket is protected in archival mylar. Hardcover.

An attractive copy of author's restrained, semi-autobiographical exploration of lineage, tracing successive generations to show how character and obligation are shaped by inheritance. Its chief merits lie in the clarity of its psychological observation, the elegant compression of family history into narrative form, and its subtle fusion of modern realism with an older genealogical mode, yielding a thoughtful meditation on continuity, limitation, and identity.