All Kneeling

Anne Parish

Published by Harper and Brothers, 1928

About this Item

First edition.Pages clean with minor toning, binding tight, cloth boards clean, the from inside of the original dust jacket has been affixed to the backside of the first page. The author has an original drawing on the first page with an inscription to her dear friend Ann ThomasAnn Thomas, a radio, stage and television actress from the 1920's to the 1970's. Simplely reads "To Ann from Anne" Corners slightly worn. Anne Parrish (Mrs. Charles Corliss) wrote and illustrated children's books but is best known as a novelist. In All Kneeling, Anne Parrish tells the story of the beautiful Christabel. She had a sweet, sensitive soul that responded to the beauties of nature and poured itself out in lyric poetry. All who came into contact with her were captivated by her charm. No one suspected that beneath this spiritual sensitivity lay a deliberate strategy and that her every movement was prompted by a selfish aim, no one, that is, except Uncle Johnnie, whose unfortunate love affair rendered him cynical. After the publication of her first book Christabel found Philadelphia atmosphere stifling and came to New York, where, for a host of admiring great-aunts she substituted a crowd of impoverished young aesthetes who knelt before her in reverend worship. Her contrast of staid Philadelphia family life with New York bohemian circles has made an extraordinarily rich setting.

Seller Inventory # 500-9

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All Kneeling
• Publisher: Harper and Brothers
• Publication Date: 1928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)