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Jenison, Madge : Invitation to the Dance

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1929

Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt lettering and small gilt decoration on spine. Original beige paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket has a color illustration and black lettering on front panel and black lettering on spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 7 3/4." 294 pages, complete. Printed by the Country Life Press of Garden City, New York. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for light rubbing and minuscule wear to corners and edges. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has slight overall darkening and a few small chips and slight wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. A novel by Madge Jenison (1874-1960), an American author, bookstore owner, and women's rights activist. Jenison was one of the owners and founders of The Sunwise Turn, a Modern Bookshop, which was based in New York. Jenison opened The Sunwise Turn with Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke in 1916. Notably, The Sunwise Turn was among the first bookstores in the United States to be owned and operated by women. At their store, Jenison and Mowbray-Clarke carried and sold books on subjects that interested them as well as paintings, sculptures, prints, and textiles. The Sunwise Turn became a meeting place for noted figures of the arts and letters including Peggy Guggenheim, one of the bookstore's interns, and Theodore Dreiser and Robert Frost, who participated in readings at the store. The Sunwise Turn remained open until 1927. Among Jenison's other books is her account of the early years of The Sunwise Turn, titled, Sunwise Turn: A Human Comedy of Bookselling (1923).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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