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They Thought They Could Buy It

Carman, Dorothy Walworth

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #14723

Tone with foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First Edition, First Printing of this "tough minded examination of suburban materialism." Well-written dissection of suburban New York couples dealing with success and financial failure, infidelity, keeping up with the neighbors, knowing the latest trends and conforming to social expectations at the end of the Roaring Twenties. ; 312 pages.

Price: $39.95