[Rarebooks] FS: Dorothy Parker's first book in dustwrapper: "Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses"

[Charles Agvent]

PARKER, Dorothy ENOUGH ROPE
Boni & Liveright New York 1926 First Edition.  Her first solely-authored 
book containing such gems as the couplet that helped to bring about the 
contact lens industry: "Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear 
glasses."  In the scarce dustwrapper that has a 3/4" chip at the base of 
the spine and a jagged 4" by 1-1/2" chip at its deepest on the bottom of 
the rear panel which in no way affects any text.  The front panel is 
also cleanly separated at the spine edge.  About Fine in a Good example 
of the scarce dustwrapper.    $600.00
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