Benet, Stephen Vincent. James Shore's Daughter. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1934. 

First trade edition [after the limited edition of 307]; pp 277; Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Publisher's black cloth, bright gilt decoration to the cover and lettering on the spine, blind stamped with handsome geometric pattern. 

FURTHER INFORMATION: KIRKUS REVIEW from 1934 A rather surprising book from the author of JOHN BROWN'S BODY. Prose, in the first place, simple, direct, and rhythmical in its sparingness. The setting -- New York of thirty years ago, Paris, Vienna, before and after the war, and quick flashes of America today. The characters -- James Shore, self-made, the victim of his own power, ambitious that his daughter shall sustain his position through bringing in the elements he could not supply; Violet, loving Garry, but not enough to take the chance of marrying him; Garry, with a sentimental mother who wrote sentimental drip, and a brother, who wrote out of the experience of living and dying, holding Violet throughout life as the one real factor in it, but accepting his defeat and carving out his own career. At the end, when it might have come right, it is too late -- the pattern is fixed. An essentially American story, in its basic premises; but the action takes place largely in Europe. It doesn't quite come through, but there is something very real and very vital in the novel, as one looks back from the last page. The market is -- perhaps -- the Ellen Glasgow type of reader. And Benet's name will be an open sesame. In addition to the regular edition there will be an autographed limited edition ($5.00), for which orders must be placed by March 1st. Extensive advertising.