Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. [vi], 340 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. (Title page dated 1941, matching copyright page, which publisher used for identification of first printings.) Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, well-rubbed and a little worn along edges, dampstain to verso of spine panel. A nice copy.
The feminist psychological novel that inspired the 1942 film by the same name starring Betty Davis as a spinster who becomes a libertine, directed by Irving Rapper. The author is also known for Stella Dallas. In her later years she was a mentor to Bell Jar author Sylvia Plath.