1st Edition 1925. Hartley's first novel, it deals with the sexual infatuation of a young American woman toward a gondolier met during a Venetian holiday. This book has been called one of his "most distinctive and dangerous works". Book is very good++ and quite bright. Contents good with dusty page edges. Name to endpaper. The wrapper is near very good with loss to spine tips. Edges rubbed and nicked. Wrapper lightly soiled and marked. Rare in the wrapper.