Muriel Elwood So Much As Beauty Does First and similar items

SO MUCH AS BEAUTY DOES by Muriel Elwood. New York: Liveright Publishing Company, (1941). First edition. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author to the front end-paper. By the Ojai, California art galley owner, creative writing instructor, and historical and western author of HERITAGE OF THE RIVER, and TOWARDS SUNSET. Set in the early 1800s, this historical novel employs actual people, their lives and real events. With the backdrop of Napoleon conquering Europe and the Royalist Bourbons returning to France, the story features the love, difficult courtship, and idyllic detailed domestic married life of English Amy Brown and King Louis XVII's son Duc le Berry. Great wedding gift. Light rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, else near fine in blue linen with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with lovely pastoral art, with nicks, tiny tears and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and with some short creased tears to the shelf-edges. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FICTION BOOKS THANKS!