[publisher: William Morrow & Co., New York] Hardcover First Edition First Edition (SD, NAP). Once listed, this will be the Only original first edition for sale on the Internet. Actually it's the only William Morrow & Co. edition, first or otherwise. The only other copies are a few mail order book club Literary Guild editions. All the more remarkable for a book that was so very highly regarded. Here are excerpts of reviews from well-known writers of the time: Ellen Glasgow-- 'The whole modern approach to life, with its eagerness, its lightness, its disenchantment, its feeling for the moment as it passes and because it passes, its joy but not too much joy, its pain but not too much pain, its courage in the face of time, its secret loyalties of the heart, and yet, somehow, somewhere, its lack of the state or quality of mind Spinoza called 'blessedness'--all this is woven here into a pattern that seems as real as the hour in which we are living. Never Ask the End is a book of delicacy, charm, and truth, interfused with the something different that is personality.' James Branch Cabell, Saturday Review: 'Mrs. Paterson has made, in Never Ask the End, a book which any tolerably civilized American must regard, throughout, with a sort of charmed squirming. Of those of us Americans, reasonably cultured, who have today reached responsible middle life, here is an honest portrait, all the honest will admit perforce.' And 'Never Ask the ...
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W. Morrow & Co, Date: 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1933. W. Morrow & Co [US]

[publisher: the literary guild, New York] Hardcover Very nice book and jacket Rare Literary Guild edition 1933 Previous owners name inscribed on inside cover.
[Zanesville, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1933]

W. Morrow & Co Hardcover Fair Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.