The Phoenix
By: by Constance M. Warren ; with frontispiece by Christine Tucke Curtiss.
Contributors: Curtiss, Christine Tucke, ill.; Houghton Mifflin Company,; Riverside Press,
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: March 1917.
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
First sentence: First paragraph:
The "Merry Widow" waltz was epidemic. A hurdy-gurdy, trundled along the Shore Road and into magnificent abutting precincts, disseminated it ruthlessly into the June air. The Italian in the harness, with eyes roving over promising windows, betrayed his malignance by jerks at the leash which had already scored his monkey's neck.
Notes: Verso of t.p.: Published March 1917.
Colored frontispiece.
Beige cloth stamped in gilt.