OPPENHEIM, E Phillips. The Tempting of Tavernake. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1911.

First Edition. Edmund Frederick dustjacket art and illustrations. Uncommon Oppenheim novel listed as a marginal mystery in Hubin "of an unromantic Englishman [who] learns a few things about women and incidentally has some surprising adventures with an American detective". This copy in original illustrated dustjacket. Basis for the 1928 silent film, Sisters of Eve, starring Anita Stewart and directed by Scott Pembroke. Very Good in Good or Very Good dustjacket with moderate soiling, nicks and wear at front spine edge, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, few short closed tears, some chipping along lower half of front flap edge.

Price: $225.00