BURNHAM, David (1907-1974). This Our Exile. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.

8vo. Original brown cloth gilt (a few tiny stains); dust jacket (some toning primarily to spine panel, slight chipping with a few short tears). Provenance: Donald C. Keton (stamp to front flyleaf).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with Scribner’s “A” and seal on copyright page. Burham's first novel follows the fall of a wealthy family after the death of its patriarch. The Jazz Age novel is complimented by the Art Deco dust jacket designed by Cleo Theordora Damianakes (also known as Cleon), who also designed dust jackets for Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men as well as Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and In Our Time.
Property from the Estate of David Green Jr.