Scully (Robert) [Robert McAlmon] - The Scarlet Pansy.

The Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully. Second edition, 8vo, 223[1] pages, 20.5cm, Royal Publishers, New York, (1949)

Grained blue cloth with black spine titling. Grey laid paper dust-jacket, titled in black with three pansies handcoloured (?) in red. Very slight chips at top and tail of spine, else fine in like dust-jacket.

A gay novel originally published in 1932 - a very rare book. The author, Robert Scully, is the pseudonym of author/poet/publisher Robert McAlmon (1895-1956), who typed and edited Joyce's "Ulysses."