Stated First Edition Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book with bumped head and tail in jacket with chipps and small tears. Marginal toning. Pencil mark on the FFEP, gluestain typical to organic glues of the period.  

In Great Britain, where she lived, her books were promoted as by the Queen of Romance. We found no copies of this first edition available. The UK edition was printed in 1938.

A young brother and sister, left penniless, take jobs as host and hostess in a hotel run by decayed gentlefolk. They put pep into the place -- and get themselves fairly snarled up in wheels within wheels of harbored grudges and complexes rooted in the past. The hero is a woman hater -- but wins through to the girl he grows -- reluctantly -- to love, in the end.