BIRD OF PARADISE
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Norton, 1952. Octavo. Black boards, spine stamped in gilt, red top page edges. Spine gilt dulled, slight sunning to top page edges, nick at head of spine, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. Originally published London, 1912. Leverson wrote six novels between 1907 and 1916, and was published in Punch and The Yellow Book. She was drama critic for The Saturday Review between Shaw and Beerbohm. Wilde called her "the wittiest woman in the world".