These Charming People: Being a Tapestry of the Fortunes Follies Adventures Gallantries and General Activities of Shelmerdene That Lovely Lady Lord Tarlyon Mr. Michael Wagstaffe Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and Some Others of Their Friend

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 2nd pr., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, 302 pages. Early American edition ("B" on copyright and no publisher's colophon). Interconnected short stories, and basis for a 1931 film of the same name, directed by Louis Mercanton. "The author calls his book 'a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries of a certain lovely lady and her friends and companions in this tale.' ... Mischievousness, then, is the delicate and all-important ingredient in this account of some fashionables of Mayfair." A collection of interconnected short stories (a few with fantasy/horror elements), it was published in England in 1923, a year before Arlen's sensational best-seller "The Green Hat," which vaulted him to international fame and fortune. Lacks dust jacket, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.