FIRST LOVE. Marie Van Vorst, Grosset & Dunlap / The Bobbs-Merrill Company
(copyright), New York, 1910.
 
Fiction Novel
 
A young man falls in love with an older woman who refuses him so that he will marry someone his own age.
 
Marie Louise Van Vorst (1867–1936) was an American writer, researcher, painter, and volunteer nurse during World War I. Van Vorst and her widowed sister-in-law, Bessie Van Vorst, moved to France and co-wrote novels together. Marie Van Vorst also wrote regularly for Harper's Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and other national publications.
 
Gray with pasted color art illustration to the front (woman in red with fancy hat and a cane in her hand). Fairly nice with mild cover soil. Original owner's name at the front endpaper. About 7-3/4 x 5 with 330 pages plus several ads.