copyright 1941; Houghton Mifflin Company publishers; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages except for inside front which has a small black strip (about 1 inch) and light residue from a very old small price sticker; no dust jacket.
 
from "About The Appleyards" -
Mrs. Appleyard is about as tall as the Venus de Milo and weighs a little more.  That is, of course, if the Venus were not made of whatever she is usually made of.  In Mrs. Appleyard's youth it used to be plaster of Paris and the Venus lurked in the dark corners of parlors on Overbrook Hill, looking strangely white against dark green cartridge paper.  The Markhams' Venus - Mrs. Appleyard was Susan Markham - got broken when they moved in 1904.  Mrs. Markham kept the head on the library mantelpiece with Mr. Markham's pipe, a Dresden potpourri jar containing tobacco, tow brass candledticks shaped like dragons, and a sepia photograph of Susan in her coming-out dress...