Big Business Girl - Anon
ANON. Big Business Girl by One of Them. New York, Chicago:
A.L. Burt Company, n.d. [c. 1930]
Reprint, c. 1930 (first published by Farrar & Rinehart, 1930). Told against a background of saxophones, cocktails, Chicago big business and racketeering, this novel tells the story of Claire MacIntrye, an ambitious young college graduate, who sets out to Prohibition-era Chicago to become a career woman and make it to the top of the male-dominated business world. Big Business Girl was adapted into a 1931 film starring Loretta Young.
“She knew in that moment why women had turned away from domesticity to the world of their husbands and fathers and brothers had created. Homes had gone out but adventure for women had come in. […] She was young and the business world was full of unexpected delights. She was free and she could have everything.”
viii, 278. 8vo, original cloth. Chicago-themed bookplate to front pastedown. A very attractive copy in bright dust jacket (slight creasing and a couple of short closed tears to bottom of rear panel; one tear, neatly repaired with tape). This A. L. Burt edition in dust jacket closely matching the Farrar & Rinehart first edition.