Portrait of Jennie - Robert Nathan 1940 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Edition The basis for the 1948 William Dieterle film starring Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones, which won academy award for special effects, and was nominated for Best Cinematography.

The supernatural love story of a depression era artist in New York and a young girl slipping through time’, a modern Dorian Gray...

‘So brilliant is Nathan's execution that one is entirely lost in the tender love story of two immortally designed for each other, one a spirit out of the past seeking to catch up with the present, the other a man rooted in the present and caught in an urgency to accept the gift of the past . . .
Portrait of Jennie will perhaps most vividly recall Balderston's Berkeley Square, for, like that, it is a love story that transcends the boundaries of time. It is told with tenderness and with beauty. Its mood lingers in the heart, and its planes challenge the mind.’ – New York Times.
  Octavo (book size 20.7x14.6cm), pp. [8] 212 [4]. In publisher’s pale-orange buckram, spine lettered and blocked in black, publisher’s logo in black to rear board, stylised initials to front board in black, top edge tinted black, others untrimmed. Dust jacket priced ‘$2.00 net’ to upper corner of front flap. Copyright ‘1940’ blacked out by hand to copyright page as usual.   Condition: Fine in very good jacket, some rubbing to folds and corners, fading to red lettering on spine, small areas of soiling to rear panel.   Ref: 110716   Price: HK$ 3,000