Black Oxen

A woman of fifty-eight returns to New York looking thirty after a Viennese rejuvenation treatment, and the young man who falls for her does not know. Atherton had the treatment herself; the novel was the best-selling book in America in 1923 and caused a national argument about ageing. This edition binds 57 plates of painting with the text, among them works by Giovanni Boldini, Henry Sargent and Ge...