8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; dust jacket (few tiny creases and chips at extremities, else bright); folding case.

FIRST EDITION. BUtterfield 8 is a roman à clef loosely based on the life of Starr Faithfull, a socialite and flapper whose mysterious death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation, and whose diary O'Hara consulted regularly while writing the novel. It was the basis for a 1960 Academy Award-winning movie starring Elizabeth Taylor. Bruccoli A4.1.a.