N. Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company 1924. First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. A superb association copy, a presentation copy from Gaston Lachaise to his friend and patron, Scofield Thayer, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To my friend Scofield Thayer Gaston Lachaise.” Thayer was a prominent collector and patron of the arts, and his collection included numerous works by Lachaise, including the sculpture “Standing Woman (Elevation)”, which was part of the Thayer bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thayer was also one of the owners/editors of The Dial magazine, with which Lachaise was associated after Thayer and James Sibley Watson purchased the magazine. In 1920, in the first issue under the new editors, Lachaise’s “Dusk” (1917) appeared as the frontispiece. 4to, original cloth-backed boards with printed labels, glassine dust jacket. A very fine unopened copy, in somewhat worn and chipped glassine, with the Thayer bookplate laid in.