Old Wives Tale - by Arnold Bennett 1936

Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett printed in 1936 in London as part of the Everyman Library collection is a lovely clothbound vintage book purchased from the Paris booksellers along the Seine River.  It is clothbound and still in good shape, considering it's age. It measures approximately 5x7, is bound in red cloth with gold embossed letters. 

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Bursley (modeled Burslem) and Paris. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Bennett was initially inspired to write the book by a chance encounter in a Parisian restaurant.