The Most Beautiful Woman
by Sallo, Jacob
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vantage Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1955). First Edition. Hardcover. [a bit of wear and light bumping at spine ends, top front corner also very slightly bumped; jacket age-toned, with a bit of wear at extremities, small tears with slight paper loss at top of spine, small stain at bottom edge of rear panel]. A "strange and fascinating novel [about] an illegitimate child who becomes a modern Jezebel. Through the clever use of her angelic, innocent-seeming beauty, Edna Mae conquers, then destroys, all who cross her path. In Farmdale, town of her birth, she becomes notorious as the cause of a triple tragedy: the deaths of the doctor's son, of her youthful lover, and of his father -- all in one night." The Chicago-born author's idea of authentic, down-home Farmdale dialogue appears to have been primarily the substitution of "ya" for "you" at every opportunity; I suspect he'd never been much farther south than Garfield Blvd. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17545
- Title
- The Most Beautiful Woman
- Author
- Sallo, Jacob
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Dick Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Vantage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1955)
- Keywords
- Vanity Press, Small Towns
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- First Edition
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