Never the Twain Shall Meet
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1923.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Dean Cornwell. Spine lettering tarnished and a little foxing to the foredge, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with excellent wraparound art by Cornwell. Basis for a 1925 Maurice Tourneur film, remade in 1931 with Leslie Howard, in the film which introduced him to MGM's star roster, as a wealthy business man who becomes guardian of Polynesian sexpot Conchita Montenegro. Scarce in jacket.
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