Tampico
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
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Hardcover. First edition. A small bookstore label on the front pastedown, fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny chips. Undercover agent in an oil-rich sheikdom seduces wife of oil executive. Basis for the 1933 Irving Cummings-directed film *The Woman I Stole*, featuring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, and Noah Beery. A very nice copy.
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Joseph Hergesheimer
birth name: Joseph Hergesheimer
born: 2/15/1880
died: 4/25/1954
Biography
American author whose novels are typically concerned with the decadent and sophisticated milieu of the very wealthy. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore