Sailors' Wives
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1924).
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition. Boards a little soiled and a faint sliver of staining along the bottom edge of the first several leaves, else near fine in an attractive, good or better dustwrapper with some chips at the spine ends and front panel. Jacket art by A.N. Simokin. A Jazz Age novel in which the heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live out her life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic pleasures. Basis for the 1928 silent film featuring Mary Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery.
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