San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, (1951).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. Second edition (with changes). Toning in the gutters, else near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with numerous chips along with an archival tape repair on the top edge of the front panel. Warmly Inscribed by the author using the whole front fly: "Dear Joe Webb: The is the #1 copy of the 2nd printing of The Blonde Heathen – I am anxious for you to write your novel. You are a writer of parts. I appreciate your generous review of The Blonde. Sincerely, Jim Allen Savage, Jr." Laid in is a Typed Letter Signed by Savage to Webb enumerating the changes in the second edition, and the interest he's had from Hollywood. Novel of a soulless heathen blonde in the harem of a Sultan, her interaction with an American military officer, and her reemergence as a spy in WWI. Despite the author's enthusiasm, we could find no evidence this was ever filmed. Although it has all the elements... Savage was Oklahoma-born, fought for General Uribe in the Columbia insurrection, joined the American soldiers fighting the Moro in the Philippines as an intelligence officer, served as a spy in WWI, operated a radio station in Mexico during WWII, was imprisoned by the Mexicans, and escaped across the Rio Grande with $70,000 and the manuscript of this novel, which he wrote in prison. Blurb by General Jonathan Wainright (of Bataan Death March fame). Scarce. *OCLC* locates only five copies of any edition.
Item #367642
