Sailors' Wives
New York: Boni & Liveright, (1924).
Price: $75.00
Hardcover. First edition. Bottom corners a little bumped else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with a few small nicks and tears and a small, light stain at the top of the rear 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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Samuel Hopkins Adams
birth name: Samuel Hopkins Adams
born: 1/26/1871
died: 11/15/1958
nationality: USA
Biography
American journalist and author of more than 50 books of fiction, biography, and expose. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore