The Glass Lady [*SIGNED*]

(no dust jacket) [worn copy, with a light dampstain down the right edge of the front cover, light bumping and slight exposure of boards at all corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Dear Louis Berg -- / I'm sending you this because / I'll never be able to say what I want / to -- because you healed my body / with your skill and with your / wisdom & your patient friendship / healed my spirit & my mind. / Asa Bordages." Rare-ish novel "set amid the tempestuous turmoil of New York's Greenwich Village," involving seven men struggling to come to terms with their past relationships with the (deceased) title character, the beautiful and enigmatic Helen Morceau. The author was later a combat correspondent with the U.S. Marines during World War II, and a newspaperman whose claim to (tiny) fame was having coined the term "Murder Inc." to refer to the New York gangsters of the 1930s and 1940s. (Regarding the inscribee of this copy: although I have no proof of this, it may well be the same Louis Berg who was the author of the novel "Prison Doctor" -- and who was, in fact, a doctor -- published the same year, and at least one other book I know of, "Devil's Circus.") Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: William Godwin, Inc.

Year: 1932

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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