All Flags Flying: Reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes by Keyes, Frances Parkinson, and Keyes, Henry W (Afterword by) - 1972

McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1972. First edition. No print line.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has spine end chips, a few other short tears. DJ surface sealer beginning to separate.. 1 Ornate tapestry-style decorated jacket w/ author B&W portrait, front. Leather-like ornately decorated spine cover, black cloth over boards. 655 p. B&W center photo section. The second volume of prolific author Keyes autobiography, the completion of which was interrupted by her death in 1970. The first volume, 'Roses in December', was published in 1960. This volumes picks up her memoirs with her marriage in 1904 to Harry Keyes, and its theme is her unrelenting struggle and ambition to write, to establish a career for herself. Her life was a full, active life, traveling and writing for magazines, being a Senator's wife and reporter in Washington, and enjoying her home near the Connecticut River in Vermont. Her list of novels is extensive, Life Magazine once calling her the 'Queen of Fiction'.