Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
by Sorel, Edward
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1631490230
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490231
- Seller
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About This Item
New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. Cloth, 167 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1936 newspapers were ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring the actress Mary Astor; the story pushed Hitler and Franco off the front pages. George S. Kaufman, then the most successful playwright on Broadway and a married man to boot, had been Astor's lover. The scandal revolved around Marys diary, which her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, had found when they were still together. Mary, he claimed, had not only kept a tally of all her extramarital affairs but graded them-- and he already alerted the press in order to obtain a divorce and get custody of their daughter. Sorel provides all the juicy details of this particular slice of Hollywood Babylon, including Mary's life as a child star, and her teenage love affair with the much older John Barrymore." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121539
- Title
- Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
- Author
- Sorel, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1631490230
- ISBN 13
- 9781631490231
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 2016
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film, TV, & Video / Film / Performers; XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Illustrated Books; Film, TV, & Video / Film / History & Criticism;
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