The Other Elizabeth
by Gregg, Jess
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dj
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Co., Incorporated. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1952). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [solid book, minor wear to spine extremities, small dent in top edge of rear cover; jacket a little edgeworn, light soiling, very shallow chipping at top of spine (no text loss); front panel of jacket appears to be somewhat rubbed or scuffed, although it might be part of the jacket design]. The first novel by this gay author (who was also, intermittently, a playwright and TV dramatist), jacket-blurbed as "one of the strangest love affairs of fiction: a tale of mounting suspense and eerie psychological fascination" (and likened to du Maurier's "Rebecca"). The story concerns a young woman who goes to Boston to ghost-write the memoirs of the Baroness Elizabeth von Schillar, "a notorious turn-of-the-century Boston beauty," now aged and debt-ridden. The third "character" in the narrative is the Baroness's long-dead husband, a promising painter who died less than a year into the marriage, and "the one subject the Baroness refused to discuss." Gregg, who died in early 2009, published several more books, including a late-in-life memoir, "The Tall Boy," but never really broke through to wide success. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16172
- Title
- The Other Elizabeth
- Author
- Gregg, Jess
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Warren Nardin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Edition
- 2nd printing
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Co., Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1952)
- Keywords
- Gay Author, First Novel
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