Macy Dora (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (patterned cloth; no dust jacket) [nice copy, slight fading to spine cloth, a couple of tiny stains on front cover; M-G-M Script Dept. label on front endpaper, also stamped "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City"] One of this many "scandalous" novels by this author, who also wrote as Grace Perkins and Grace Perkins Oursler (her married name; her husband was Fulton Oursler, author of "The Greatest Story Ever Told"). At this stage of her career, she was just about the perfect "pre-Code" writer, with several of her books having served as the basis for some of the racier movies of the day -- notably MY PAST (1931, based on her anonymously-penned "Ex-Mistress") and NIGHT NURSE (1931, from her novel of the same name). This one starts with a terrific 8-page "Preamble" -- "which may be read at the start or the finish or completely ignored" -- which decries the looseness of women in modern society. ("Prostitutes and actresses set the style. Not that the two groups can be mentioned in the same breath except as one would say that pickles and cucumbers are both good side dishes.") Although not marked as such, this copy is from the personal library of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson, who I guess took it home from the Script Department and just ignored the "Please Return" label.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A sturdy, square vintage copy in faded, lightly soiled green boards with gilt lettering partially rubbed away. Internally unmarked with some light soil to rear endpapers. RARE title, and the basis for the great pre-code film of the same name starring Barbara Stanwyck and a young Clark Gable. All this book needs is the dust jacket!