THE PASSION OF GABRIELLE

First edition, first printing. Dust jacket and title page art by Lilly Hollander. Boylan, most famous for writing titles for silent films including WHAT PRICE GLORY, and for screenwriting and script doctoring more than ninety films and teleplays, also wrote three novels. In this third novel, the wordsmith employs his talents with dialogue, wit, and delightfully clever descriptions, piling on a potpourri of outrageously funny characters including a sultry power-hungry voodoo gal, a music-hungry priest, three types of spies, wacky tourists, folks running for a hotly debated election, and unusual Caribbean island residents. Small price-sticker to the upper edge of the inside front cover, else fine and fresh in beige linen over slate-green decorative wavy-striped boards with black titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with a minuscule surface nick to the lower shelf-edge and a small, white surface abrasion to the spine panel; original printed $3.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.…