GRENADINE ETCHING: Her Life and Loves.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ruark's first novel, a send-up of historical fiction, published shortly after World War II when he was a popular syndicated columnist, and almost 10 years before the book by which he is best known - "The Old Man and the Boy." This begins with Grenadine's strange birth in antebellum New Orleans French Quarter and follows her equally strange life. 270 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with red lettering in a fair only dustjacket with rubbing and edgewear, some loss at the ends of the spine, sunning to the spine, but a tight copy with the original price of $2.75 on dj flap.
Book ID: 92660
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