first edition Hardcover
1926 · New York
by HERGESHEIMER, Joseph
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. First edition. Owner's name on front fly, light foxing on page edges, light spotting on cloth, very good in a fair to good only price-clipped dustwrapper with loss on edges, small stains. Undercover agent in an oil-rich sheikdom seduces wife of oil executive. Basis for the 1933 Irving Cummings-directed film *The Woman I Stole*, featuring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, and Noah Beery. (Inventory #: 457817)