The Gorgeous Hussy

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; [4],549pp. Light wear to cloth margins, spine gilt rather dulled, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy, albeit lacking the rare jacket.

Historical comic novel adapted into the 1936 film of the same title directed by Clarence Brown and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. Adams was also the author of the short story "Night Bus," which became that crown jewel of pre-Code romantic comedies, "It Happened One Night.