first edition Hardcover
1923 · New York
by KYNE, Peter B.
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Dean Cornwell. Some wear to the boards, very good plus in about very good dustwrapper with a narrow chip at the crown and some modest staining to the foot and rear panel. Basis for a 1925 Maurice Tourneur film, remade in 1931 with Leslie Howard, in the film which introduced him to MGM's star roster, as a wealthy business man who becomes guardian of Polynesian sexpot Conchita Montenegro. Scarce in jacket. (Inventory #: 54954)