THE QUEEN IS DEAD: A BOOK OF IMPERTINENT STORIES AND UNABASHED VERSE

by Jane Burr, pseudonym of copyright holder Rose Guggenheim

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Elliot Publishing Company, 1938 . Octavo, pp. i-viii ix-x 11-256, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Vanity-published collection of stories and short formless poems. Some deal rather frankly with sex -- though not as frankly as the subtitle might lead one to expect! Pasted to the beginning of the story, I'll Tell My Husband, is a slip of

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