Here Lies the Heart

by Mercedes de Acosta

$400 · Offered by Biblioctopus

New York: Reynal & Company, 1960. Uncorrected galleys, printed rectos only, ribbon bound in cardboard cover with applied paper label. Very good or better. Prepared for in-house use, usually only a few copies were made. Autobiography of a remarkable Cuban-American lesbian poet, playwright, and socialite reputed to have conducted affairs with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Alla Nazimova, Eva Le Gallienne, Isadora Duncan, Katharine Cornell, Maude Adams, and

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