BEHOLD THIS WOMAN - INSCRIBED TO AYN RAND

by David Goodis

$10,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. The Philadelphia author's third novel, a bizarre paean and cathartic payback to his estranged wife, Elaine Astor. The novel tells the story of Clara Ervin, a manipulative, calculating, and cold-blooded woman who systematically emasculates and ruins her husband, as well as several other men, before meeting a violent death. We know of but a handful of books

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