Lowndes Mars Belloc (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Special Edition. Octavo, 344pp., brown wrappers. The scarce publisher's Uncorrected Proof, preceding the first printing of the first edition. Novel about a notorious Scottish murder. Print runs for uncorrected proofs at this time were small, and survivals are scarce. Original wraps. Handwritten title faintly written on the spine. Some creasing, marking and wear to the spine and covers (please see pictures). Binding sound and square. Browning to page edges. A nice, honest example of this very scarce Uncorrected Proof. a psychological mystery loosely based on the real-life Madeleine Smith murder trial, about a young woman who gets away with poisoning her lover. The book was famously adapted into a 1932 pre-Code film starring Joan Crawford & Robert Montgomery, which became famous for the iconic "Letty Lynton dress" designed by Adrian, and for its legal issues that made it hard to see for decades finally premiering at the TCM film festival in April 2026. The book was loosely adapted again as The Dishonored Lady in 1947, which starred Hedy Lamarr. …