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"Love Girl" 1931 EDGINTON, May (SOLD)

May Edginton (originally Helen Marion Edginton, 20 December 1883 – 17 June 1957) was an English writer who had over 50 popular novels published in London. She also wrote plays, collaborating with Rudolf Besier on two of them. Some of her fiction works were filmed.

[256] pp.

The Macaulay Company

1931

7 3/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by Peter Driben

Risque 30's novel about a young woman whose father uses her to cozy up to directors. What a journey this book has taken starting in the depths of Depression-era Hollywood to the present day "Louie, the Love Girl, has just discovered the thrill of being a beautiful woman in a world of susceptible men. But her money-mad father dangles her in front of wealthy directors and Louie's romances get in a jam when several other men are entranced…"