Vain Shadow
Chicago, Ill. Peoples Book Club, 1947. Hardcover. viii, 428 p.; 21 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title over red ornamentation. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Both dust jacket and endpaper illustrations are by John Alan Maxwell. Color title page illustration. Hartzell Spence is famous both as the author of One Foot In Heaven, the basis of the movie by the same name, and as the founder of Yank magazine, which originated the use of the term "pin-up." In this novel, he presents the adventures of the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Orellana, who discovered the headwaters of the Amazon in 1541. Book is in Near Fine Condition: corners slightly bumped. Dust jacket is in Good condition: edges and spine rubbed; 2-cm. tear at head of spine along front joint. Pages are clean and tight. An attractive copy of this historical romance. Fine / good. Item #000026
Price: $11.50