Act of Darkness
New York: Scribner's, 1935. Hardcover. 368p., very good first edition, first printing with Scribner A and shield present, dulling to black cloth else very good in cloth boards and red titles & decorations.
Bishop, a friend of Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald (he was the inspiration for Thomas Parke D'Invilliers in "This Side of Paradise") based this novel on the true story of the rape of a Charles Town, West Virginia socialite.
Cat.No: 267466
Price: $95.00
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1930S,
Fiction, Novels, Prose, Literature,
Modern first edition,
rape, sexual violence,
US South, Southern States, American South,
West Virginia
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