Peggy Ware [inscribed & signed]

Howard, M. W. [Milford Wriarson]

Los Angeles: J. F. Rowny press, 1921. Hardcover. 350p., personal inscription signed and dated Los Angeles, May 5th 1922 by the author, untrimmed edges, bumped corners and shelfwear, first edition hardcover bound in blue cloth boards and gilt titles.

Howard was an Alabama Populist Congressman who moved to Los Angeles in 1910 in pursuit of a career as a novelist and screenwriter. In the 1920s he met Benito Mussolini and became a committed Fascist penning "Fascism: a challenge to democracy" and editing the right-wing, anti-New Deal, anti-Labor periodical "The Awakener". This novel is one of his early romantic efforts about a young woman and her family moving into a small town in Tennessee. Peggy ends up having a film made about her and going to Washington DC.

Cat.No: 335997

Price: $50.00