ANOTHER MAN'S SHOES Beaton 1953 1st Ed INSCRIBED - Hollywood Mental Hospital
TITLE: Another Man's Shoes
AUTHOR: Betsy Beaton
PUBLISHER: New York: Henry Holt
DATE: 1953
EDITION: First Edition Stated.
DESCRIPTION: 311 p. 21 cm.
CONDITION: VERY GOOD/ACCEPTABLE Dust jacket is complete, but tattered: 4 inch spit at the front fold. Chipped at spine ends. Book is very good, with full but worn caps, bumped corners. Bold authorial inscriptions in preliminaries.
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A novel about a Holywood mental hospital and charming characters who dwell within.
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PROVENANCE: AUTHOR'S COPY. Signed on title page "Betsy Beaton Author's Copy" and again inscribed on dedication page "Nov. 19th, '54 With love to my Bet who's always been able to work that proverbial "mile in another man's shows to know why he goes where he goes." Betsy" An unusually creative inscription. Beaton is best known for her novel "Boy with the Green Hair", made into a 1948 RKO movie starring Dean Stockwell and Robert Ryan.
