** SCARCE NOVEL WITH RARE DUST JACKET AND ITS BEAUTIFUL COVER ART**

The Romance of a Million Dollars by Elizabeth Dejeans

Romance mystery with an exciting denouement and shocking ending that was made into a 1926 classic silent Hollywood movie.

Overall Condition: VG+/VG

Published in 1922 by Bobbs-Merrill in Indianapolis, Indiana. First edition, first printing in a rare, unclipped first state dust jacket with correct $1.75 price on bottom of front flap. In original red cloth covered boards with gilt decoration and red embossed lettering to top cover and spine. Octavo, 364 pages.

Frances Elizabeth Janes Budgett (December 27, 1868 – February 6, 1928), writing under the pen name Elizabeth Dejeans, was an American novelist. Three silent films were based on works by Dejeans. Dejeans wrote novels and short stories, mostly "popular female romances" focused on the New Woman and her modern problems. "Dejeans writes neither trash nor sensationalism," explained a 1912 reviewer, "but she does draw powerful pictures of the things that are not always pleasant to look upon." She was public in her support of women's suffrage. Two of her novels and one story were adapted for the screen: The Tiger's Coat (1920), Crashin' Thru (1923), and The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926).

CONDITION:

The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition - square binding with firm hinges and joints and tight pages. Light rubbing to spine tips and edges. Corners are sharp. Foxing to endpapers and top edge of text block. Former owner info in pencil on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Vertical cut and a gash to spine near title lettering else NEAR FINE.

The unclipped, and exceedingly rare, dust jacket is in VERY GOOD condition - beautiful cover art, some edge wear creasing, small tears and chipping. Heavy foxing with a stain to both sides of jacket along spine, dust soiling to all white jacket, some rubbing.

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