74740X1 First Edition (Unstated. Blond & Briggs, London: 1982. 270 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Adah Isaacs Menken was America's first great international sex symbol, but no one ever really knew the person behind the facade. Mankowitz retraces the remarkable lady's travels and adventures, both real and unreal, fiction and fact. His elegantly written biography includes documents and autobiographical writings of Menken's never before published, an anthology of her poetic and prose works never before reprinted, and a remarkable collection of photography, drawings, cartoons, and playbills. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0856341193 $14.20USD
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