O Rare Amanda! The Life of Amanda McKittrick Ros

First edition. SIGNED by the biographer Jack Loudan (1902-1976) to ffe. Publisher’s original purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. Off-setting from old newspaper clippings to pp.35-45 (clippings still present). With 8 b/w photographs (incl. frontispiece). In pink printed dust jacket, faded to spine and with one short closed tear to tail of lower panel. *** Biography of Amanda Ros, reputedly the world’s worst novelist. The signature is unconfirmed, but the book was acquired from a reputable seller and there’s no reason to think it is not authentic. No other signed copies of Jack Loudan books seem to exist.