It is often cited as the best selling novel of all time. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. 'Valley of the Dolls' took the world by storm when it was first published over 50 years ago. Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann (1918-74), held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high powered industrialists and the jet set. Some spotting and time staining to endpapers and page fore edges, otherwise internally clean and tight, not price clipped (30/-), small previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, overall a reading copy only. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top quarter of back jacket torn away, corners rubbed with loss, some overall yellowing and time staining. First edition, second impression, published later the same month.
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