Look Back in Love [biography of Frances Farmer]

by Elliot, Edith Farmer

First Edition

Price: $300.00
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Book desription: Sequim WA: Gemaia Press. (c.1978). First Edition. Softcover. [good tight copy, with a solid, uncreased spine; the only blemish is a very light stain on the bottom edge which has migrated a little bit onto the bottom of the front and rear cover; "FRANCES FARMER" hand-stamped on spine]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Uncommon and indispensible biography of Frances Farmer by her sister, privately published (reportedly in an edition of just 1,500 copies), more or less as a rebuttal to other books about the ill-starred actress. The author had apparently been a journalist herself, and it shows -- the book is coherently written, reasonably well-organized, and dense with detail (including the text of numerous letters sent by Frances to various family members). A necessary complement to the standard works on this tragic, troubled Hollywood figure, in particular her own posthumously-published autobiography "Will There Really Be a Morning?" (referred to by her sister as "an alleged autobiography, full of salacious lies and libelous fiction") and William Arnold's "Shadowland" (also published in 1978; still considered the more or less authoritative account, and the primary source for the widely-accepted but by no means ironclad allegation that Miss Farmer underwent a lobotomy while institutionalized in the 1940s, which is one of the points most vigorously disputed by Ms. Elliot). Whatever its virtues and faults, the book is up front about its agenda: "This book has been written and published for one purpose only: to set the record straight, to correct the salacious lies, half-truths, defamation of character dealt our family members. What has happened to Frances, our parents, grandparents et al can happen to any family. There are no laws against defamation of the defenseless dead." This copy SIGNED (as were many) by the author on the ffep. [This book is featured on page 7 of ReadInk's new Catalog Number 1, "Objects of Obscure Desire," which is available upon request.] Signed by Author . Very Good+.

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