The Sling and the Arrow by Stuart Engstrand - 1947

New York, NY: Creative Age Press, 1947 Creative Age Press, New York. 1947. Hardcover. Stated 5th Printing. Retired lending library copy. Book is tight, has spine roll, and library stamps to front endpapers and an overstock (?) stamp on the textblock top. Book Condition: Fair; dust soiling to textblock top; soiling to top and bottom board edges; light wear to head, tail, and tips; DJ flaps have been glued to endpapers. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); DJ is a very old mylar with the edges trimmed; old sticker on front of DJ for lending library prices. Light green cloth boards and spine with red lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 354 pp 8vo. This is the story of Herbert Dawes, California dress designer, who unconsciously tries to kill his wife, Lonna, and is revealed to be a latent homosexual, and whose split personality-half- male- half female- leads him through a fairly tortured pursuit of a chippie (voyeurism here), to nervous hysteria and the crippling of an arm, to his taking up of a woman's work, and finally to his murder of Lonna, his attempt to escape disguised in woman's clothes... A sensational exploitation of scientific case history material, this is unnecessary. A presentable copy to fill a slot on the shelf of a collection.