The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups

Secaucus NJ: Birch Lane Press/Carol Publishing Group. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1998 (c.1997). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, as-new but for the faintest trace of foxing on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is flawless]. (color and B&W photographs) The "truth" about the "real" Bettie Page -- probably one of the most vivid fantasy figures our culture has ever produced. The author was the first reporter to contact and interview her after she had been out of the public eye for more than thirty years, and here tells "the compelling tale of Bettie's rise from her modest beginnings in Nashville and adds new insight into her stormy marriages, her trial for attempted murder, her descent into madness, and her decade-long isolation behind asylum walls." Foreword by Harlan Ellison. .