The Eighth Veil [*SIGNED*]

Garden City NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1981). Book Club Edition (1st hardcover issue). Hardcover. [a bit of crimping at spine ends, no other significant wear to book; the jacket is a little dog-eared at the top the spine, has some minor wrinkling and a touch of edgewear at the bottom of the front panel, and one itsy-bitsy surface-scrape on the rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "10/22/81 / For Hal -- / One of my most / favorite people / Best / Ellis." (The inscribee was Hollywood agent Harold Gefsky.) Historical novel set in the time of imperial Rome, centering on "the love story of a Jewish Zealot who becomes a Christian -- Daniel bar Dineas -- and a virginal princess who becomes one of the most infamous women in all history -- Salome, whose erotic dance before her stepfather, King Herod, wins her evil mother the head of the prophet John the Baptist." (The information on the copyright page suggests that this book may have been previously published in paperback by Bantam Books, although all the Bantam copies currently offered online bear a 1982 date.) Signed by Author .