The Stranger; a novel of the Big Sur [*SIGNED*]

New York: William Morrow and Company. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremities, slight fraying at lower corners]. (illustrated endpapers) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Gertrud Boheen(sp?) / from a happy author / Lillian Bos Ross." (And below that inscription is another, when Ms. Boheen passed the novel along to another: "To Frank E. Brady / from Gertrud." Novel, set in the 1870s, that tells the story of a rugged man of action and his mail-order bride. The author's first novel, it's not only a key work of California fiction, but it also had a profound effect on the life of the writer who would come to be most identified with the Big Sur region, Henry Miller. Miller read the book a few weeks after first coming to the area, and years later he wrote: "Till then I had been only a visitor. The reading of this 'little classic' ... made me more than ever determined to take root here." A movie version (retitled ZANDY'S BRIDE), starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann, was released in 1973. (Baird & Greenwood 2136) Signed by Author .