Tag: Charlotte Jay

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

“A Book Is Best! Absolutely!”

Liz Broadwell

Jan 12, 2022

Presented without comment, jacket copy from the first American edition of Australian writer Charlotte Jay‘s thriller The Voice of the Crab (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), held in the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness at Penn’s Kislak Center (Schimmel Fiction 6057): A Book Is Best!Absolutely! It really is. […]
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Tag: Charlotte Jay

“A Book Is Best! Absolutely!”