The Corioli Affair

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 1954. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 245 pp. light edge wear, corners bumped. dust jacket has a bit more edge wear; Once the violence broke out in Corioli, nothing could stop it. By torchlight and bonfire, the mob surged through the mid-southern town, swelling its ranks with the idle and curious, bursting into the square before the baricaed courthouse and prison... Many years later, there came into the hands of the Corioli Historical Society the diary of a woman of mystery, a celebrated actress on the New York stage. The Corioli Affair is the story of that diary revealed - the story of two strong and desperate people, victims od themselves and of a love that bound them together against the hostile world.