Dance Without Music is illustrated by Mabel McDermott (?-?).
Stranger in the Little House has an illustration by someone well known to readers of this blog - Harlequin cover artist Paul Anna Soik (1919-1999).
Where is Jenny Now? - art by American George Sottung (1927-1999). Here is more on this novel.
Star Weekly Complete Novel - December 3, 1960
Star Weekly Complete Novel - September 11, 1948
I do like the illustration for Where is Jenny Now? "FIRST PUBLICATION ANYWHERE," I note. I wonder if it's complete or - as often seems the case with the Star Weekly - edited to fit.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the book edition but based on a quick estimate of the words in the Star Weekly edition my guess is yes. I estimate around 35,000 words vs 50,000 - 60,000 words in a 200 page hardcover edition.
ReplyDeleteI own a copy of the Herbert Jenkins edition. The page count is 192, with the actual text amounting to a dense186 pages. I estimate the word count to be 68,000. There are twenty-two chapters in total.
DeleteThat represents a lot of cutting, but nowhere near as much as Joan Walker's Repent at Leisure (Star Weekly, 5 October 1957, which had roughly 94,000 words when published by Ryerson.
Incidentally, I read Where is Jenny Now? several years back, thinking that it might make it as a Ricochet title. Sadly, it turned out to be one of her weaker titles. If interested, my review is on the Canadian Notes & Queries website.
Thanks. I've only seen a couple of issues that state the story has been cut. I have already updated the post with a link to you're review.
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