Sunday, March 16, 2008

Vixens Gone Wild (in 1491, no less)


I love the cover art on old pulp fiction books. I found this one, published in 1954, at an antique store in Lynchburg for a dollar. At that price, how could I resist? 

Here are some highlights from the dust jacket copy: "Men called her a witch and a wanton. Certainly the Lady Janet Kennedy, nicknamed Flaming Janet, bewitched King James of Scotland no less than her first lover, the Lord of Lochinvar. Ambitious, willful and as fiery as her nickname—here is a romantic heroine in the grand manner... When for a wager she bathed nude in the Black Loch in the dark of the moon, there were those who said she had sold herself to the devil; her family in haste betrothed her to Gordon of Lochinvar, slow of wit, heavy of body."

So it goes.

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