Hugh Mills Prudence & The Pill First Ed. and similar items

PRUDENCE AND THE PILL By Hugh Mills. New York: Harper Row, Publishers, (1966). First American edition. 1966 date to the title page, $2.95 and date code 466 to the jacket's flap. Adapted by Hugh Mills to the Deborah Kerr and David Niven starring 1968 Twentieth Century-Fox film. A delightfully humorous novel featuring a middle-aged man who, when he discovers his platonic wife's birth control pills, discreetly exchanges them for aspirin. This results in his wife, sister in law, niece, mistress, and the maid all becoming pregnant, and each proclaiming their achievement to be desirable and clever. A presentable first edition gift. Tight in near fine smoke-gray linen-boards with bright violet cupid dropping a pill bottle art to the front cover and with violet titles to the spine, upper page edges violet; in a near fine dust jacket with a depiction of a red heart and a cupid holding and dropping pills by Robert Hallock to the front and rear panels, light rubbing to the rear panel, slight fading to the spine panel and nicks to the upper spine edge; original printed $2.95 price and date code 466 still intact to the front inner flap. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION FICTION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.