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tyr_shadowblade
02-20-2008, 12:14 AM
Hey Y'all,

This is my first post . . . and it's a looooooooong shot. If you're not a rare book collector or are under 40 you might as well skip right over it.

QUESTION: Sometime between 1974 and 1977 a book was published -- author unknown -- HARDCOVER -- title was either Jane or Jill. Never saw dust jacket, but clothbound hardcover was grey with red foil lettering on the spine and the red foil imprint of a girl in a dress holding a razor on the front cover.

This way pre-dates "Splatterpunk", but it was an extremely graphic novel about a young lady who is repeatedly approached by sexual predators -- whom she dispatches slowly and brutally with a straight razor.

I've been checking Amazon, Bookfinder, and Alibris with no luck.

Has anyone ever heard anything about such a book?

Barring that, does anyone have access to OLD volumes of Books In Print from the mid-1970s in the basement of some rural library? OLD volumes of the magazine CREEPY would likely have it listed in its advertisments. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

colubrid660
02-20-2008, 09:04 AM
Maybe "Julia" by Peter Straub, idk I haven't read that one yet.

knife_fight
02-20-2008, 09:49 AM
definitely not "Julia", but it's what I thought immediately when I read his hypothetical titles. then I read what it was about and "Julia" is nothing like that.