20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR DAVID COPPERFIELD
-Signed Later Printing of the First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-
1928 (1929)
First American Edition (Fifth Printing)
Harper & Brothers [New York]
8vo (233 pages)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Ochre cloth]
Item Number: 212857
$750.00
Description
This very good copy of the Fifth Printing of the First Edition issued in 1929, here without dust jacket, is signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Dear Douglas Jr. I must have written this book, because it has my name in it. Whoever wrote it, it is yours. Bob Benchley.”
Movie star Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the front free endpaper, opposite the title page. Save for some light fraying to the cloth at the spine head and faint rubbing at the tail, the book is virtually mint. The contents are fine, with glue transfer from the bookplate to the front pastedown illustration.
Robert Benchley and Douglas Fairbanks were close friends and drinking buddies. Fairbanks’ library contained personalized signed copies of most of Benchley’s books. This is one of them.