MY TEN YEARS IN A QUANDARY And How They Grew
-Signed Later Printing of the First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-
1936
First American Edition (Fourteenth Printing)
Harper & Brothers [New York]
8vo (361 pages)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Light Green cloth]
Item Number: 212858
$500.00
Description
This very good copy of a Later Printing of the First Edition, without dust jacket, is signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Dear Jr. This is one of my books which you bought, and thanks very much. Bob Benchley.”
Movie star Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the second front pastedown, opposite the half-title. Save for some fading to the cloth, more pronounced along the spine, the book is virtually mint and the contents are fine, with transfer toning to the front pastedown from Faribanks’ bookplate.
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.