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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
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 pastedown. Save for some fading to the cloth, more pronounced along the spine and faint scattered light stains, the book is virtually mint and the contents are fine. There is a delightful vintage bookshop sticker affixed to the rear endpaper from “The Hollywood Book Store opposite Hollywood, Hotel, Hollywood, California.”
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.