THE TREASURER’S REPORT & Other Aspects of Community Singing
-Signed First Edition Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks-
1930
First American Edition
Harper & Brothers [New York]
8vo (345 pages)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Black cloth]
Item Number: 212828
$850.00
Description
This very good First Edition copy, without dust jacket, is signed and inscribed on the title page: “For Young Doug, without whose cooperation this book was written. Bob Benchley.” Douglas Fairbanks’ elaborate crested bookplate is affixed to the second 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.