…marker. There are professionally repaired breaks to the outer joints, front and rear. The contents are fine, with an elaborate ink gift inscription and drawing on the front free endpaper….
This unique mint copy of the First One-Volume English Edition in the extraordinarily rare dust jacket is inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper: “To R. Randolph Bruce from…
…frontis photo tissue guard is missing from Volume I (present in Volume II). The tissue guard is also missing from the photograph of Lady Randolph Churchill after page 72. The…
…free endpaper.The book is virtually mint and the contents are fine, with transfer toning to the front pastedown from Faribanks’ bookplate. There is a charming vintage bookshop sticker affixed to…
…ink on the upper edge of the front free endpaper. Robert Benchley and Douglas Fairbanks were close friends and drinking buddies. Fairbanks’ library contained copies of most of Benchley’s books….
…Later Printing of the First English Edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The contents are fine, with a former owner’s dated initials discreetly inked and on the front free endpaper….
…are chips and small tears around the jacket edges and at the head and tail of the spine. The front free endpaper has been excised. The contents are otherwise fine….
…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….
…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….
A virtually mint copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed, inscribed and dated in green ink on the front free endpaper: “For Jacques, who caressed…
As-new copy of the First American Edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed and hand-dated “1992” by the author in ink on the front free end paper….
A very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket, signed by the author in ink on the front free endpaper.