The Pleasures of the Jazz Age - INSCRIBED Copy
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. John Held, Jr. (dust jacket illustration). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Pp. [8], 417. Introduction by William Hodapp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and green pattern stamped on spine. Cloth a touch worn. In the illustrated dust jacket, faded and price-clipped, that's defective: front panel and front flap detached; a third of the rear flap excised. Inscribed by William Hodapp on the front free endpaper. Very Good / Poor. Item #6150
Inscription reads, "To Jack, too young to have known about all this (so was I, really, thank God) but a guy who I think would get a smile out of some of it - + to remember '51. / Regards, Bill". Inexplicably, among the excerpts are those from Hitler and John Maynard Keynes. The dust jacket illustration by John Held, Jr., is a cartoonish send up the 1920s, a tuxedo-wearing swell holding an oversized cocktail shaker grins broadly while his flapper gal-pal shimmies. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $100.00