Robert Benchley, Signed (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. NY: Hastings House, 1978. Signed by the Author on the half-title page. Very Good large format paperback. 191 pages. Light handling; no writing or marks. ISBN: 0-8038-5058-1. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second Edition. 192 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Laminated pictorial boards. Slightly bumped top corners, else as issued. Signed by author on half-title, with what appears to be a separate gift inscription on the same page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on half title page. Previous owner's name and blind stamp on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has a 1&1/2 inch tear at bottom front edge, a 1/2 inch tear at top back edge, and a few spots on back panel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 3rd Edition. signed on Dwight Fiske, , on edition page Third edition , 1933 Very good book in poor dust jacket Rear panel jacket missing edge in plastic cover, . Rear panel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. 1st. Signed presentation by Benchley on free endpaper "To Harold Davis with many thanks for buying this book. Gratefully, Robert C. Benchley / 'So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom'-anon. " Quite nice copy with only very minor wear. No jacket. Author's first book. Signed. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Fine in Fine DJ. With a forward by Howard Dietz. Inscribed by Dietz to the "First Lady of Radio" Mary Margaret McBride: "For Mary Margaret with friendship and admiration Howard Dietz." An absolutely gorgeous copy with a lovely association. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Musical score by Bowen Barker and Reginald C. Foster. Lyrics by James C. Savery. Tall octavo. 63pp. Frontispiece portrait photograph of the costumed cast. Papercovered boards with printed paper labels. Some rubbing and light spotting on the boards, a very good copy. Warmly Inscribed by Savery to Eugene Wyman. Among the featured players (both in roles as women) were Robert C. Benchley ("Miss Mayme O'Brian, a hairdresser") and Kermit Roosevelt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. Drawings by Gluyas Williams. Signed by Benchley. Signed.

First Edition. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. INSCRIBED, DATED AND SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. "For Billie Allen / in memory of many / happy hours on the / shore of Lake Como / Robert C. Benchley / Dec 20, 1921." Light soiling and cloth edges slightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Signed.

Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. 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." Movie star 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. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Gluyas Williams. Modest age-toning on the spine and edge of the rear board, tiny tears at the crown, very good without the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "Dear Adèle: This is for you. Bobby. November 15, 1932." Adèle Lovett was a glamorous socialite, a B player in the Algonquin Round Table, a friend of Dorothy Parker's, and reportedly the lover of Robert Benchley. The intimacy of the inscription is telling; we've never before seen Benchley inscribe a book as "Bobby.".

First edition. Original green cloth, very good, in lightly worn price -clipped dust jacket, chipped at the top (supplied from another copy). Inscribed "For Madeleine, among other reasons, because she lent class to this book by reading it aloud. Uncle Bob Benchley with love, (and a fur-bearing pen). September 30, 1936". There are a few pencil marks in the Table of Contents, probably marking the pieces that Madeleine Carroll (for she was the presentee) read. In addition, Benchley has corrected and initialled in pencil the last line of page 1, and noted his "author's correction very valuable"; a pencil strike over edits a weak paragraph in that piece, and there are a few other light pencil marks on passages in pieces that were themselves marked by a lightly turned-down corner.

Fifth edition. 8vo., vii, 304 pp., b&w drawings, with added gelatin silver photographs pasted-in. Publisher's cloth with paper spine label. Worn, with drink ring on the front cover. Gift inscription, Christmas, 1943 on the front fly leaf. Corporal Robert G. Rohner, Headquarters and Service Company of the 84th Engineer Battalion, U. S. Army, was gifted this Robert Benchley book for Christmas during his service in World War II. He proceeded to use the book as an album to collect names, home addresses and photographs of members of his Army unit. He used the accompanying unit roster, a single mimeograph sheet, 8 x 13 inches, dated May 1944, to record by check marks and page numbers those members whose signature, address and sometimes photograph appear on the blank spaces, pages between chapters and endpapers; the roster is brittle and partially cracked at the center. Of the 104 names on the roster, 73 have been checked. The 53 pasted-in photographs vary in size from postage stamp size to 3 1/4 x 5 inches. The 84th Engineer Battalion participated in the European Campaign in Italy, Southern France, Alsace and Central Europe.

No Binding. Condition: Good. in black fountain pen ink on Famous Players-Lasky Corporation Paramount Pictures West Coast Studios letterhead. 4to. 1 page, Hollywood, Wednesday [ca. 1935]. To Mrs. Hermann Hagedorn: "Dear Mrs. Hagedorn: My importance here is so great that the mail dept. didn't know that I was in town, and yesterday, after frantically inquiring why I had received no mail from home since I arrived, I was handed a big pile of letters that they had been saving for me. Among them, for no good reason, was your note asking me to Herman's party last Sunday. You must have thought me very loose, not ever to have answered it. As a matter of fact, I was in Santa Barbara on the weekend and didn't return until yesterday; so I couldn't have come, but it was awfully nice of you to ask me and I hope that I may see you all soon. I called up 'Sconset' on the telephone last night and have all the island news. Sincerely." Hagedorn (1882-1964), American novelist and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Schweitzer. Inscribed by Author(s).