Benchley by Benchley Robert: Signed (3 results)

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).…

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).…