HOW TO BE FAMOUS, or The Great in a Nutshell.

24x18cm. First edition. The bare essentials of famous soloists, couples, families, groups, epochs, competitors, what-nots, and virgins. pp130(2) with full-page black-and-white comic illustrations. Original blue cloth, title etc in blue on white paper backstrip label. Backstrip a little sunned, label a little toned. Front cover slightly sunned towards edges, lower edge with single minor bump. Outer corners of covers slightly curled. No dust jacket. One leaf - pages 113/114 - with closely-spaced droplet-size tan spot and two tan specks confined to margins at upper outer corners, persisting with diminishing effect back to page 109 and up to page 120. Neat two-line gift inscription "To Captain & Mrs. Strickland January 1942 / The Morning Tea was Grand" on front flyleaf. Edges of text-block a little toned, top edge also lightly dust-marked. Generally clean and tight. GOOD copy.