BOB HOPE'S OWN STORY, HAVE TUX WILL TRAVEL
Simon and Schuster: NY, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #22-2714
Illus. by Ted Sally, 8.5 x 5.75", green cloth backed gilt-lettered blue boards, 308pp with index, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and lightly worn, rear inner hinge cracking, textblock edges toned, toning in front of the book from bad glue, and in both the front and rear from old newspaper clipping (no longer there), former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Second printing, but INSCRIBED "To Louis / my best" AND SIGNED BY BOB HOPE ON FRONT FLY; ALSO (below Hope's Signed Inscription) INSCRIBED "Me Too!" AND SIGEND BY DOROTHY LAMOUR. The next two pages have mounted cards INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR PETE MARTIN, KARTHRYN CROSBY, AND ("Sincerely") BING CROSBY. THE HALF-TITLE PAGE HAS A MOUNTED CARD INSCRIBED BY DOLORES DeFINA (READE) HOPE (though this is half toned by old newspaper clippings). This collection in one book.
Price: $250.00