PARKER, Dorothy. Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham.
The Viking Portable Library: Dorothy Parker.
First edition of The Viking Portable Library: Dorothy Parker; lengthily inscribed by Dorothy Parker
New York: The Viking Press, 1944.
$1,600.00
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First edition of The Viking Portable Library one-volume compilation of the stories and poems of Dorothy Parker. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Fanny --- I wish there were other words but 'thank you', but I write them here a million times - To my friend, now and then and I hope for always - Fanny! April 15, 1944." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert F. Hallock. An exceptional inscription.
The Viking Portable Library one-volume edition of Dorothy Parker's stories and poems includes Here Lies: Laments For The Living, After Such Pleasures, Not So Deep As A Well, Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Death & Taxes, and five stories first published here in book form. "I can imagine no more intoxicating experience than to be reading Dorothy Parker for the first time" (Marion Sturges-Jones, Philadelphia Record).
The Viking Portable Library: Dorothy Parker.
$1,600.00
Out of Stock
