The Pleasures of the Jazz Age - INSCRIBED Copy
19486150New York: Farrar Straus and Company 1948. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Poor. John Held Jr. dust jacket illustration. Large 8vo. Pp. 8 417. Introduction by William Hodapp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and green pattern stamped on spine. Cloth a touch worn. In the illustrated dust jacket faded and price-clipped that's defective: front panel and front flap detached; a third of the rear flap excised. Inscribed by William Hodapp on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads "To Jack too young to have known about all this so was I really thank God but a guy who I think would get a smile out of some of it - to remember '51. / Regards Bill". Inexplicably among the excerpts are those from Hitler and John Maynard Keynes. The dust jacket illustration by John Held Jr. is a cartoonish send up the 1920s a tuxedo-wearing swell holding an oversized cocktail shaker grins broadly while his flapper gal-pal shimmies. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable clear archival sleeve. Farrar, Straus and Company hardcover
