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THE FACTS OF LIFE:
A Book of Brighter Biography Executed in the Manner of Some of Our Best or Best-Known writers, Scriveners & Scribes By W.H. Hanemann Illustrated by Herb Roth
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1930.
First edition, SECOND printing. Enhanced with thirty-three striking and hilarious illustrations. A collection of parody biographies, sometimes bitingly humorous, written about literary authors, playwrights, that also include rip roaring parodies of their characters and their works. Included are a Hemingway piece called A FAREWELL TO JOSEPHINE'S ARMS, and pieces on Mary Roberts Rinehart, Horatio Hornblower, King Arthur, and more. An important cultural parody. Fine in yellow linen with black embossed titles and vignette illustration to the front cover, and with black embossed titles to the spine; in a bright, near fine dust jacket with closed tears from the shelf edges; original $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 276 pages. Unusual in such fresh condition in dust jacket. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |