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Buy this book on-line MARX, GROUCHO: : The Groucho Letters - LETTERS FROM AND TO Groucho Marx.[Author SIGNED copy.]USA,NY.SIMON & SCHUSTER,1967. ISBN No ISBN.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED+dedicated, 1st edn.No owner inscrptn,but author's ink dedication and signature (pseudonym) to ffe: "To Groucho Richards from Hugo Z. Hackenbush." - dw/dj unclipped.Glossy white background with author's b/w portrait photograph to front+back wraps, black+red letters;with minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,a closed 1/2" tear to front wrappers top edge and some minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing,rubbing to head of spine/backstrip.Top edge lightly aged; fore-edge untrimmed and lightly aged also, contents bright tight and clean - no foxing/spotting.Slate grey paper-covered bds with facsimile,printed,red ink signature to upper bd's lower right-hand corner;pale grey cloth blind spine blocked in red with bright,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and plain white eps.Some very minimal,light sunning/fading to bd's upper edges.US,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,5-319pp [paginated] includes title-page,Arthur Sheekman introduction,10 chapters/sections.
Sections cover such subjects as Movie business,Private life, Touching on television,Groucho and other men of letters, Grouchy,Broadway and Hollywood, For publication,Friends abroad,the faintly political scene and Short shrift.
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The Library of Congress,which has just acquired the actual Letters Themselves,is not about to let you take them home to crush to your bosom with laughter and affection.The Library of Congress is no fool.But all is not lost! Happily, with the publication of this book, America's Groucho-lovers can have their own copies of the letters the world's only Groucho Marx has written over the years to great and small,to family,to friends,to complete strangers.And some of their answers. Obviously,there has never been a correspondence like it.No personnage too big,no nuance too small,no subject too far out for Groucho's spontaneous typewriter. He writes to comics and corporation presidents.And Presidents.He writes to his doctor.He writes to his daughter's boyfriend.
He exchanges ripostes with the greatest wits of our day (then 1967) and among those whose answers - giving as good as they get - have been included are E.B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber and S.J. Perelman.
Here,in sum,is Groucho at his Grouchoest - free,funny,ferocious,and dear - history's choice (maybe only) example of a truth-teller universally beloved.The gale that is Groucho is now wholly captured - bound but untamed - in The Grouch Letters.
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