Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (Was: Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating (1871) (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)

[George Thompson]

>From ABE:

        DAWN GINSBERGH'S REVENGE   PERELMAN, S. J.
        Bookseller: Crawford Doyle Booksellers  (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
        Book Description: Horace Liveright, New York, 1929. Hardcover. Second issue. A very good copy in silver cloth-backed embossed covers containing two overlapping hearts, butterflies and other designs, with red spine lettering. There is darkening at the spine and the extremities show light rubbing and tanning of the text block. No dustwrapper in this second issue binding (released the same month as the first), with numerous photos and illustrations. Perelman's first book, of which Groucho Marx said to the author, "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it." An off-broadway stage version appeared in the 1950s. Quite scarce. Bookseller Inventory # 2151

This will cost you $250.

Most of the 16 entries for this title are for a 2nd or 3rd printing, and have no dust-jacket.  The only one that does is also signed, and priced at $5,000
        Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge   PERELMAN, S.J.
        Bookseller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc., A.B.A.A.  (Boston, MA, U.S.A.)
        Book Description: New York: Horace Liveright, 1929, 1929. First Edition of the author's first book. In the presumed first binding; worn and chipped at the spine ends; a good copy in a worn and defective dust jacket.  ***

Perhaps one of our Boston residents could drop by Mr. Stern's shop and look at the dust jacket.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:43 pm
Subject: Re: Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating (1871) (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> At 11:22 AM -0400 5/16/10, George Thompson wrote:
> >The Beinecke is Yale UL's Special Collection, isn't it? Have they
> >put any of their stuff into storage?  But the catalog should say so.
> >An odd book for someone to steal from a rare book room.
>
> It could mean misfiled.
>
> In any case, there is another copy listed in ORBIS (the Yale
> e-catalogue) as being available in the regular collection at
> Sterling, with the indicated status "Paging Slip Request".  The
> Beinecke listing does suggest using Borrow Direct or Interlibrary
> Loan.
>
> LH
>
>
> >
> >A library's circulating copy of a 1929 book will have long since
> >lost its dustjacket, but there will be special collections focussing
> >on 20th C American lit which have books by Perelman.
> >If I can believe the NYPL's new catalog, the 42nd street library's
> >Berg Collectino has only one book by Perelman -- I think I don't
> >believe it.
> >The Fales Library at NYU is a likely place, but the NYU catalog has
> >called in sick this weekend.
> >
> >GAT
> >
> >George A. Thompson
> >Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
> >Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> >Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:56 am
> >Subject: Re: Quote: I shall lose no time in reading it: antedating
> >(1871) (Gladstone 1897) (Disraeli 1898)
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >>  Thanks, Garson, for more great stuff.  Note that the Beinecke
> >>  Library's copy of "Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge" is said in the
> catalog to
> >>  be "Unavailable," which probably means "Missing."
> >>
> >>  Fred Shapiro
> >>
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