signed first edition Hardcover
1942 · Garden City
by CHASE, Ilka
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Tear at the crown, modest wear at the edges of the binding, good or better in good dustwrapper with several moderate chips, front joint and mid-spine split. Bookplate of Katherine Cravens on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author: "To Kathryn Cravens - with sincere good wishes - Ilka Chase. Nov. 18 1943." Chase was an actress who made her fame on the radio in dramatic productions, particularly in Clare Boothe's *The Women*. The recipient, Kathryn Cochran Cravens, 1898-1991, was a radio personality, actress and writer from Texas was the first female news commentator to be broadcast from coast to coast. *Pursuit of Gentlemen*, her only novel, was published in 1951, the manuscript for which won first prize from the National League of American Penwomen in 1948. (Inventory #: 408239)