signed first edition Hardcover
1940 · Boston
by De Vries, Peter
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Presentation copy, inscribed by Peter De Vries to editor and publisher William Targ on the front flyleaf, with Targ's bookplate to the front pastedown. The author's first book. A prolific writer, De Vries (1910-93) joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine at the insistence of James Thurber and worked there from 1944 to 1987, writing stories and touching up cartoon captions. Illustrated by Charles Addams. Octavo. Original cloth binding, with black stamping. Some very minor edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.
(Inventory #: 74874)