Coconut Oil. June Triplett’s Amazing Book Out of Darkest Africa! As Told to Corey Ford
signed first edition
1931 · New York
by FORD, COREY (JUNE TRIPLETT)
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. First Edition. Signed presentation copy from Corey Ford as June Triplett, to playwright Marc Connelly and his wife inscribed: For Marc and Madeline Connelly, In memory of one glamorous hour on the African veldt. Gratefully, June Triplett per Corey Ford.” Connelly was a founding member, along with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker, and others of the literary group known as the Algonquin Round Table, and is best known for his biblical fantasy The Green Pastures and for The Farmer Takes a Wife, in addition to his many successful collaborations with George S. Kaufman. A lightly used copy with some darkening to the spine with some tiny tears and a bit of fraying at its top and bottom and with some light wear to the extremities in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping. A campy literary spoof illustrated with black & white photographs and photograph collages of the explorer/adventure genre with a comic cast of characters including “Chester Drawers, the expedition’s professional stowaway”, Britches, Ego, the Missing Link, Harry Ape, and others. Also, notably posing as characters in the book are famous aviatrix Amelia Earhart as one of the expedition’s pilots and entertainer Jimmy Durante as Scarface Jimmy, June’s smiling trainer and crack wildlife hunter, and Jack Dempsey as the chimp. (Inventory #: 11227E)