Dick Button on Skates -- inscribed book with a Typed Letter Signed

London: Peter Davies, 1956. hardcover. very good/very good(-). 217 pages, large 8vo, blue cloth (uneven fading on the spine), dust wrapper (worn and chipped). London: Peter Davies, (1956). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.

Inscribed on the dedication page to fellow skater Aja Vzanova: "For Aja - the love of my life!! Dick xoxoxoxo New York, October 8, 1986." Accompanied by a typed letter signed "Dick" on Button's personal letterhead, 1 page, 10.5 x 7.25 inches, no place, September 27, 1983, in full: "Dear Aja Vrazanova Zanova-Steindler (known to the rest of the world as Mrs. Paul Steindler), You are indeed the most spectacular, longest legged, delightfully nutty, slightly wicked, ever intriguing, best looking, most sought after, deliciously special, incredibly sexy, and most important contributor to any evening's success. You have only one problem. Why don't you get that dipstick of a husband of yours to buy you something other than that old, ratty, moth-eaten, white rabbit skin? (Just kidding, I knew all along it was rat fur!) Come to think of it you probably would look even better if you wore nothing. Thanks for always cheering me up. My love to you both." Two horizontal folds and in very good(+) condition.