Item #46336 The Reader's Digest Twentieth Anniversary Anthology. READER'S DIGEST.
The Reader's Digest Twentieth Anniversary Anthology.

The Reader's Digest Twentieth Anniversary Anthology.

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest Association, [1941]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Beige paper over boards with brown lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 123pp. Small line drawings. Very good/good plus. Abrasions to both pastedowns from jacket flaps; jacket edgeworn, scuffed and age toned, with some tiny edge chips and archivally closed (on verso) edge tears -- but complete and overall fairly attractive. Item #46336

A tight and nice first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "selection of the most outstanding articles published in The Reader's Digest during the past twenty years." A panel of a dozen literary notables made the final article selection, and this copy bearson front flyleaf choice autograph additions from two of that distinguished group: At top is a fine heavy stock 4¼" X 3½" card bearing the printed message "'So Long Until Tomorrow' / Sunoco News Voice of the Air" signed large and bold by LOWELL THOMAS, undated but likely of 1930s vintage; and tipped below this is an Autograph Note Signed from KATHLEEN NORRIS on a buff heavy stock 5" X 3" postal card, n.p., n.p. [postal cancellation Palo Alto, CA,18 April 1934]. Addressed to future notable Lincoln/Civil War Scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). "Dear Mr. Gates," she pens handsomely in black ink, "I'm sorry, but I was in China -- hence delay," signing boldly. Thomas (1892-1981) was a renowned journalist, author and professional traveler well known to film fans as the voice of "Movietone News" for many years and later host of television travel series. Norris (1880-1966) was a California newspaper columnist and for a half century one of the most popular, prolific and highly-paid novelists in the U.S., cranking out almost 100 novels between 1911 ("Mother," her first) and 1955 ("Through a Glass Darkly," her last).

Price: $95.00

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