Rogues' Gallery: Profiles of My Eminent Contemporaries.
Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1943. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiii, 276pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with a number of small edge chips and one larger chip at tail of spine. Tight, attractive second printing, boldly inscribed on the front flyleaf "To Max Shallett, too / big a rogue for this one! / From his devoted public, /Frank Scully / Easter / 1948." Word portraits of W. Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Wendell L. Willkie, Trader Horn, Luigi Pirandello, Thomas Mann, Theodore Dreiser, Heywood Broun, Harry Bridges, Peglegs, Will James, Abbe Dimnet, Upton Sinclair, Frank Harris, Bernard Shaw, Jim Tuly and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Item #9738
Price: $45.00