INSCRIBED FROM JOAN CRAWFORD TO HUSBAND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR
Memoirs of Napoleon I, Compiled from His Own Writings.
New York: Duffield and Company, 1929.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
288pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED FROM JOAN CRAWFORD TO HUSBAND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR. Original blue cloth, a little rubbed and bumped at spine tips and corners. Very Good. With bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks on the front paste-down.
Item #316482
From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., decorated naval officer of WWII, and royal of Hollywood's Golden Era, credited in more than 50 films (including the starring role in GUNGA DIN)
It is inscribed to him by his first wife, Joan Crawford, using their newlywed pet-names: "To my Beloved Husband Dodo, Whom I love above life and every living thing. Eternally, Billie."
Initially, she found her husband's education and good taste inspiring, but she later recalled: "He mentioned books he'd read and I tried to devour Shaw, Ibsen, Proust and Nietzsche all at once. I read my way to mental indigestion." A great association copy, linking two cinematic legends.
