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Wodehouse (P.G.) and Guy Bolton. Bring on the Girls!
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The Improbable Story Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1953.
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy from Guy [Bolton]. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.95.
Inscribed by Guy Bolton to ‘Sandor Ince’, presumably the Hungarian journalist, editor and publisher Sándor Incze, who was based in the US from 1938, where he published the Stage and Theater Arts periodicals.
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A very good copy; jacket worn at edges with some loss, small section of loss near spine.
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