[Rarebooks] FS: S. J. Perleman Inscribed to Elizabeth Taylor

[Charles Agvent]

One of a number of association copies, ranging from the curious to the 
outstanding, that will be included in our Spring New York Book Fair 
Catalogue to be posted on our website next week.  We will be exhibiting 
at the ABAA New York Book Fair, April 4 - 6, at the Park Avenue Armory 
at 67th St.  We will also be bringing a variety of items including 
leather sets, hand-colored plate books, early printed books, signed 
Presidential items, etc.  Come visit us in booth E-17.

PERELMAN,  S.  J.  THE ROAD TO MILLTOWN OR,  UNDER  THE  SPREADING
ATROPHY.  New York: Simon & Schuster 1957. First Edition. A collection
of  34  humorous pieces. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the  author
on  the  front  free endpaper to actress Elizabeth  Taylor  "from  her
mute/but  passionate  admirer" and dated 29 December 1956.  This  book
came  from  the  estate of producer Mike Todd whose death in  a  plane
crash  in 1958 ended his year-long marriage to Elizabeth Taylor.  Todd
produced  the film AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS which had a  screenplay
by  Perelman, James Poe, and John Farrow (Mia's father). The film  won
five  Academy  Awards  including  Best Picture  and  Best  Screenplay,
Adapted.  In a chapter from Perelman's uncompleted autobiography,  THE
HINDSIGHT  SAGA, which was published in the posthumous THE LAST LAUGH,
Perelman  described some time spent with Taylor and Todd, much to  the
detriment  of  Todd,  including a humorous account of Todd  trying  to
impress  Taylor's two young sons with a large and expensive model of a
navy  destroyer  that  ultimately  goes amok  in their  swimming  pool 
requiring a servant "to  beat it  with  sticks  till  it  subsides." 
Near  Fine  in  a  Near  Fine dustwrapper.                $1500.00

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