[Rarebooks] FS: Dorothy Parker with Superb INSCRIPTION to Ruthven Todd

[Charles Agvent]

In our "booth" at the ABAA Virtual Book Fair

PARKER, Dorothy. THE VIKING PORTABLE LIBRARY DOROTHY PARKER Inscribed to 
Ruthven Todd. New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. Fifth 
Printing of this compilation of her poems and stories. Wonderfully 
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Parker on the front endpaper to author Ruthven 
Todd: "To Ruthven Todd--/With gratitude/to him for want-/ing this 
miserable/signature/Dorothy Parker." Cloth a little faded, upper right 
corner bumped. Near Fine in a price-clipped, lightly soiled, Very Good 
dustwrapper .
Ruthven Todd was a Scottish poet, artist, and novelist, best known as an 
editor of the works of William Blake and an expert on his printing 
techniques. He moved to the United States in 1947 where he lived for 13 
years. (#019988)        $1,500

https://www.abaa.org/book/1324430615?vbf=1

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