Runyon, Damon. Tony gilbert Runyon a la Carte ~i~ Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company ~/i~ 1944
8vo. Original grey cloth, titles to front board and spine in red, top edge red with pictorial dust jacket; pp. (10) 11-192; Spine a little rolled and jacket with minimal sunning. Some loss to head of spine on dustjacket.
First edition, First printing
A presentation copy of twelve comedic stories inscribed by the author to the film producer Daryll F. Zanuck on the ffep, "To Colonel Dayrrl Zanuck, in sincere admiration and affection, Damon Runyon, 1944". Zanuck was appointed as colonel in the Army Signal Corps when the US entered the Second World War. In the aftermath, Runyon would go on to write the introduction to Zanuck's book Tunis Expedition (1943) which was an account of the producer's difficult experience in documenting the beginning of the North African campaign with the Signal Corps.
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