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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Page 10
FAREWELL TO ARMS
First edition,
Published 1929
INSCRIBED BY
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
to
GUS EDWARDS
Musician, vaudeville
entertainer, discoverer of
Groucho Marx, Eddie
Cantor, George Jessel and other
entertainers hired
for Edwards various Broadway revues,
such as the Postal
Telegraph Boys and Gus Edwards' Song Revues.
Gus
Edwards was the
subject of the 1939 Hollywood film,
The Star Maker,
starring Bing Crosby.
Book published by
Scribners, New York
original Gus Edwards
sheet music, with titles such as:
By the Light of
the Silvery Moon, If I Was a Millionaire, School Days,
School Mates, Old
Familiar Faces, Levee Lou, Could You Be
True to Eyes of
Blue If You Looked into Eyes of Brown, I Miss You
A Thousand
Different Ways, plus numerous others
vaudeville singing,
acting and dancing revues also toured the country
with talents such as
the Marx Brothers, George Jessel, Eddie Cantor,
Walter Winchell, Ray
Bolger, The Lane Sisters, Mae Murray,
Sally Rand, Duncan
Sisters, Elsie Janis, Jack Pearl, and many, many
vaudeville stars,
many of who made significant inroads into Hollywood.
Ed Gardenier, and
other musicians. Not only did Edwards have his
own music publishing
company, but also worked with Irving Berlin,
Jerome H. Remick, and
more.
Book is in near fine condition; no damage, no toning;
dust jacket is in very good plus condition, with some light chipping to
several corner, a 1-inch closed tear from top of dust jacket through
"W" of "Farewell," stabilized on back of dust jacket
with removable neutral pH, acid free museum tape; spine of jacket lightly
sunned; gold labels near fine, bright and clean. Most significant:
Hemingway's inscription to Gus Edwards is brilliant, clear and clean and on
front endpaper of book.
This is an Ernest Hemingway book with a superb
association to the entertainment world of the 1920s
and 1930s.
Inscribed Hemingway first edition of astounding
literary
merit exhibited for potential acquisition by
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