[publisher: New York, The Greystone Press, 1] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Noticeably aged / worn / yellowed. Dust jacket has some wear and tear, mainly along the edges.
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1937]

[publisher: Jonathan Cape, London] Hardcover First Edition 256pp (last leaf blank), photographic frontis print (by Hoppe); charcoal linen, jacket (7s 6d net, on flap); 207 x 143 x 30 mm. Kingsmill's colourful expose of cultural inferno & literary gadfly, the inimitable Irish-American writer & editor Frank Harris, his onetime friend & mentor (who styled himself "god's spy"). Published 20 July 1932, less than a year after Harris died (26 August 1931), a first stab at cutting through the hyperbole surrounding the celebrated literary monstrosity, by the one biographer close enough to capture his likeness full palette. A fresh copy, marred only by the inclusion of clippings on pastedowns; in a moderately dusty jacket with toned spine, missing only a small triangle at heel of lower joint. Ex libris, Joyce Hooper, with her ink autograph on ffe. Though the clippings are all British (dating from 1947 to 1960), the book may have been acquired by Hooper with them, leaving the possibility that the signature might yet be that of the otherwise unlikely American screenwriter (given that she was born in 1936). As the signature remains unverified, its inclusion is merely noted. A scarce volume, especially in jacket.
[Thunder Bay, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1932]