These Were Our Years
Doubleday and Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 528pp. Association copy for Sydney Chaplin, American stage and film actor and Charlie Chaplin's son. from editor's introduction: "This book then, in one way, is a nostalgic look backward at a way of life we will never know again. It is a book about years which, I suspect, will grow increasingly dear to us in retrospect, the years between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II, the years, I fell, that were the glad, the sad, the noble years in American history and which I choose to call "the best years" of our life in the United States. It is an anthology in which I have tried to re-create and reflect American life in this period through short stories, excerpts from books (both novels and non-fiction), an occasional poem, newspaper pieces, newspaper columns, and magazine articles." very good: age wear/toning to boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers/edge of text block. SIGNED by author and inscribed: "For Sydney Chaplin--With all good wishes--Frank Brookhouse" / no DJ. Item #941
#01021.
Price: $40.00