OVER MY LEFT SHOULDER: A PANORAMA OF MEN AND EVENTS, BURLESQUES AND TRAGEDIES, CABBAGES AND KINGS AND SOMETIMES W AND Y. New York, London: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xiv] xv-xvii [xviii-xx]1-349 [350] [351: blank] [352: ads], inserted frontispiece, cloth. First edition, first printing with printing code "(1)" at base of text on page [350]. A collection of articles and recollections, most first published in his famous column "Bob Davis Recalls" which ran on the editorial page of the New York Sun. In 1904 Robert Hobart Davis (1869-1942) was hired as fiction editor of the Munsey magazines where he promoted and published many new writers including Edgar Rice Burroughs. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some edge wear, shallow chipping at head of spine panel and upper corner tips, and some dust soiling to rear panel. (#94720).
Price: $65.00
First printing has printing code "(1)" at base of text on page [350].