Description
The signed limited edition of Death and Taxes by Dorothy Parker.
Small octavo, 62pp, [2]. Illustrated cloth, title in gilt on spine over red morocco label. No additional printings on copyright page. Solid text block, light offsetting to endpapers. Few points of wear to cloth along spine, some loss of cloth to the paper backing. In the publisher’s slipcase, matching label on spine, reinforced hinges, archival repair to bottom board, in delicate condition.
From a limited edition of 250 copies signed by the author, this being number 169.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a writer and a founding of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers, actors, and critics in the 1920s. Later in her career, Parker moved to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting, receiving two Academy Award nominations for A Star is Born (1937) and Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). She was blacklisted from Hollywood in 1950 when her name appeared on a list of Communists released by the publication Red Channels, abruptly ending her career.
