Description
The signed limited edition of After Such Pleasures, by Dorothy Parker.
Octavo, [10], 232pp, [3]. Beige cloth, title stamped on spine. No additional printings noted on the copyright page. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to the cloth, notable toning to the spine. Solid text block. Housed in brown cloth slipcase. From a limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 165, signed by Dorothy Parker.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a writer and a founding member 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.
