Bedside Manna: The Third Fun in Bed Book

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. First edition. Large octavo. 202pp. Cloth. Illustrated. Gift inscription, pencil loop detached, else a fine, bright copy in price-clipped, fine dust jacket. The pictorial jacket reproduces a design by O. Soglow. Contributions include "How To Sleep" by Robert Benchley, a preface and "The Art of Breaking a Neck" by W.C. Fields, "The Doctor and the Contraption" by Stephen Leacock, "The Body Beautiful" by S.J. Perelman, "Essay on the Advantages of Sleeping in Bed Alone" by Groucho Marx, etc. Scarce in this condition.

Item #470390

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Item #470390 Bedside Manna: The Third Fun in Bed Book. Frank Scully, J. P. McEvoy an All-Star Cast including W. C. Fields, William Shakespeare, W. S. Gilbert, S. J. Perelman, Gerry Williams, Kendall Evans, Mark Hellinger, Ogden Nash, Thomas F. Jackson, Eddie Cantor, Clara Savage Littledale, Rex Beach, Philip Wylie, Martha Foley, Edwin E. Slosson, Groucho Marx, Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Stephen Leacock, Walter Winchell, Wolcott Gibbs, Many Others Many.