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Take My Life Eddie Cantor 1957 Signed First Edition Hardcover Book
Take My Life by Eddie Cantor with Jane Kesner Ardmore. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1957. Stated: First Edition. Dust jacket caricature by Tom Funk.
Hardcover book measures 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches and numbers 288 pages with photos.
Authentically signed/inscribed in blue ink on first blank page: "To Gladys Best Wishes Eddie Cantor."
Book is complete in dust jacket. A personal ex-libris paper plate signed by the book's original owner, Gladys D. Press, appears on the first book end.
Actual book is in excellent condition with tight spine and clean, crisp, unmarked pages. First few pages show a light vertical crease. Dust jacket shows wear, mostly around edges with some separation on first fold line.
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) was born in New York City. He made his name in vaudeville and on Broadway, radio, movies and television as a comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter. Nicknamed "Banjo Eyes" and the "Apostle of Pep," Cantor served as the second president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1933-35 and launched the first "March of Dimes" polio campaign on his radio show in 1938. Cantor died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, on October 10, 1964.
Hardcover book measures 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches and numbers 288 pages with photos.
Authentically signed/inscribed in blue ink on first blank page: "To Gladys Best Wishes Eddie Cantor."
Book is complete in dust jacket. A personal ex-libris paper plate signed by the book's original owner, Gladys D. Press, appears on the first book end.
Actual book is in excellent condition with tight spine and clean, crisp, unmarked pages. First few pages show a light vertical crease. Dust jacket shows wear, mostly around edges with some separation on first fold line.
Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) was born in New York City. He made his name in vaudeville and on Broadway, radio, movies and television as a comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter. Nicknamed "Banjo Eyes" and the "Apostle of Pep," Cantor served as the second president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1933-35 and launched the first "March of Dimes" polio campaign on his radio show in 1938. Cantor died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, on October 10, 1964.
