The Salad Days : An Autobiography : Volume 1

First British edition. 432pp, three sections of black and white photographic plates. Quarter bound in black cloth over black paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Light green endpapers. Pages starting to tan. Internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The first part of Douglas Fairbanks Jr's - raconteur, bon vivant, actor and diplomat - autobiography, spanning the 1920s and 30s, ending in 1941, when Franklin D Roosevelt sent him and his new wife on a fact-finding tour of South America just before the United States entered the Second World War