Over the Footlights [Dust jacket art by John Held Jr.] [Jazz Age]

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. 285pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards. Covers a little cocked. A bit of bumping to the extremities. With the dust jacket illustrated by John Held, with light rubbing, darkening to the spine, and sporadic small closed and open tears to the edges. No price present on jacket. A first edition from this humorist and political scientist. Twenty-two short pieces about American plays and films. The illustrator of the dust jacket, Utah artist John Held Jr., was one of the best known magazine illustrators of the 1920s, and his designs for F. Scott Fitzgerald jackets became icons of the Jazz Age.