Everything Goes [*SIGNED*]

New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good+. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [solid book, very slight fraying to cloth at top of spine; one-time owner's "Property of" annotation and signature on front pastedown]. INSCRIBED ("for __ + ___ / a first edition of / this lovely old / tome (the second / issue of which is / much, much scarcer!") and SIGNED ("Charlie") on the ffep. [What I suspect the author meant by that inscription is that there *was* no "second issue."] The Los Angeles-born author's second novel, about an attractive "older woman" (i.e. over 40) goes on a European prowl (Monte Carlo, Biarritz, Paris, etc.) for a younger man. The novel was adapted as a play, "Stolen Summer," in which one-time silent star Betty Blythe trod the boards in Pasadena in 1934. (For the record, she was forty at the time, and already relegated to minor roles, often uncredited.) Grayson himself was briefly a movie actor, according to a 1932 story in the L.A. Times, although I've been unable to find any credits for him in front of the camera; he did eventually, however, become quite a prolific screenwriter, his final credit being John Huston's THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA in 1958. Signed by Author .