MEMOIRS OF A MANGY LOVER by MARX, GROUCH; ILLUSTRATED BY LEO HERSHFIELD

Format: Cloth
Book condition: Red cloth boards, gold stamped title to spine, slight bumping to spine ends and corner, DW not price clipped, Hershfield illustr

New York:: Bernard Geis Associates,, 1963. First printing. Cloth. Red cloth boards, gold stamped title to spine, slight bumping to spine ends and corner, DW not price clipped, Hershfield illustration of Grouch in his famous posture, chasing girl. Yellow, red and black lettering. Rubbing and light bumping of extremities, two 1/2 inch closed tears to upper rear dw, flea bit chip to front upper joint end. Light soil to rear dw. Clean, tightly bound, in protective mylar jacket. First Print stated. Top edge green. 312 pp. Please click for image. . Inside Grouch's strange and hilarious world as the "Demon Lover". Five sections of his quick trigger thoughts on anything that engages his wacky, witty mind from polygamy to poker: L'Amour the Merrier, Groucho's romantic youth; The Unatural History of Love, from the cave to modern times, Grouch's perception; Social Notes from a Social Outcase, his office low-down on Social Life through six painful lessons; It Happened to Eight Other Guys, of various ill-assorted friends and relatives; Marxist Philosophy According to Groucho, an appropriate ending as Grouch expounds his pronouncements about thrift, luch, talent, etc. A comic genius that has yet to be rivaled. Illustrated throughout by Leo Hershfield. Memoirs of a Mangy lover first print, Grouch Marx first print,