Of All Places by Abbe, Patience, Richard and Johnny - 1937

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 233p. A mint-green gilt cloth hardcover book in good condition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Light foxing inside. Spine deeply tanned. Front and back cover lightly soiled. Otherwise clean and tight. The second book by the children of James Abbe and Polly Shorrock. Patience Abbe is the acknowledged primary author. An account of their lives as well-traveled children of celebrities. Contains black and white plates.

5C: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. This specific book is in very good condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges/corners, a bit of cover wear and some mild fading along the edges, and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased but for a gift inscription written on the first blank endpage. The dust jacket has done its job of protecting the book and is in good condition with moderate cover or edge wear some creasing and tears. This is a remarkable book and is in very good condition. ; This is a collection of stories about the adventures and misadventures of three children, Patience, Richard and Johnny Abbe. The tales are hilarious and sometimes a bit frightening, and are told from the perspective of the children. ; 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.7 Inches; 233 pages .

NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Stated "Second Printing (before publication)" (earlier date than the first printing), very good in a very good dust jacket. The green cloth has a couple of small spots, and the spine is a touch faded. Gilt on spine and front board is still fairly bright. Small bookplate in upper left corner of front pastedown (behind jacket flap). The jacket has slight loss at the edges of the rear panel and the spine ends. $2.00 price is present on front flap; no names or other writing in the book.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from photographs. Foxing to the boards, endpapers, and a little in the text, thus very good in very good or a little better dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel, and some other tiny tears. Precocious children in Hollywood report on their interactions with Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, fellow children Shirley Temple and Elizabeth Taylor, and a bevy of others. Scarce.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1937. First Edition. Very good plus copy with a trace of fading to the top and bottom edges of the spine and very minor darkening to the gutters in a very good bright slightly used dust jacket with the front jacket flap detached, a hint of edge wear, and a few shallow chips and tiny tears. Illustrated ‘memoirs’ from a young trio of siblings who write of their famous celebrity friends, including Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy, Hal Roach, Marion Davies, Robert Taylor, and others, with a special section about Shirley Temple when she was around eight, and time spent as guests of William Randolph Hearst at Hearst Castle.