Assigned to Adventure [*SIGNED*]

(in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket) [book is moderately worn, spine cloth faded, light dampstaining to cloth along top edges of both covers; jacket is slightly shorter than the book itself, and has been backed with brown paper tape along all edges and seams, which has filled in for various small chips and other bits of paper loss (at spine extremities and several other corners)]. INSCRIBED to screenwriter Sonya Levien and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "With admiration and / much affection / Always," and dated "Hollywood, August 13, 1939." Irene Kuhn (1898-1995) was a reporter and columnist whose career began in the early 1920s. Prior to World War II she was quite the globe-trotter, working at various times in New York, Paris, Shanghai, and Honolulu; she was also in and out of Hollywood, briefly under contract to various studios in the early 30s and again in 1939, when she inscribed this copy of the book to Ms. Levien. (Her only recorded feature film credit was a pretty good one: a shared screenplay credit on THE MASK OF FU MANCHU at M-G-M in 1932.) She was also known for having racked up quite a few "firsts" over the course of her career, including: the first woman to broadcast from the Orient (as the Far East was called in those days); the first person to broadcast from aboard a U.S. Navy vessel; the first woman vice-president of the Overseas Press Club (of which she was also a founding member); the first person to broadcast from liberated Shanghai; the first woman reporter sent to Manila; and the first woman to write for The Stars and Stripes. By the time she published this book, she had returned to the U.S., and subsequently settled into a somewhat more sedate career as a feature writer, NBC news reporter (during the 1940s), and columnist. Reviewing this book for The New York Times, Augusta Tucker wrote that it "has pace, it has interest, it has color; and the woman who wrote it has sense, a quality not consistently present in the kiss-and-tell books of some of the male correspondents." NOTE that the dust jacket on this copy is from the Grosset & Dunlap (reprint) edition. Signed by Author

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Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company

Year: (c.1938)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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