My Trip Abroad: What Europe Did To The World’s Most Popular Movie Actor.

CHAPLIN, Charlie.

Item Number: 127336

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922.

First edition of Chaplin’s fast-moving narrative of his whirlwind trip to England and Europe. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of Chaplin and Knobloch arriving in Europe. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, “To Milt Gross from Charles Alfred Reeves Spencer Chaplin to remind him of Xmas in California in the year 1925…” Chaplin has added a self-caricature with his signature bowler, moustache, shoes, and walking stick. The recipient, Milt Gross was an American cartoonist and animator. His work was noted for its exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue as well as his work on several silent films. In 1928, he collaborated with Chaplin on the classic silent film ‘The Circus’, and in 1930, published his graphic masterpiece, ‘He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too’, composed entirely of pen-and-ink cartoons sharing the same goofy, slapstick combined with pathos that became Chaplin’s trademark. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. An exceptional association. 

A fast-moving narrative by America's greatest screen comedian, Chaplin's My Trip Abroad chronicles his tour to England and Europe where he was literally swept off his feet, mobbed and cheered everywhere, and overwhelmed by demonstration and invitation. Weekending with H.G. Wells and dining with Sir James Barrie, he came into personal contact with the greatest literary minds in England. In Paris, he was kissed by the French cabinet and cabareted until his head swam. The mysteries of Paris were unfolded, and then he was whisked away to Germany where he met the beautiful Pola Negri, and found himself unknown. A charming tale of human interest, sights and sounds.