The Groucho Letters: Letters From and To Groucho Marx.

MARX, Groucho.

Item Number: 127928

New York: SImon and Schuster, 1967.

First edition of Marx’s collected correspondence. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Groucho Marx on the front free endpaper, “Groucho.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A sharp example.

Here, in sum, is Groucho at his Grouchoest - free, funny, ferocious, and dear - history's choice (maybe only) example of a truth-teller universally beloved. No personage too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far is out of Groucho's spontaneous typewriter. He writes to comics and American Presidents, to his doctor and his daughter's boyfriend, and exchanges ripostes with the greatest wits of his day including E.B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, James, Thurber, and T.S. Eliot.