Young Man with a Horn.
First Edition of Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn; Warmly inscribed by Her
Young Man with a Horn.
BAKER, Dorothy.
$500.00
Item Number: 140685
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.
First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernandez. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, “For Nell- Hommage de l’lauteur Dorothy.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Young Man with a Horn is based on the real life of jazz cornet player Bix Beiderbecke and was adapted for the movie Young Man With a Horn with Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Juano Hernández, and real-life Bix Beiderbecke friend and collaborator Hoagy Carmichael.
