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Pelican Bookshop Press, New Orleans, 1926. Condition: Very Good. THIS BOOK HAS BEEN STOLEN. PLEASE TELL US IF YOU SEE IT. 1st edition, 2nd issue, 1/150 copies. Professionally rebacked, covers mottled, 1st page of Foreword darkened by clippings. Inscribed by Spratling to Alberta Kinsey and later to Flo Fields, who both figure in the book. 31 of the portraits are SIGNED: Nathaniel Curtis, Ellsworth Woodward, Meigs Frost, Natalie Vivian Scott, Oliver LaFarge, Mrs. James Oscar Nixon, Richard Kirk, Moise Goldstein, Frederick Oeschner, Wood Whitesell, Fanny Craig Ventadour, Roark Bradford, John McClure, Charles Bien, Lucille and Marc Antony, Elizabeth Werlein, Conrad Albrizio, Lillian Marcus, Daniel Whitney, Helen Pitkin Schertz, Keith Temple, Emmett Kennedy, Hamilton Basso, Louis Andrews Fischer, Alberta Kinsey, Lyle Saxon, Harold Levy, Caroline Durieux, Genevieve Pitot, Weeks Hall. Truly a unique copy!Very Good.