HATCH, Eric (1901-1973). My Man Godfrey. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.

8vo. Original pink cloth, front board and spine stamped in black (spine rubbed, small sticker residue on front pastedown); original dust jacket (spine sunned and soiled, some rubbing, toning, occasional soiling to jacket panels).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (“October, 1935” with no other dates mentioned). With a small pamphlet advertising Hatch’s other novels laid-in. The basis of the 1936 film starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, and directed by Gregory La Cava; it was nominated for several Academy Awards, and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999.