This Is Where I Came In

New York: Doubleday, 1960. First Edition. Association Copy, INSCRIBED in the year of publication on the front endpaper by the author to playwright George Middleton and his wife, activist and actress Fola La Follette: "Open Letter to G.M. and Fl. La Fl.: / Dear George and dear Fola: My checkered career / You'll find in these pages. Ah, please shed a tear / For one who so brashly disrobes in a tome / A practice that should be confined to The Home. / With gratitude and admiration / Ed Anthony / Feb. 1960."

Middleton's nephew David's ownership stamp on the front pastedown.

New Jersey-born playwright, director, and producer George Middleton served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1927 to 1929. He is perhaps best remembered today for his instrumental role in creating the Minimum Basic Agreement, a collective bargaining agreement that covers benefits, rights, and protections for Writers Guild of America members. Middleton was also known for his collaborations with Guy Bolton, including the successful 1917 stage comedy "Polly With a Past," basis for the 1920 film adaptation.

The daughter of Senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette and women's suffrage leader Belle Case, Flora Dodge "Fola" La Follette was a stage actress, teacher, and writer as well as an activist for the women's suffrage and labor movements. She married Middleton in 1911.

An autobiography of American journalist and publisher Edward Anthony.

Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint glue darkening on the endpapers. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with brief chipping and creasing at the crown and a small tidemark at the heel.

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