Signed book: My Trip Abroad. First edition. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1922. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.25, 155 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in ink, "To my friend Karl Schmidt, From the author, 'As the saying goes,' Charlie Chaplin, June 15th 1922." Autographic condition: fine, with a faint stain to the inscription. Book condition: VG/G, expertly rebacked, with a professionally filled and restored mostly complete dust jacket. Chaplin had just achieved substantial success with his first feature film in 1921, The Kid, and journeyed to Europe to bask in his international stardom. He spent time in England, enjoyed the company of H. G. Wells, toured France and Germany, and, due to an unfortunate bout of travel fatigue, turned down a lunch date with Douglas Fairbanks. Collecting his thoughts and experiences, My Trip Abroad reads like an intimate diary from Chaplin's foreign travels.
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