Ripley's Believe It or Not SIGNED by ROBERT L. RIPLEY First Edition 1st 1929

First edition, signed by Ripley. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Ripley and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper.

Bound in publisher's original grayish-green cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities and several bumped to edges.

Pages toned, sporadically thumbed, and light waviness to rear pages. A nice copy, signed by the cartoonist and amateur anthropologist who compiled odd facts from around the world for his newspaper panel, radio and television shows.

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