Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends Hardcover - 1978

New York: Doubleday, 1978. -----Quarter bound in black cloth brown boards with gilt, headband, (vi) 568 pages plus 16 pages of b & w photo plates, ink name on inside front board, dust jacket is in Very Good Plus condition with faint shelf wear. "Although Groucho is best remembered as the master of devastating one-liners & zany misdemeanors, beneath the mustache & eyebrows was a man of intelligence and rare sensitibity. Charlotte Chandler knew both Grouchos - the public antihero of millions & the private person who would have been a hero to his valet, if he'd had one. Included are rare stills from a "lost" 1931 promotional film, along with its complete script, as well as many unpublished photographs from Groucho's career and his private life." Contents include: "Hello, I must be going": Groucho and Old Age / "I'm too rich to eat bread" Life At Groucho's House / "He never kissed an ugly girl" The Women in Groucho's Life / "If I didn't have Erin, I'd have old furniture" The Woman in Groucho's Life / "The Lord Alps those that Alps themsellves" Groucho and Religion / "We're four of the Three Musketeers" The Marx Family / "Is it sad or hight kickin?" Groucho In Show Business after Eighty / "I've got the key to my front door" Groucho Revisits New York / "I wouldn't be 78 again for anything in the world" Gorucho's Eight-Fifth Birthday Party / "I look like George Washington with a mustache" Groucho on Groucho / "I keep the ones I want" Groucho and His Friends / Backward / Postlogue: "Never say goodbye, say auf Wiedersehen" / Chronolgy / "If it gets a laugh, leave it in" Rare Marx Brothers Film Scene. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Jacket illustration by Leroy Neiman . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.