“Vivian darling—
Salemson always boasted
he would never autograph a
book he didn’t write himself,
but here’s the one that, more
than any other, he would have
wanted to write—with love
and belated birthday greetings,
Buddy.
August 1936″

A 1936 copy of The Big Money by John Dos Passos.

Found at Kulturas Used Books in Washington, DC. March 2005.

*Harold J. Salemson was a translator of literature in the first half of the 20th century.