Embassy Club--

with the signatures of politicians including sir winston churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Beaverbrook, and Randolph Churchill; the inventor G. Marconi; writers including Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, P. G. Wodehouse, and H. G. Wells; the cartoonist David Low; entertainers including Sir Gerald du Maurier, Anthony Asquith, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, and Charles Laughton; sportsmen such as Arthur E. R. Gilligan and Stephen Donoghue; the explorer Edmund Hillary; and British, European, and Indian royalty and aristocracy including Edward Prince of Wales and Lord Louis Mountbatten, 104 pages, blanks, oblong 8vo, 1920s-30s, reversed calf over boards, upper cover detached

The Embassy Club, which opened in 1920, was one of the most fashionable clubs of London's jazz age. A meeting place for the rich and famous, it featured sophisticated cabaret and a celebrated band led by Bert Ambrose.