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Lot 266

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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[BIOGRAPHY]. A group of 13 works, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, MOST SIGNED, comprising:

1) AARON, Hank. I Had A Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY AARON. 

2) CHERKOVSKI, Neeli. Ferlinghetti: A Biography. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI. 

3) CHESLEY, Larry. Seven Years in Hanoi: A POW Tells His Story. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1973. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY CHESLEY. 

4) CLAYTON, Marie. Marilyn Monroe: Unseen Archives. London: Parragon Publishing, 2006. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

5) COOLEY, Denton A. 100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon's Memoir. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin, 2012. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY COOLEY.

6) DAY, Clarence. Life with Mother. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. 

7) GENTRY, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and His Secrets. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GENTRY.

8) HILLARY, Edmund, Sir. Nothing Venture, Nothing Win. New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, Inc., 1975. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HILLARY.

9) KISOR, Henry. Flight of the Gin Fizz: Midlife at 4,500 Feet. New York: BasicBooks, 1997. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket.  FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KISOR.

10) MIRREN, Helen. In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008. Publisher's printed wraps. INSCRIBED BY MIRREN.

11) NIMOY, Leonard. I Am Spock. London: Century, 2005. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY NEMOY.

12) POWELL, Colin. A Soldier's Way: An Autobiography. London: Hutchinson, 1995. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST BRITISH EDITION, SIGNED BY POWELL.

13) SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK. My Story. London: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Original cloth; publisher's dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK.

Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, all 8vos, condition generally fine.

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