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Sale 2721 - Books & Manuscripts
May 28, 2020 9:00AM ET
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[Literature] [Dietrich, Marlene] Coward, Noel Star Quality: Six Stories

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. 8vo. (x), 308, (2) pp. Marlene Dietrich's copy, inscribed by her on front free endpaper: "Hope you/laugh as much/as I did", and again on pp. 51: "Cary Grant/a little change/to hide it". Original green cloth, stamped in silver, spine darkened, spine ends lightly worn, edges faded, small nick on rear joint, scattered soiling; all edges trimmed; creasing at upper edge of pp. 207/208; lacking dust-jacket; in quarter green goatskin solander box. Together with: To Step Aside: Seven Short Stories London and Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, (1939). First edition. 8vo. (x), 318 pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, slightly cocked, soiling to front and rear boards, corners lightly worn; all edges trimmed; ownership initials at head of front free endpaper, faint annotations in pencil on front and rear paste-downs; in later issue orange dust-jacket ("Second Large Printing"), spine faded, small chip at head of spine.

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