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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
by FARRELL, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1960. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black paper over boards with gilt and white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 245pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn and a tad scuffed; text block mildly age toned as usual. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this cult classic, a suspense novel turned into the 1962 psychological thriller starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. This exceptionally sharp copy bears a choice and unusual autograph addition: Tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page is a signed photograph (newsprint) of Bette Davis -- a unique frontispiece (tissue guarded). 4 3/4" X 7", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Black and white scene on newsprint stock showing Davis berating her wheelchair-bound sister, boldly inscribed and signed by her in black fineline at lower right: "For Billy / from / Bette Davis." Undated, but certainly signed in later life, circa 1980. A sharp copy of a scarce title, more so with this appropriate extra-illustration. Davis (1908-89) was a versatile Oscar-winning actress whom one generation loved for her striking looks and "Bette Davis eyes" (in "Jezebel," "Dangerous," etc.) and later generations loved to hate for her portrayals of aging, wacked-out psychos ("Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," etc.).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45802
- Title
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
- Author
- FARRELL, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Text Block
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
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