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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Signed by Their Authors. Six 20th Century Titles.
Including:
1) Eric Ambler's Journey into Fear, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1940]; the author's copy with typed sticker to that effect on front cover with notation in Ambler's hand "1st UK edition," with three typed lines crossed out, "revised and corrected for Heinemann/Octopus edition in September 1977"; two-line signed dedication in author's hand to title, likely meant to replace the original dedication, which is struck out in the same pen; the Montaigne quote on verso of the dedication leaf also circled in pen with a small annotation; in publisher's cloth (slightly shifted) and tattered jacket.
2) W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939, first trade edition illustrated by Randolph Schwabe, signed by Maugham on ffep; bound in very good original cloth in a well-preserved jacket.
3) Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame, New York: Vanguard Press, 1955, second edition, inscribed by the author to Betty-Ann Mitchell, with additional annotations by the dedicatee, his typist, V.V., and another associate, Mary Elinor Coffey; in publisher's binding, in a faded dust jacket.
4) James Thurber's Thurber Country, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953, first printing, inscribed by Thurber to his mistress, "Honey" on ffep; bound in publisher's cloth, in a chipped dust jacket.
5) Tennessee Williams's Memoirs, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1975, first trade edition, inscribed "To Brad" and signed in full by Williams on ffep; in publisher's binding and intact dust jacket.
6) Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith, New York: Bantam, 1982, copy 396 of 2,500 signed by Carter on limitation page, bound in publisher's navy leather and housed in slipcase, as new. (6)
