Collection of 32 hardcover books, each signed inside on an opening page in ink or felt tip by the celebrity author or actor related to the work, with most adding inscriptions. Signers are: Arthur Miller (Timebands); Helen Hayes and Susan Strasberg (Time Remembered); Lauren Bacall (By Myself); Anne Baxter (Intermission); Ralph Bellamy (When the Smoke Hit the Fan); Katherine Cornell (I Wanted to Be an Actress); John Ericson and one other (Stalag 17); Charles Bickford (Bulls, Balls, Bicycles, and Actors); Dirk Bogarde (A Gentle Occupation); Lloyd Bridges (Mask and Flippers); Olivia de Havilland (Every Frenchman Has One); Maurice Evans (G. I. Production of Hamlet); Sterling Hayden (Wanderer); Dorothy Lamour (My Side of the Road); Mervyn Leroy (Mervyn Leroy: Take One); Cyd Charisse and Dick Kleiner (The Two of Us); Colleen Moore (Silent Star); Robert Morley (Robert Morley: A Reluctant Autobiography); Joe Pasternak (Easy the Hard Way); Anthony Quinn (The Original Sin); Harold Russell (Victory in My Hands); Jane Seymour (Guide to Romantic Living); Kate Smith (Upon My Lips a Song); Susan Strasberg (Bittersweet); Gene Tierney (Self-Portrait); Maurice Evans (Tenderloin); Robert Preston (The Music Man); Shelley Winters (Shelley: Also Known as Shirley); Joan Fontaine (No Bed of Roses); Cheryl Crane (Detour); Mickey Rooney (The Search for Sunny Skies); and Lloyd Nolan (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial). In overall fine condition, with several books having ownership bookplates affixed within. Accompanied by an unsigned copy of Jack Bailey’s What’s Cookin’. RR Auction COA.
