Signed book: Legacy. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8, 372 pages. Signed and inscribed on the front pastedown and opening pages in fountain pen by the director and main stars of the 1941 film Adam Had Four Sons, which was adapted from Charles Bonner's novel. The signers include: “I am Emily Gallatin, Ingrid Bergman,” “Greetings and all good wishes from ‘Molly’ Stoddard, Fay Wray,” “To Phil, from, Helen M. Westley,” “To—Phil,—my very good friend with heaps of everything good to you, Warner [Baxter], ‘Adam Stoddard,’ Nov. 1940,” “My very best wishes for your happiness, Phil, —Susan Hayward,” “To Phil! May your worries never increase!!!!!!! Gregory Ratoff,” “To Phil: Best wishes to a good little pal and a grand guy! Sincerely, Dick Denning (Jack),” “To Phil: Remembering a swell bunch of guys connected with ‘Legacy,’ Sincerely—Bob Shaw (Chris),” and “To Phil: I hope you will have the best of everything, Sincerely, Charlie Lind (Phil).” The recipient, Phil Schiefer, the close friend and agent for Baxter, adds his name to the title page and front pastedown. In fine condition, with light wear to the dust jacket. A very desirable multi-signed first edition boasting a particularly early autograph from Bergman, who had made her successful Hollywood debut a year earlier in the 1939 film Intermezzo, which was also directed by Ratoff.
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