Signed book: The Art of Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures by Donald Spoto. First edition. NY: Hopkinson and Blake, 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.75 x 9.5, 523 pages. Signed and inscribed in black felt tip to his cardiologist, "To Walter, Hitch," who adds a self-portrait sketch of his own immediately recognizable profile. The title page is signed by the book's author. In fine condition, with tears and chips to the dust jacket. The consignor notes that the book was obtained from the widow of Alfred Hitchcock's heart doctor; the adored film director had a pacemaker and an enlarged heart when he passed at the age of 80 on April 29, 1980.
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