Signed book: Hitchcock / Truffaut. First edition, second printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.75 x 11, 256 pages. Signed and inscribed in black ink to his cardiologist, "Dear Walter, from your patient patient, Hitch," who adds a self-portrait sketch of his own immediately recognizable profile. 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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