Item #22943 The Moon and Sixpence. W. Somerset MAUGHAM.
The Moon and Sixpence.

The Moon and Sixpence.

Avon, CT: The Heritage Press, [1969]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin. Small 4to. Tan cloth with brown lettering, slipcase. 282pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Item #22943

John T. Winterich introduces this fictional biography of artist Paul Gauguin. Tight, clean, handsome copy -- and this copy highly unusual in that in bears choice autograph additions. In 1959 a made-for-television version starring Laurence Olivier as Gauguin aired, and signatures of two co-stars are tipped to the inner flyleaf: At top is HUME CRONYN (1911-2003; portrays Dirk Stroeve), who boldly inscribes and signs "For John / Hume Cronyn" in blue ink on a fine 5½" X 2" manila slip; below this is JEAN MARSH (born 1934; portrays young Tahitian native Ata, Gauguin's second wife), who inscribes and signs "For Bruce / with my / best wishes / X / Jean Marsh" in blue ink in the message/address side of a fine 5½" X 4" picture postcard ("The British Airways Concorde supersonic jetliner") -- one wonders if this was signed at 40,000 feet flying at 1,350 mph. Quite an interesting copy.

Price: $95.00

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