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Cloth, Gilt. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good Slipcase. B/W Illustrations By Robert Lawson (illustratore). First Edition Thus. A bright, clean, unworn book, no damage, gilt brilliant. Slipcase worn, with short splits, but solid. Inscribed very warmly to wine merchant and writer Robert L. Balzer and his then wife, from stage and motion picture actress Sara Allgood, dated Christmas 1944. "Allgood began her acting career at the Abbey Theatre and was in the opening of the Irish National Theatre Society, appearing in many of their plays all over Britain. She was frequently featured in early Hitchcock films, such as Blackmail (1929), Juno and the Paycock (1930) and Sabotage (1936). Allgood was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1941 for her role as Beth Morgan in the 1941 film How Green Was My Valley, but lost to Mary Astor. She also had memorable roles in the 1941 retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, It Happened in Flatbush (1942), Jane Eyre (1943), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Spiral Staircase (1946), The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and the original Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)." [Wikipedia]. See Actrice Irlandaise, also Daughters of Erin.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. "Fifteen Hundred Copies Of This Book Have Been Made For The Members Of The Limited Editions Club The Illustrations Were Drawn And The Book Planned In Its Entirety By Robert Lawson, Who here Signs This Is Copy 1137" stated. Fine hardback in very good, if not very good plus slipcase. Signed by illustrator. Signed by Illustrator(s).