Curtain Call

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1957).

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Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on the endpapers else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with some small nicks at the crown. A novel of Old Broadway, by the author of *The Miracle of the Bells.* Inscribed by the author: "To a real and true friend Kathryn Cravens the best friend in what has become a very lonely world. God bless you, Russell. June 7, 1959." The recipient, Kathryn Cochran Cravens (1898–1991), a radio personality, actress, and writer from Texas was also the first female news commentator to be broadcast from coast-to-coast. *Pursuit of Gentlemen*, her only novel, was published in 1951, which won first prize from the National League of American Penwomen in 1948.

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Item #408255 Curtain Call. Russell JANNEY.