Chicago: Sears Readers Club, (1952).
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Hardcover. Book club edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper (1/8" shorter than the book) with some rubbing and wear at the edges. Laid in is an original 3.5" x 5" gelatin silver photograph of Bankhead. The book is Inscribed to Tony Award-winning Marian Seldes (and with Seldes' ownership Signature):" Darling I love you with all my heart Bless you Tallulah." Seldes has noted in ink above the inscription: "Closing Night of Milk Train January 4, 1964." Bankhead and Seldes starred in the ill-fated second production of Tennessee Williams' *The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore*, which closed after only five performances. Bankhead was at the end of her career and fighting health issues during production of the play but managed to pull through with help from Seldes. A poignant inscription to an important collaborator presented on the final night of Bankhead's final performance.
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