[Rarebooks] FS: Booth Tarkington Photograph Inscribed to Silent Film Star and fellow Indiana native Ann Christy

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest Internet Catalogue: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY 
MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, a total of 90 items, many quite 
scarce.  Our Boston Book Fair Catalogue will be posted next week and 
includes fine Signed Presidential and Literary items, Early Printed 
Books, and our usual selection of the unusual.

TARKINGTON, Booth. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH.     A 6" x 8-3/4" vintage formal
portrait  by  Pirie Mac Donald, "Photographer of Men."  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  by  the author: "To Miss Christy/with best  wishes  from/Booth
Tarkington/1931."  Miss  Christy  is likely the silent film  star  Ann
Christy who, like Tarkington, hailed from Indiana.  Nearly fifty films
were  made  from Tarkington's novels and plays between 1914 and  1951.
Signed  photos by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels  THE
MAGNIFICENT  AMBERSONS and ALICE ADAMS are distinctly uncommon.  Light
wrinkling to right side.  Still Near Fine                      $750.00

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