[Rarebooks] FS: Joseph Heller Inscribed to John Garfield's widow and her husband
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Fri Oct 31 11:55:42 EDT 2008
HELLER, Joseph and VOGEL, Speed. NO LAUGHING MATTER. New York: G.
P. Putnam's Sons (1986). First Edition. Joseph Heller's account of
his struggle with Guillain-Barre syndrome. This copy is INSCRIBED and
SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper to Sidney Cohn, a
prominent motion picture attorney and labor lawyer: "To Sidney Cohn,
/I doubt you'll mind/the brief Dickensian/description of you and
hope/that the rest pleases/you as well./Joe Heller/P.S. Thanks again
& love/to Robbie." Robbie was Cohn's wife, Roberta Garfield Cohn, who
was previously married to the actor John Garfield who died of a heart
attack at 39 after being blacklisted from motion pictures. She
married Cohn two years later. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.
$350.00
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