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Burns, George Gracie: A Love Story [*SIGNED*] New York G.P. Putnam's Sons (c.1988) Second Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dj [spine slightly turned, faint dust-soiling to top edge, no significant wear; jacket shows just minor surface wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To / _____ / My Best") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. This memoir "brings to life the charming woman who was smart enough to become the dumbest woman in show business history. Onstage she was lovable, confusing Gracie, who believed horses must be deaf because she saw so few of them at concerts, and who decided to cut her vacuum cleaner cord in half so she could save on electricity. Offstage she was a devoted wife, the loving mother of two adopted children -- and throughout her career in vaudeville, radio, television, and the movies she managed to hide the fact that her left arm had been horribly scarred in a childhood accident and that she suffered from crippling migraine headaches. Offstage, George explains, she was nothing like the dizzy character she played, 'except maybe for the time she backed up into a parked car and managed to convince the driver of that car that he'd hit her.'" Signed by Author Price: 60.00 USD
Simpson, George Gaylord (edited by Joan Simpson Burns) The Dechronization of Sam Magruder New York St. Martin's Griffin 1997 First Edition Softcover Very Good- [covers curled at edges, diagonal wrinkle/crease in front cover and the first few pages]. Trade PB "This lost novella by the century's most renowned paleontologist has been called the greatest time-travel story in more than one hundred years." Introduction by Arthur C. Clark; Afterword by Stpehen Jay Gould. Price: 4.00 USD
