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Jun 27, 2015 - Jun 29, 2015
A Marilyn Monroe owned copy of Frankie and Johnny (New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930) gifted to her by author and director John Huston. The hardcover first-edition illustrated presentation copy is inscribed by Huston on the title page "Marilyn dear/ All those years ago/ when you were hardly/ born I wrote this for/ you - the perfect Frankie/ Johnny (himself)/ Huston." Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, Christie’s 1999 Marilyn Monroe auction bookplate affixed to endpaper, red cover with gold gilt lettering. Huston directed Monroe in one of her first films, The Asphalt Jungle (MGM , 1950) and her final completed film The Misfits (Seven Arts, 1961).
8 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches
PROVENANCE Lot 46, "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe," Christie's, New York, Sale number 9216, October 27 & 28, 1999
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