Snowbound: a Winter Idyl - Orson Welles’ copy, signed


By: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Price: $325.00

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First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bottom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engraved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Library, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the FEP and second flyleaf. Orson Welles’ inked signature at bottom of fep, and possibly a second time above -- the lower signature is clearly Welles -- the upper signature has indicial of Welles’s wide variety of signatures, but also some unfamiliar characteristics. One can only speculate on the connection -- but the presence of snow plays small but vital roles in both Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Ambersons and this, one of Whittier’s most famous poems is presented as a series of stories told by a family while sitting out a snowstorm. #### Condition. Good; corners and spine edges rubbed, chipping to upper spine; some soiling. Interior: RKO Studios logo and library ink stamp on fep and second flyleaf, with the former bearing Welles’ signature. Foxing to frontis and fly leaves; rest of the text block clean and tight.

Title: Snowbound: a Winter Idyl - Orson Welles’ copy, signed

Author Name: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Edition: 1st ed., second state

Location Published: Boston, Ticknor & Fields: 1866

Binding: Cloth

Book Condition: Good

Inscription: Signed by Orson Welles

Size: 12mo

Categories: Hollywood Memorabilia, Literature, Poetry, Autographs

Seller ID: k200901e

Keywords: autographs, hollywood, literature, poetry, verse