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Dick Button on Skates -- inscribed book with a Typed Letter Signed

Dick Button on Skates -- inscribed book with a Typed Letter Signed by BUTTON, Dick

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Title
Dick Button on Skates -- inscribed book with a Typed Letter Signed
Author
BUTTON, Dick
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
London: Peter Davies, 1956. hardcover. very good/very good(-). 217 pages, large 8vo, blue cloth (uneven fading on the spine), dust wrapper (worn and chipped). London: Peter Davies, (1956). A very good copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed on the dedication page to fellow skater Aja Vzanova: "For Aja - the love of my life!! Dick xoxoxoxo New York, October 8, 1986." Accompanied by a typed letter signed "Dick" on Button's personal letterhead, 1 page, 10.5 x 7.25 inches, no place, September 27, 1983, in full: "Dear Aja Vrazanova Zanova-Steindler (known to the rest of the world as Mrs. Paul Steindler), You are indeed the most spectacular, longest legged, delightfully nutty, slightly wicked, ever intriguing, best looking, most sought after, deliciously special, incredibly sexy, and most important contributor to any evening's success. You have only one problem. Why don't you get that dipstick of a husband of yours to buy you something other than that old, ratty, moth-eaten, white rabbit skin? (Just kidding, I knew all along it was rat fur!) Come to think of it you probably would look even better if you wore nothing. Thanks for always cheering me up. My love to you both." Two horizontal folds and in very good(+) condition.
Typed Letter Signed

Typed Letter Signed by JENNINGS, Peter (1938 - 2005)

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Typed Letter Signed
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JENNINGS, Peter (1938 - 2005)
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Description
unbound. Typed personal note from Peter Jennings to Washington Post columnist Tom Shales regarding a recent appearance on NPR and his review of the 1983 film Reuben, Reuben. Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists. This is a new item from the collection of Television critic Tom Shales (1944 - 2024). Shales was an incisively funny Washington Post columnist, he earned the nickname Terrible Tom and had the clout to make or break shows. Shales won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1988. During his three-decade career those in the industry considered him both a kingmaker and a high executioner in an era when network television's hold on American culture was at it's peak. Time magazine called him "brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny...also, vicious, infuriating, cruel and unfair". His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column, 'On the Air,' syndicated in 59 other newspapers. The Tom Shales collection includes letters, cards and correspondence from celebrated television and entertainment legends, newscasters and politicians, including letters from Norman Lear, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Conan O'Brien, Garry Shandling, Fred Rogers, Carol Burnett, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Edward Kennedy, Nancy Reagan and many more. Please inquire for more information.

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