Hope, Bob

I OWE RUSSIA $1200 [Inscribed to Deena Clark]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Advanced Reading Copy. Octavo, 272 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is cream with shark gray and red lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "I.O.R.$1200/$3.95" on front flap, has mild general age-toning and creasing along extremities. Boards have mild shelving and rubbing wear along extremities; spine mildly cocked. Binding is split ~3in. down the length of the gutter between front endpapers. Textblock head edge has mild dust-burning, fore edge has mild age-toning; interior has mild age-toning to endpapers, publisher's "personal reading copy" stamp on front pastedown. Inscribed "To Deena Clark--I'll do your fanmail anytime--'thanks for the memory'" and dated "5/28/63" by Bob Hope on the front free-endpaper. Shelved Room C.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $60

NOTES

It appears that this copy of Bob Hope's I OWE RUSSIA $1200 was a draft of an inscribed copy for the 20th century TV journalist, Deena Clark. In Hope's hand, he's crossed out his original spelling of her name "Duiale" and written Deena above it. On the front pastedown, he's drawn an arrow to the misspelling and written "only mistake", editing his own message.