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Lot 235

A Katharine Hepburn group of books related to New England

14 May 2019, 13:00 PDT
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US$700 - US$900

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A Katharine Hepburn group of books related to New England

Comprising 18 books, two signed to Hepburn including one gifted to her by John Bryson titled A Wind to Shake the World, by Everett S. Allen, which chronicles the 1938 New England hurricane in which Hepburn's childhood home was destroyed (Bryson went on to photograph Hepburn's daily life in her later years and created a photographic coffee table book); five books written by Hepburn's sister, Marion Hepburn Grant, including The City of Hartford 1784-1984, In and About Hartford: Its People and Places, In and About Hartford: Tours and Tales, Fort Saybrook At Saybrook Point, and The Hart Dynasty of Saybrook; and one in which Hepburn has written something illegible. Two of the books in the collection are duplicates. A complete list of titles is available upon request.
Provenance: Property from the Estate of Katharine Hepburn, Sotheby's, New York, June 10 & 11, 2004, Lot 6.
Two boxes, each: 12 x 12 x 6 in.

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