Corinne Griffith

My Life with the Redskins [Signed by nine players & associates]

New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1947. Very Good / Good -. Item #48632

New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (23.4cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; yellow boards with red lettering; [xvi],238pp; b&w photos. Jacket split down flap folds and spine edges, with front flap still just holding; some loss of text at center and tail of spine; shallow chips and tears along edges, with some scuffs and smudges to surface. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with a few faint smudges to cloth. Binding sound and pages unmarked.

Signed on front free endpaper by Sammy Baugh, Leon Heath, Bill Dudley, Dick Todd, George Preston Marshall (Redskins owner & founder, segregationist, and husband of author), Harry Gilmer, Al DeMao, Bob Goode, and (what appears to read Marie E. Warne (?). Not signed by author.

Silent film star Griffith's memoir of her time working with her husband's football team. According to the rear flap, the "Orchid Lady of the Screen" helped organize half-time entertainment for the team.

Price: $175.00