Come, Take My Hand [*SIGNED*]
Kollsman, Luli
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Add to basketSold by ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since 24 February 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket[light shelfwear to bottom edge, minor dust-darkening to top page edges; jacket shows a bit of wear at edges and corners, spine a little faded with shallow chipping at top (no loss of text), small ragged closed tear at bottom of front panel, small sticker-removal scar on front flap]. SIGNED boldly by the author on the ffep. Uncommon novel (the author's only book) about "a natural woman" with the wonderful name of Tulip Linden, in a wide-ranging narrative that seems designed to prove that "anything can happen" to her: she has various adventures in New York, goes to Reno for a divorce from a husband she'd apparently left behind in Canada, subsequently re-marries a "mysterious, wise and childlike scientist" that she'd met in New York, and who then goes prospecting for uranium in Nevada (from the air, guided by a spirit medium). The author's biography certainly denotes a busy and varied life, stating that she "was born of a noble German family in Heidelberg, married for the first time at seventeen, moved on to Hollywood at twenty-five, designed custom-built automobiles during the Depression, became a gas-station attendant during the War, established an international salon in New York shortly thereafter." Under the name "Luli von Hohenberg," she had a minor acting career in Germany, and a bit later (now as "Luli Deste") she appeared in a few B-movies in America in the 1930s and early 1940s. From 1944 until her death in 1951 she was married to Paul Kollsman, a noted German-American inventor. (She also had the distinction of having been featured in a 1946 painting by Salvador Dali; even though she was only a small figure in a surreal landscape, the painting was named after her: "Portrait de Luli Kollsman.") This book was also published in Germany unde the title "Du bist wunderbar ."; OCLC records just seven institutional copies of the first edition, three of which for some reason are in Ohio. Signed by Author.
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