Ruby Dee, Signed First Edition of My One Good Nerve

Ruby Dee

First Edition

[Film and Entertainment] [African American] DEE. Ruby. My One Good Nerve. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987. First Edition Signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper - "To Carolyn and the Children -- Divine Blessings! Ruby Dee". Ruby Dee and her husband Ossie Davis (who wrote the introduction to this work) were an inseparable couple who wrote and acted together over decades. Dee got her start on Broadway, most notably as Ruth Younger in the original cast of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun. She also had an extensive career in theater and film, which this book recounts moments of with original poems interspersed. Some minor closed tears and creases to dust jacket, with 1/4 in. paper loss at top of spine. Very good condition overall.

Item #20661

Price: $225.00