Me: Stories of My Life.

HEPBURN, Katharine.

Item Number: 119057

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

First edition of Katharine Hepburn’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 165 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Ron Herring good luck Katharine Hepburn.” Additionally signed three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the front free endpaper and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd.

Throwing aside her performing personality, Hepburn here reveals the person behind the persona in a vivid, unforgettable self-portrait that takes readers back to her childhood, to her early days in New York and Hollywood, through the ups and downs of her career, into the sanctuaries of her private life, and into her close collaboration with many of the leading actors, directors, and producers of the past several decades.