Vincent Price's Signed Inscribed Personal Copy of 1961 Book About ROme
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This hardcover book, The Florencce I Love, measures 10 1/2" x 9" in size and except for the jacket is in very good condition. It is from the personal library of Vincent Price, who was an art historian, in addition to being an actor! It is signed in blue ballpoint pen on the frontispiece by Vincent Price and dated 1961 Rome and notated that it was a gift from Jeanne Crain on Vincent's 50th birthday -- May 27, 1961. A wonderful collector's item!About Vincent Price:Vincent Price is best remembered for his roles in horror movies, specifically the Roger Corman adaptations from Edger Allan Poe. Although these gave him a wide variety of characters to play and were striking enough, they type cast him for the remainder of his career. Price did not start out with the intentions of becoming an actor but rather an art historian. He obtained degrees in Art History and English at Yale and then taught school for a year. He felt that he needed to further his education though as the students seemed to know more than he did! Price returned to college to take his Masters in Fine Arts at the Courtauld Institute in London, he also studied briefly in Vienna.It was while in London In 1934 that the theatre bug hit him, theatre tickets were relatively cheap and Price took advantage of this. He first appeared as an actor at the Gate Theatre, at the time a
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