Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
Me: Stories of My Life (First UK Edition Hardcover Copy)
The Bestselling, Provocative Memoir of Cinema's Legendary Four-Time Academy Award Winner
The Bestselling, Provocative Memoir of Cinema's Legendary Four-Time Academy Award Winner
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Me: Stories of My Life
- Author: Katharine Hepburn
- Publisher: Viking (Penguin Books Ltd), London
- Publication Date: 1991
- ISBN-10: 067083974X
- ISBN-13: 9780670839742
- Edition Details: First UK Edition, First Printing. Standard hardcover release with original unclipped dust jacket.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium textured cloth-covered boards with crisp gilt-stamped typography running down the spine, complete with structurally sound matching heavy-stock endpapers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 420 pages. Wonderfully enhanced with a vast, curated collection of rare personal and professional archival photographs embedded directly within the text block.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Cloth Boards: The cloth casing remains in exceptional condition, sitting flat, square, and structurally sound. The corners show only microscopic storage friction, and the spine ends are crisp. The spine itself remains completely unbroken, flat, and undamaged, retaining its original textbook rigidity.
- Interior: The text block is robustly bound, perfectly clean, and tight. The internal pages and extensive photographic inserts are completely clean, crisp, and intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, ink underlining, dealer pencil marks, or dog-ears.
- Provenance: An exemplary, well-maintained collectible copy showing no evidence of remainder marks, institutional library stamps, or previous owner nameplates.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition Details: The original vintage 1991 dust jacket exhibits vibrant graphics and strong paper structural integrity. It shows very limited, superficial signs of handling and slight edge wear along the outer extremities. It features no significant tears, fading, or open chips, and comes protected in a clear, archival Cellophane cover.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1991, Me: Stories of My Life is the historic, absorbing memoir of Katharine Hepburn, one of the most celebrated and fiercely independent icons in cinematic history. Admired by movie audiences for over sixty years and recognized as a four-time Academy Award-winner for Best Actress, Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her fiercely guarded private life.
Written in her distinct, sharp, and unmistakably conversational voice, the narrative traces her unconventional childhood in Hartford, Connecticut, her rocky early breaks on Broadway, and her meteoric rise in Hollywood. She writes with incredible candour about her complex relationships—most notably her legendary, decades-long hidden romance with Spencer Tracy—as well as her friendships with figures like Howard Hughes, John Ford, and Jimmy Stewart. Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, this deeply moving autobiography is an essential, primary account of the Golden Age of cinema, written by the woman who conquered it entirely on her own terms.
Author Profile: Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) was a monumental American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than sixty years. Celebrated for her fierce independence, sharp wit, and unconventional screen persona, she holds the unmatched record for the most Academy Awards for Best Actress, winning four Oscars out of twelve nominations. Named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema, Hepburn's enduring legacy bridges the worlds of high-fashion style, feminist independence, and peerless dramatic artistry.
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