Wrestling With the Angel

A Memoir of My Triump over Illness

by Max Lerner

New York: W. W. Norton & Company

1990

First Edition, First Printing

Signed association copy, warmly inscribed by the author to Hugh Hefner (1926-2017) and his wife Kimberley Conrad (1989-2010). Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, a cultural icon known for his flamboyant lifestyle and influence on attitudes towards sexuality.

Octavo, 210 pages, publisher's original pictorial dust jacket with the original price intact. Publisher's original gilt-lettered purple cloth-covered boards. Bookplate indicating that this volume is from Hugh Hefner's library. Also included is a signed letter from the yrustee of the Hugh M. Heffner 1991 Trust, Michael R. Whalen that indicates that this book was in the playboy mansion at the time of Hugh Hefner's death in 2019. Some slight rubbing, wear to jacket, else in very good condition.

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