Lot 192
Brando (Marlon) and Robert Lindsey, Songs My Mother Taught Me, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from Brando, 1994.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
Description
Brando (Marlon) and Robert Lindsey. Songs My Mother Taught Me, first English edition, signed presentation inscription to Desmond Morris "I hope you won't hold this drivel against me - what it really is a pale mask as I hope you come to discover, warmest regards, Marlon Brando" to half-title, plates and illustrations, bookplate of Desmond Morris, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, else fine, 8vo, 1994.
⁂ A superb presentation inscription from Marlon Brando hinting at his own enigmatic nature. Brando was notoriously private and fulsome inscriptions such as this are rare.
In July 1996 Marlon Brando contacted Desmond Morris, whose TV series 'The Human Animal' he had been watching, in order to discuss 'the banality of evil' with the famed zoologist. Morris originally assumed the telephone call was a practical joke by a colleague but eventuallyrealisedthe truth and agreed to meet the renowned actor. Brando wanted to make adocumentary with Morris on the nature of human violence. When he visited Morris'sLondon apartment on 9July 1996 he penned a lengthy dedication in acopy of his memoirs. After dining in London that night, they werepursued across the city by a pack ofpaparazzi,eager to photographthe reclusive Brando. Sadly, Brando's demand that thedocumentaryshouldbefilmed atStonehenge meantthat it was neverrealised.
Description
Brando (Marlon) and Robert Lindsey. Songs My Mother Taught Me, first English edition, signed presentation inscription to Desmond Morris "I hope you won't hold this drivel against me - what it really is a pale mask as I hope you come to discover, warmest regards, Marlon Brando" to half-title, plates and illustrations, bookplate of Desmond Morris, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, else fine, 8vo, 1994.
⁂ A superb presentation inscription from Marlon Brando hinting at his own enigmatic nature. Brando was notoriously private and fulsome inscriptions such as this are rare.
In July 1996 Marlon Brando contacted Desmond Morris, whose TV series 'The Human Animal' he had been watching, in order to discuss 'the banality of evil' with the famed zoologist. Morris originally assumed the telephone call was a practical joke by a colleague but eventuallyrealisedthe truth and agreed to meet the renowned actor. Brando wanted to make adocumentary with Morris on the nature of human violence. When he visited Morris'sLondon apartment on 9July 1996 he penned a lengthy dedication in acopy of his memoirs. After dining in London that night, they werepursued across the city by a pack ofpaparazzi,eager to photographthe reclusive Brando. Sadly, Brando's demand that thedocumentaryshouldbefilmed atStonehenge meantthat it was neverrealised.
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