Blessings in Disguise Alec Guinness *SIGNED* 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1985

Blessings in Disguise 

By Alec Guinness

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1985. First Edition / First Printing. Inscribed and signed by Alec Guinness to the title page. HArdback book with dust jacket. 238 pages. With some loose newspaper clipping relating to Guiness laid in with the book.

CONDITION
A good first edition in a good unclipped jacket with no tears. Boards and spine are good. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages good throughout. Overall a very good signed first edition.

Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), in which he played eight characters; The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination; and The Ladykillers (1955). He collaborated six times with director David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946); Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948); Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor; Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia (1962); General Yevgraf Zhivago in Doctor Zhivago (1965); and Professor Godbole in A Passage to India (1984). In 1970, he played Jacob Marley's ghost in Ronald Neame's Scrooge. He also portrayed Obi-Wan Kenobi in George Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy which brought him further recognition; for the original 1977 film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 50th Academy Awards.

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