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"In His Own Write" Book Signed By The Beatles Plus

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 In His Own Write  Book Signed By The Beatles Plus
In the fall of 1964, The Beatles embarked on a concert tour of the U.S., which lasted approximately a month, and the tour fell between the dates of August 19 and September 20, 1964. During the tour, they chartered a plane from the American Flyers airline service. During the flight, they were taken care of in First Class by Eva Zavala, who was the head flight attendant. Eva was lucky enough to have her copy of John Lennon’s book “In His Own Write” signed by The Beatles, with nice inscriptions from George and Paul. George writes “To Eva, lots of love and thanks for all the good service from George Harrison”, and Paul has inscribed “love to Eva from an admirer How’s your arm? Paul McCartney XXX”. John Lennon and Ringo Starr have both signed without inscribing. Additionally, the book has been signed by Brian Epstein, who wrote “Eva Good luck” before his signature. Beatles tour manager Neil Aspinal has signed and written “Good luck Eva See you in England”. Also signing the book was Derek Taylor, a member of the press who was employed as Epstein’s personal assistant at the time. Eva was pictured with The Beatles in both Life and Readers Digest magazines. This lot also includes 5 candid snapshots taken on the plane on the day the book was signed, with shots of Paul, Ringo and Brian Epstein, which were developed in October 1964. Also included are two Beatle promo cards, one of which was signed on the reverse by the Beatles’ equipment manager Mal Evans, who scripted the signatures of the band members which he did as part of his job, unbeknownst to Eva until only recently. The back 4 pages contain many signatures of members of the opening bands and various media personnel who were also on the plane. In all, this is an amazing assortment of Beatles tour related signatures in one place. Beatles autographs with manager Brian Epstein are very rare and desirable, as most people who got the band’s autographs did not think that it was important to get the manager’s signature as well, so few did. Includes a letter from Eva. VG condition, spine split.