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Jackie Cooper Signed Please Don't Shoot My Dog

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Jackie Cooper Signed Please Don't Shoot My Dog
<B>Jackie Cooper Inscribed:<I> Please Don't Shoot My Dog,</B></I> The Autobiography of Jackie Cooper.</B></I> (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981), first edition, 351 pages, illustrated, inscribed by the author on the ffep, orange boards with brown cloth shelf back, 8vo (6.5 x 9.5), fine in a fine unclipped jacket. Includes a one-page, 8.5 x 11, hand-written personal letter by Cooper, dated October 21, 1980 to the former owner of the book, signed <I>Jackie</B></I>. Also included is a one-page typed advertising release, 8.5 x 11, dated November 10, 1941, presumable signed in ink by director Norman Taurog and a young Jackie Cooper. Cooper was Taurog's nephew and the inspiration for the title of his autobiography. Taurog allegedly threatened to shoot Cooper's dog if he couldn't cry in the 1931 movie <I>Skippy.</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)