Norman Rockwell Signed Book with Sketch - My Adventures as an Illustrator Signed book: My Adventures as an Illustrator. First edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 436 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "Greetings to Helen Mayer, sincerely, Norman Rockwell." He adds a sketch of a child in a ghost costume below, and also signs on behalf of his son and ghostwriter Tom Rockwell. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG-, with the jacket exhibiting some toning, edgewear, and a torn front flap.

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