My Life and The Times.

CATLEDGE, Turner.

$125.00

Item Number: 109372

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1971.

First edition of this autobiography by the New York Times journalist and editor. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Marian Heishell in grateful appreciation of her friendship- with sincerest and affectionate regards. Turner Catledge.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

The absorbing saga of a man who rose from a threadbare Mississippi boyhood to become a towering figure in American journalism. Catledge is a born storyteller, and his book is full of entertaining anecdotes.