AVA: MY STORY by Ava Gardner

Condition: Very good. Minor edgewear and faint age-toning to jacket; interior clean and binding tight.

In Ava: My Story, the legendary screen siren tells her own tale with candour, wit, and disarming self-awareness. Born in rural North Carolina in 1922, the youngest of seven children, Gardner rose from barefoot farm girl to one of Hollywoods most alluring and enduring stars.

She recalls her early MGM days, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her adventures in the golden age of film from Show Boat and Mogambo (for which she earned an Oscar nomination) to The Night of the Iguana. Beyond the glamour, Gardner shares the struggles of fame, the loneliness behind the legend, and her deep humanity.

Dictated into tapes in her later years, this autobiography captures Gardners distinctive voice: sharp, funny, defiant, and vulnerable. I want to remember it all, she said, the good and bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved.