KLABEN, Helen
Hey, I'm Alive!
NY, McGraw-Hill, (1964). Klaben's story of surviving 49 days in the Alaskan wilderness, along with her under-trained pilot Ralph Flores, following their 1963 plane crash enroute to California from Fairbanks. Klaben had traveled to Alaska by car in 1962 after responding to an ad in the New York Times placed by Sue Beehler, who was looking for a companion for the ride. This copy is inscribed by Klaben to Beehler: "For Sue/ without you I never would have had this great adventure/ Best love, Helen Klaben Kahn." With Beehler's 1964 ownership signature and address label, and with her annotations in the text. The inscription dates from 2004, and Beehler (now Johnston) has added "40 yrs later in SF CA." The date of the inscription (10/7/04) corresponds to that on a small label on the rear flyleaf on which Beehler has written "Helen Kahn/Legion of Honor/SF CA." A Canadian Star Weekly article about Klaben is laid in. The 1975 television movie starred Sally Struthers as Klaben and Ed Asner as the pilot. Abrasion to the lower spine; slightly cocked; a very good copy, in a supplied, very good dust jacket. The best possible association copy.
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