Hollywood Memorabilia from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp. Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the… Read more about this item

The Council, Beverly Hills. Fine. Black cloth. 1947. 1st edition. 1st ed., limited to 250 numbered copies. 8vo, black cloth/gilt ti tles. 432pp. . SP-PCA—Progressive Citizens of America—sponsored a massive pu blic meeting protesting HUAC and the increasing use of loyalty oa ths. They provided important public and financial support to the Hollywood Ten, a subset of the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: American Cinematographer Magazine. 1969. Small 4to, embossed hardcover. Presentation copy from film edit or Herb A. Lightman to the Watts Training Center. Very good. .

Atheneum, New York. Fine. 1960. 1st ed.. 8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition. . s was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelis t. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Isl and in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisa n in 1946 for which he was nominated for… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press. 1989. 1st ed., softcover. limited to 300 copies signed by James Whale a nd publisher James Pepper. A tiny bit of wear adjacent to the sta ples on the spine; otherwise a pristine copy. .

Vantage Press. Near fine. 1967. 1st edition. NY: Vantage Press, 1967. 1st ed., 8vo. 111 pages. Maroon cloth wi th silver lettering to spine in original dj. A near fine review c opy in fair dust-jacket. The book has a ½” hairline crack at the bottom of the frontgutter and some very minor shelf-wear on b ottom edge.… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Architectural Book Publishing. Good. 1930. 1st edition. Signed by Oscar-winning set designer Walter Scott . 1st ed, folio, black cloth, gilt titles. Xv [3] 173 pp. A look at the architecture and landscape architecture of early Mexico. Fro m 1925-1929, Garrison and Rustay set out to record a select numbe r of examples of the 'minor domestic… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. 1st. edition, INSCRIBED by Horst and author Valentine Lawford to Connie Wald, the wife of Hollywood producer/writer Jerry Wald. A very good copy overall, but with spotting on the back cover and a half-page unrelated gift inscription on the front end-paper. Dus t jacket is good only, with two 1/2-inch closed tears… Read more about this item