Show Business
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The Three Faces of the Film: The Art, The Dream, The Cult
by TYLER, Parker
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Very good in black cloth with bumps to the corners, light edgewear, and lacking the dustwrapper.
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£24.49
Clark Gable: Tormented Star
by BRET, David
New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 287pp. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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£16.33
D.W. Griffith: His Life and Work
by HENDERSON, Robert M
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good lightly worn dustwrapper.
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£16.33
Noel & Cole The Sophisticates
by CITRON, Stephen
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to director and writier Garson Kanin and his second wife, actress Marian Seldes: "for Garson Kanin & Marian Seldes -although we've never met you both feel like old friends from Anne's reports - With much admiration and all good wishes, Stephen Citron. August 9, 1995.
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£69.39
Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life
by GILDER, George
(Knoxville, Tennessee): Whittle Direct Books, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Part of The Larger Agenda Series.
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£20.41
Little Girl Lost: The Life and Hard Times of Judy Garland
by DIORIO, Al
(New York): Manor Books, 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. First paperback edition? Illustrated. A faint crease on the rear wrapper and toned page edges else near fine. Inscribed by the author. Scarce signed.
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£61.23
Down the Yellow Brick Road: The Making of The Wizard of Oz
by McCLELLAND, Doug
New York: Pyramid Books, 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto wrappers. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine.
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£16.33
A Talent For Trouble: The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler
by HERMAN, Jan
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Page 392 laid in. Very good with front cover corners creased.
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£16.33
MIS INMORTALES DEL CINE; HOLLYWOOD, ANOS CUARENTA
by MOIX, TERENCI
Barcelona: EDITORIAL PLANETA, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus in wrappers with sligt soiling and rubbing to the back wrapper. Text in Spanish.
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£32.66
List of First Class Passengers. Royal and U.S. Mail S.S. "Majestic," from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg; Wednesday, 2nd September, 1925
[No place]: White Star Line, 1925. Softcover. Near Fine. Small octavo. 21cm. [44]pp. Stapled embossed and decorated wrappers. A little foxing, near fine. Aside from the usual list of plutocrats and potentates are two well-known performers, actress and writer Madame Olga Petrova and the young dancer Agnes de Mille.
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£122.46
Break for Fiction: Short Stories Broadcast by the B.B.C.
by BROWN, Hilton, edited by
London: Vallancy Press Limited, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A gift inscription on the front fly, else fine in a slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks. Includes stories by Frank O'Connor and L.A.G. Strong.
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£61.23
A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noel Coward
by MORLEY, Sheridan
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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£16.33
Testament de Jérôme Sharp, professeur de physique amusante: où l'on trouve parmi plusieurs tours de subtilité, qu'on peut exécuter sans aucune dépense, des préceptes & des exemples sur l'art de faire des chansons impromptu: pour servir de complément a La magie blanche dévoilée
by DECREMPS, H(enri)
Paris: Chez l'auteur; Granger;Bailly; Lagrange;Lesclapart .., 1786. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Octavo. 328, [1]pp. Woodcuts and relief cuts of musical notation. Contemporary papercovered boards with leather spine label. Label chipped, some erosion to the boards, else a pleasing, about very good copy. Exposé of one of the first great conjurors, which did nothing to diminish his popularity. Scarce in boards.
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£2,449.20
Making Life Worth While
by FAIRBANKS, Douglas
New York: Britton, 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, the Khaki edition. Light tidemark to the bottom of the pages, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with chips at the spine ends. The simultaneously issued "Khaki Edition," much smaller and more compact than the regular issue, intended for use by the boys at the front in WWI. Wisdom from the noted film star in a smaller package.
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£102.05
Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories: From the Marlene Dietrich Collection of the Films Museum Berlin
by RIVA, Maria with Werner Sudendorf, captions by
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Unbound. Fine/Fine. Uncorrected proof. Square quarto. Compiled by Jean-Jacques Naudet. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Fine disbound with fine dustwrapper.
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£48.98
W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes
by TAYLOR, Robert Lewis
New York: Signet / New American Library, 1967. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Illustrated from black & white photos. 266 [2]pp. Slight age-toning else fine.
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£16.33
Broken Melody. A Drama for the Talking Screen
by SPIVACK, M.J
New York: Talking Picture Publishing Co, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Spotting on the front board else very good in about very good dustwrapper with chipping, mostly on the front panel. Signed by the author. Advance Review Copy with letter from the publisher laid in, advertising the book as the first talking picture play by an American author ever published.
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£244.92
The Sound of Drums and Cymbals
by WILDER, Robert
London: Allen, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First English edition. Copyright information obliterated on copyright page else fine in fine dustwrapper, an as new copy. Dynastic saga of a movie mogul and his heirs.
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£53.07
The Trouble Boy: A Novel
by DOLBY, Tom
(New York): Kensington Books, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with some edgewear, in a near fine dustwrapper with tears at the flap folds.
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£16.33
Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now
by HAYES, Helen and Anita Loos
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Second printing. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by both authors to Hope Montgomery Scott and her husband: "To Hope & Edgar, How we love you. Helen H." (and in Loos' hand) "& Anita L." Additionally taped to the half title is a card from Hayes inscribed: "Happy Holidays to all Scotts. Love, Helen H." The tape affects the edges of the inscription but not the signature. Hope Montgomery Scott was Philip Barry's inspiration when...
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£183.69
Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
by ALEXANDER, Jane
New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Light bumping to the spinal extremities else fine in fine dustwrapper.
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£24.49
Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics
by ALEXANDER, Jane
New York: PublicAffairs, 1999. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine copy in wrappers.
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£16.33
Vanessa Redgrave An Autobiography
by REDGRAVE, Vanessa
New York, New York: Random House, 1994. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers.
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£16.33
Bette Davis: A Biography
by LEAMING, Barbara
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First edition. 397pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Very good plus with bowed boards, some soiling along the edges in an about fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing.
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£16.33
Television The First Fifty Years
by GREENFIELD, Jeff
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good with light tanning to the spine and along the top of the boards, in a very good dustwrapper with a lightly tanned spine.
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£53.07
