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Enter Joseph Papp: In Search of a New American Theater
by LITTLE, Stuart W
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc, 1974. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Modest wear thus near fine in wrappers.
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£19.85
Hollywood Wife
by Anonymous [pseudonym of Anabel Lane]
New York: G. Howard Watt, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Bookplate of actor Jean Hersholt, a tiny tear at the crown, near fine in near fine dustwrapper (with art by Crary) with tiny nicks. An exotic tale of Hollywood orgies, it is not clear whether this is fact or fiction, but most likely some combination of both. Inscribed by the author: "To Jean Hersholt, a 'Hollywoodite' whom I am proud to know. Anabel Lane 'Miss Anonymous.'" Laid in is a two-page Autograph Letter Signed from...
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£754.40
A Flask of Fields: Verbal and Visual Gems from the Films of W.C. Fields
by ANOBILE, Richard J. (editor)
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good plus with bumps to the head and tail of the spine in very good dustwrapper with some light soiling and age-toning.
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£15.88
Colonnade 1972
by (STERN, Howard)
Rockville Centre, NY: South Side Senior High School, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. First and only edition. Quarto. 167pp. + ads. Decorated cloth. A trifle soiled, very near fine copy. Radio personality Howard Stern's Senior Class Year Book. Stern appears in jacket and tie in his Senior picture on page 45. There are many candid and club pictures, but we have foregone the pleasure of the hunt for Stern, and left it to the eventual purchaser to experience the possible wonderment of discovery.
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£516.16
Fantasy and the Cinema
by DONALD, James
London: BFI Publishing, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated. Slight soling and a small crease to the rear wrapper thus near fine.
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£15.88
Growing Pains: An Autobiography
by HARVEY, Basil
New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in attractive, near fine dustwrapper (illustratd by J. L. Carstairs) with a couple of very short tears. Autobiography of a millionaires son who eventually winds up on the stage.
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£59.56
Bette Davis
by WALKER, Alexander
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling to the head of the spine.
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£15.88
A Dummy Goes to Africa
by CAMERON, Rod
Joliet, Illinois: Mission Services Press, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Green cloth stamped in black. 297pp., frontispiece portrait (with dummy); illustrated from photographs; map. Church ownership inked on the front fly, slightly rubbed, very near fine, probably issued without dustwrapper. Account of a missionary who traveled to Rhodesia and Nyasaland with his family and his ventriloquist dummy. *OCLC* locates ten copies, all of them in Christian institutions.
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£218.38
Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations
by MAMET, David
New York: Cherry Lane Theatre, 1976. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Program for the stage play at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York.
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£19.85
Signed Card
by GAYNOR, Janet
Unbound. Fine. 5" x 3" index card Signed ("Janet Gaynor"). A large bold signature, about fine. Gaynor won the first Best Actress Academy Award.
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£39.70
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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£23.82
The Jack Wrangler Story or What's a Nice Boy Like You Doing
by WRANGLER, Jack and Carl Johnes
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 250pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with some soiling and general wear.
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£91.32
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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£19.85
Medium Cool
by MORDDEN, Ethan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof with publisher's material stapled to the front wrapper. Near fine in wrappers.
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£15.88
Sights and Spectacles: 1937-1956
by McCARTHY, Mary
New York: Farrar, straus and Giroux, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Light soiling to the boards else fine in a very good moderately soiled dustwrapper with a few small nicks to the ends of the spine and a slightly creased tear to the top of the front panel.
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£15.88
Sophia Loren: A Biography
by HARRIS, Warren G
(New York): Simon and Schuster, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers with a sticker shadow on the front wrapper.
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£15.88
THE YEAR'S WORK IN THE FILM 1949
London: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO, 1950. Softcover. Good. First edition. Good in wrappers with some pencil marks on the outer covers, spine darkened. Critics and other authorities on various aspects of the subject have contributed essays on feature, documentary and specialized films, the activities of the British Film Institute, recent film literature, on gramophone recordings of British film music, and on the work of the director Carol Reed.
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£15.88
Hanging On In Paradise
by GUILES, Fred Lawrence
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with a tear at the bottom edge of the front panel, scuffing.
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£19.85
THE NEW YORK TIMES DIRECTORY OF THE THEATRE
New York: ARNO PRESS, 1973. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Later printing. Good with small pieces of paper stuck to the covers, a tear in the top of the spine, in fair dustwrapper that is scuffed, with small tears and chips along the edges.
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£15.88
The Letters of Ruth Draper, 1920-1956: A Self-Portrait of a Great Actress
by WARREN, Neilla, edited by
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 362pp. Foreword by Sir John Gielgud. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Jacket illustrated by John Singer Sargent. Spine tail faded, a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with short tears along the extremities.
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£15.88
Famous Plays of 1933-1934
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 712pp. Some light fraying on the cloth along the rear spine fold, about very good without dustwrapper. Small label of an American bookstore on rear pastedown, and the ownership signature of Australian actor: "Cyril Ritchard, New York" on the front fly. Ritchard appeared on both stage and screen, but is best-known today for his appearance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin version of *Peter Pan.*.
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£119.12
Small Sounds In The Night
by SEVAREID, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 305pp. Jacket photograph by Robert Phillips. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman. Edges worn, near fine in a very good edgeworn dustwrapper. A collection of radio broadcasts during the Eisenhower era.
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£23.82
75 Years of the Oscars: The Offical History of the Academy Awards
by OSBORNE, Robert
New York: Abbeville Press, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Very slightly bowed else about fine in a near fine dustwrapper with rubbing and slight edgewear.
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£59.56
Hair on a Cue Ball: The Hair-raising Adventures of a Hollywood Writer
by MONETT, Negley
New York: Exposition, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, very good dustwrapper with a little rubbing, slight darkening at the spine and two unnecessary internal repairs. Fanciful vanity press autobiography of a screenwriter and TV writer who quit to become a highly successful consultant on hair care and baldness (and in the process got his own, brief running TV show). Odd, and scarce.
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£51.62
Those Fabulous Movie Years: The 30s
by TRENT, Paul
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A small faded spot at the bottom of the spine else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a small faded area at the bottom of the spine and one inch onto the front and rear panels, light wear at the top of the spine.
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£23.82