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1973WRCLIT79418Carbondale & London: SIU Press / Feffer & Simons 1973. Gilt cloth. Preface by Harry T. Moore. First edition issued in the Crosscurrents series. Fine in near very good price-clipped slightly rubbed dust jacket with a few small nicks including two in the spine panel. SIU Press / Feffer & Simons hardcover books
199716523New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight straight copy of the first hardcover edition; one page corner turned down else very Near Fine in a crisp unworn dustwrapper. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
196131411New York: Harper and Brothers 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 274 pp. "A shrewd and vastly entertaining look at the lights and shadows of Hollywood with portraits of some of its leading citizens - the sick the well the geniuses and the otherwise" A well-thumbed copy in very good condition in very good dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author to rock and roll journalist Al Aronowitz. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
199531467New York: Carol Publishing Group 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 190 pp. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A biography of the Hollywood icon. Very good condition in dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author to fellow journalist Al Aronowitz. Carol Publishing Group hardcover books
195047568n.p. 1950. Card stock self wrappers slip stapled in black lettering. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some foxing to wrappers dusty edges are corners are rubbed. Internally clean and bright. Bifolium with slip. Pictorial exterior wrappers internally decorative. 13-1/2" x11" <br/><br/> unknown books
193512634JNew York: M. Witmark & Sons 1935. First Edition Thus. Sheet music with words and music for the song from the Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy starring film. With photographs of MacDonald and Eddy on the front cover. Very good. M. Witmark & Sons unknown books
198212947JNew York: Delilah 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Hollywood actress Gwen Seager: “For Gwen - the golden girl of ‘the golden voice’ with thanks for being as lovely to be with. John Kobal.†Additionally signed with five signed presentation inscriptions from film director Bruce Martin and members of the crew of the documentary film Screen Dreams - The Hollywood Pinup based on this book of which Gwen Seager appeared in. Laid in is the original letter from the film production company asking her to appear with much information about the production as well as another thanking her for participating in the film. A superb collection of vintage black & white and color photographs of some of the most stunning women to grace the Hollywood screen. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Delilah unknown books
193016010JNew York: Vanguard Press 1930. First Edition First Printing. A few small aging spots to cloth otherwise very good plus in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears. Notoriously rare in dust jacket. The front cover colorful artwork depicts a scantily clad beautiful actress posed in recline on a film set with a director and film crew photographing her. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition Budd Schulberg wrote “.in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels The Day of the Locust What Makes Sammy Run and The Last Tycoon.†The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication multi-millionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write the screenplay. Hughes biggest problem turned out to be that stars were extremely reluctant to appear in a film that attacked the Hollywood studio system. Hughes initially wanted to cast Jack Oakie and William Haines but Paramount and MGM refused to loan them out. Unable to secure a significant cast Hughes ended the production after spending over $100000 of 1930s dollars in its preparation. Vanguard Press hardcover books
193015984JNew York: Vanguard Press 1930. First Edition First Printing. Signed by the authors: "Carroll and Garrett Graham June 19 1930". On the front pastedown is the engraved theatrical scene bookplate of Fritz Tidden who was the Hollywood publicist for great silent film director Erich von Stroheim and is known to have been one of only 12 people at a special screening who was shown the complete Greed Von Stroheim’s 1924 massive uncut 42 reel film masterpiece before it was dramatically cut by the studio to only 10 reels. A few small stains to cloth otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears with the words office file copy stamped in a blank space on the rear panel. The front cover colorful artwork depicts a scantily clad beautiful actress posed in recline on a film set with a director and film crew photographing her. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition Budd Schulberg wrote “.in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels The Day of the Locust What Makes Sammy Run and The Last Tycoon.†The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication multi-millionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write the screenplay. Hughes biggest problem turned out to be that stars were extremely reluctant to appear in a film that attacked the Hollywood studio system. Hughes initially wanted to cast Jack Oakie and William Haines but Paramount and MGM refused to loan them out. Unable to secure a significant cast Hughes ended the production after spending over $100000 of 1930s dollars in its preparation. Vanguard Press hardcover books
1948197491New York Grayson Publishing ca. 1948. 1948. Oblong 4to. 56 pages of gravures printed by Beck Gravure plus 8 page supplement added for this "enlarged edition." Spiral bound stiff printed pictorial red and green wrappers. Very good. Primarily studies of female nudes but with seven illustrations of male "beefcake" at the end. No signatures or bookplates. Soft cover. New York, Grayson Publishing [ca. 1948]. paperback books
195020930ESimi Valley CA: Corriganville Movie Ranch n.d. 1950s. Original 1950’s Studio Pass to Corriganville Movie Ranch Film Studio for Hollywood Columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Textured beige cardstock with Western Film decorative elements. 3 5/8†x 2 1/4†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Jimmy Starr and party typed at the top of the card 195__. Corriganville Privilege Card for Two Only Member’s Signature Jimmy Starr signed by him in ink Not Transferable By ___ illegible signature Present at Service Gate Only No. 252.†With a small image of a cowboy on horseback and a film camera director and lighting decorating the top corners. Blank on the verso. Fine condition. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Corriganville Movie Ranch was a working film studio and movie ranch used for outdoor location shooting as well as a Western-themed tourist attraction. It was owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan is located in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in the Santa Susana Pass area of Simi Valley in eastern Ventura County California and is currently a public park. Some of the best known film and television productions using background scenery shot at the ranch include Fort Apache 1948 directed by John Ford starring John Wayne Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory 1952 with Clayton Moore The Robe 1953 screenplay by Philip Dunne starring Richard Burton Jean Simmons and Victor Mature and the television series The Lone Ranger with Jay Silverheels and Clayton Moore The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Sky King and Star Trek. Corriganville Movie Ranch unknown books
1915146857Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball held February 13 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors directors producers and others and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce with only two copies in OCLC. <br/><br/>The Photoplayer's Club was a short lived social club for both men and women that had members from throughout the motion picture industry including "actors directors camera men technical men owners manufacturers and managers" and sought the provide a space where they could meet "in 'clubby' equality" and "may talk shop may eat drink and make merry." <br/><br/>As such the program provides a broad survey of both the major and minor players in the earliest days of the film industry as it established itself in Hollywood with each photograph identified with a caption and most actors and directors grouped with the studios or film production companies they were associated with. <br/><br/>12 x 9 inches in brown titled wrappers. About Very Good with loss and separation to the spine light chipping and few short closed tears with a brief dampstain to the lower corner of the page block. Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles unknown books
193820931ELos Angeles: Walter Wanger Productions 1938. Original 1938 Studio Pass to Walter Wanger Productions for Hollywood Columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Bright orange and red cardstock 3 7/8†x 2 1/4†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Walter Wanger Productions 1045 North Formosa Avenue Name Jimmy Star typed Publication Herald & Express typed Valid Until June 30 1938 Russell Phelps signed in ink Publicity Director.†With “Press Pass†printed along the outer edges. On the verso is a printed set of basic terms regarding the bearer’s use of the pass with Jimmy Starr’s signature in ink. Fine condition. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Walter Wanger was a film producer in Hollywood beginning his career at Paramount Picture in the 1920s and later at his own unsuccessful production company. Some of the films produced by Walter Wanger from 1938 Mr. Starr may have enjoyed include such popular productions as Trade Winds with Frederic March Joan Bennett and Ralph Bellamy Algiers with Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr Blockade with Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda and I Met My Love Again with Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda. Some of Wanger’s best known films include Joan of Arc 1948 with Ingrid Bergman Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter and Cleopatra directed and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Walter Wanger Productions unknown books
193641091NY: Macfadden 1936. Reprint. 12mo pp. 139. Illustrated with photographs. Orange paper over boards stamped in black. Pencil drawings on rear pastedown corner torn out of rear flyleaf tear at top of one leaf cover somewhat scuffed and soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Beauty advice. The author was a columnist for Photoplay Magazine and had a radio program as well as a practice working with Hollywood actresses. Interesting contrast with contemporary trainers! Macfadden unknown books
1937020786New York New York: MacFadden Book Company Inc. Good. 1937. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Orange boards with black lettering on front cover. Black illustration on front cover and spie. Spine is faded along top and bottom edges and is worn at the creases. An illustrated guide for women who want to be successful and famous. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 139 pp . MacFadden Book Company, Inc. hardcover books
1922WRCLIT49410Garden City & Toronto: Doubleday Page & Co. 1922. Cloth. Faint old discoloration on top and fore-edge at the upper fore-corner otherwise a very good copy in the scarce pictorial dust jacket the latter with a couple of old inner mends some overall dust-darkening some short tears and chipping at the crown of the spine panel just touching the top line of letterpress and some surface abrasions to the text on the lower panel. First edition of this fictional send-up of the film industry at the time itself the basis for several film adaptations. This copy bears the author's inscription on the front free endsheet: "To Sam Marx: It's funny in spots - but the picture business is funnier at least to yours truly Harry Leon Wilson." The candidates for recipient include either the producer suggesting a date a few years later than publication for the inscription or the father of the Marx Bros. Uncommon in dust jacket. SMITH W-717. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
194247394Hollywood 1942. 1st Printing. Card stock self wrappers full color illustration to upper wrapper slip is a leaf of off white card stock all lettering printed in navy blue slip held in by a metal clip. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Very light soiling otherwise bright. 4 pp. unnumbered. One slip. Illustrated upper wrapper. 11-1/2" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown books
195224471London UK: Angus McBean Photographer Temple Bar 1952. Large format black and white photograph mounted on studio cardstock. Signed at the bottom left corner in pencil on the mount cardstock by British photographer Angus McBean 1904 - 1990 ".When his photographs were shown in 1976 as a retrospective exhibition at Impressions Gallery York and two years later at the National Theatre the significance of his work within the history of British photography was finally recognized. Acknowledged too was his place as an elder statesman of the burgeoning and culturally progressive international gay community." Val Williams rev. in the ODNB. Also signed by American actress Katharine Hepburn 1907 - 2003 in pencil next to the photographer's signature. In the summer of 1952 Katharine Hepburn starred in The Millionairess for a ten-week run at the New Theatre in London's West End; this image appears to be from that production; with the photographic studio stamps on the back of the mount. Approx. 11 1/2" x 14 1/2" size; cardstock edges worn with small scrapes and creases at the edges top corner chipped away bottom corner creased soft. Short 1/4" closed tear at left margin of the photo with little crease at that point. A very clear and very good portrait of the actress in a characteristically dramatic role. Signed by Photographer. Photography. Not Bound. Good. Illus. by Angus McBean. Angus McBean Photographer Temple Bar Paperback books
193822696ELondon: Faber and Faber 1938. First Edition - British. A used and handled copy with some tape marks at the endpapers a bit of fading to the cloth at the spine some rubbing and a few tiny edge tears without dust jacket. A classic Hollywood novel published under the pseudonym of Jane Shore and Silvia Schulman who had been employed as a personal secretary to famed producer David O. Selznick in the mid-1930’s but had left her position to marry screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. from whom she divorced in 1945. The narrative of the story is obviously based on Schulman’s experiences as an innocent in Hollywood and her adventures with Selznick and Lardner. It was no secret that Selznick was outraged by the book’s publication and tried unsuccessfully to prevent Orson Welles from adapting it for broadcast on January 27 1939 on the CBS radio program Campbell Playhouse. Faber and Faber hardcover books
193115715JNew York: Brentano’s 1931. First Edition First Printing. Very good copy in original sliver stamped cloth without dust jacket. Sylvia of Hollywood 1881-1975 was a Hollywood fitness guru. As Wikipedia notes “Hollywood Undressed revealed intimate details of Sylvia's famous Hollywood clientele which included Jean Harlow Marie Dressler Mae Murray Alice White Bebe Daniels Mary Duncan Ramón Novarro Ruth Chatterton Ann Harding Norma Talmadge Grace Moore Constance Bennett Gloria Swanson Nella Webb F.W. Murnau Elsie Janis Ernest Torrence Lawrence Tibbett Laura Hope Crews Ronald Colman Constance Cummings Ina Claire John Gilbert Carmel Myers Helen Twelvetrees Carole Lombard Ilka Chase Dorothy Mackaill Pepi Lederer Marion Davies Neil Hamilton Alan Hale Sr and Vivienne Segal†Brentano’s hardcover books
19475354NChicago: Harlich Manufacturing 1947. First Edition. With a printed introduction by actor Jean Hersholt. A 13†x 10 1/2†photo-style album the inner pages printed in blue ink with “quiz†pages reproducing movie star signatures and squares for filling in the correct colored stamps. The stamps themselves are produced in a variety of colors with black & white portraits and feature such stars as Basil Rathbone in a drawn Sherlock Holmes outfit Lauren Bacall Bette Davis next to an image of her in the role of Queen Elizabeth Joseph Cotten Marlene Dietrich Gene Autry Heddy Lamarr Ray Milland Rita Hayworth Lassie Trigger as well as a “Star Deck†series with caricatures of the stars on playing cards with actors such as Charles Laughton Peter Lorre Karloff as the Monster Harold Lloyd and too many more to list. An almost complete album with only a couple pages unfilled. A charming book with gilt embossed covers showing a large stamp with the faces of Comedy and Tragedy surrounded by movie star signatures. About fine. Harlich Manufacturing unknown books
1961305336Inglewood California 1961. 1961. First edition. 15 1/2" x 9" 8 panel full color folding brochure. Area map on back panel. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. No Binding. Very Good. Inglewood, California, 1961. unknown books
1948134704New York: Boni and Gaer 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28 1948."<br/><br/>Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities HUAC hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson 1888-1976 in order to retain future employment. Robeson an All-American football player and recipient of a Phi Beta Kappa key at Rutgers received a law degree at Columbia. He became an internationally acclaimed concert performer and actor as well as a persuasive political speaker. <br/><br/>In 1949 Robeson was the subject of controversy after newspapers reports of public statements that African Americans would not fight in "an imperialist war." In 1950 his passport was revoked. Several years later Robeson refused to sign an affidavit stating that he was not a Communist and initiated an unsuccessful lawsuit. In the following testimony to a HUAC hearing ostensibly convened to gain information regarding his passport suit Robeson refused to answer questions concerning his political activities and lectured bigoted Committee member Gordon H. Scherer and chairman Francis E.Walter on African-American history and civil rights leading to the now historic statement: "You are the Un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves."<br/><br/>Nearly ten years later in 1958 the Supreme Court ruled that a citizen's right to travel could not be taken away without due process and Robeson' passport was returned. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a bright Very Good plus dust jacket. <br/><br/>Bentley p. 770. Boni and Gaer unknown books
193265709Four Miniature Flip Books Each Featuring A Star HOLLYWOOD. Hollywood Motion Picture Flip Books. Film Star Movie Books featuring Jean Harlow Joan Crawford Marion Davies and Marie Dressler. New York: Moviebook Corporation n.d.c.a. 1932. Four miniature flip books all in original wrappers each featuring a movie star and her biography. The stars included in this set are Jean Harlow Joan Crawford Marion Davies and Marie Dressler. 2 7/16 x 1 13/16 inches; 62 x 46 mm. Covers with a portrait of the star and twenty-four pages of photos from a movie scene which creates a flip book effect. The biography is printed under each picture. Printed on stiff photo paper in black and white. Some browning and wear. A chip to the top of Joan Crawford. A brown stain to covers of Crawford and Harlow which both bleed through a few pages only the stain on Crawford is affecting the photo. A bit dusty. Overall very good. The back page states "Send 10c for each book desired or $1.00 for complete set of 12." Other stars that were available were Norma Shearer Greta Garbo Clark Gable John Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Robert Montgomery Wallace Beery and Ramon Navarro. HBS 65709. $750 Moviebook Corporation unknown books
196048631n. p. 1960. 1st Printing. Thick tan paper printed to recto and verso. Full illustration to recto printed in grays red lettering reads "Scandia" to head. Verso printed in red and black with 11 smaller vignettes. Small punctured hole to head - made for a ribbon tie Menu now housed in a mylar sleeve. A G/VG copy. Age toning to the menu especially edges. Some darker burn marks to head and tail a small pin hole to upper corner. Horizontal crease due to being folded. Some rubbing to edges. Menu items still clean and legible. Loose leaf. Full page illustration by Danish illustrator and writer Hakon Mielche to recto. Small vignettes to verso. 19-1/2" x 13-1/4" <br/><br/>"One of the fanciest restaurants in Los Angeles was located at 9040 Sunset Boulevard just west of Doheny. A man named Ken Hansen originally opened it across the street in 1947. Ten years later he moved into its more famous location and began serving Scandinavian cuisine to a rich and famous clientele. His sister-in-law Teddy Hansen served as the hostess in charge of greeting and seating the beautiful people and she knew everybody. In the early seventies the Hansens sold Scandia to magazine publisher Bob Petersen he of the automotive magazines. By then the character of Sunset Boulevard was beginning to change. Other businesses in that area including the Roxy nightclub and the Rainbow Bar and Grill attracted a younger rowdier crowd. Every night police were busting drug dealers within yards of Scandia and it did a lot to drive Scandia’s older wealthy clientele to other newer eateries. The place finally closed in 1989." oldrestaurants website unknown books
