Voices Offstage: A Book of Memoirs.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and green cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 258pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight and attractive first edition. More
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Pretty Poison: The Tuesday Weld Story.
New York: Barricade Books, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth spine and off-white paper over boards, dust jacket. 256pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Several margin abrasions on pp. 243-44. Tight, attractive first edition. More
The Films of Jean Harlow.
New York: The Citadel Press, [1965]. Hardcover. 4to. White cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 159pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn and rubbed; book would rate higher but for some inoffensive checkmarks inked on table of contents and some text pages. Tight, nice first..... More
The Films of Greta Garbo.
New York: Bonanza Books, n.y. Hardcover. With an introductory essay by Parker Tyler. 4to. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 155pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with edge chips; checkmarks inked on table of contents and some text pages. A tight, decent reprint edition. Pictorial album of photographs, cast..... More
A Decade of Masterpiece Theatre Masterpieces.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. 4to. Silver buckram spine and blue cloth. 236pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. First edition. More
Time Flies.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1987. Hardcover. Introduction by Alvin F. Poussiant. 8vo. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 176pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight, attractive first edition of the comedian's thoughts on aging, with an archival decorative-edged bookplate on front..... More
Eighty Years of Cinema.
South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Black paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 323pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight and nice first edition. More
Out of the Blue: A Book About Radio and Television.
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1952]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 301pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with some edge chips (mainly spine head/tail) and couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears. A tight and nice first edition of the first book..... More
Shakespearean Playgoing 1890-1952.
London: A.R. Mowbray & Co., [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 164pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with several small edge chips. A tight and quite nice first edition of this devout playgoer's half century-plus years of commentary on..... More
Unforgettable Hollywood.
New York: Quill, 1983. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 200pp). Extensive illustrations. Near fine. First softbound edition of this "Most Remarkable Collection of Candid Photographs of the Greatest Hollywood Stars from the 1930's to the 1960's." More
Some Time in the Sun.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan and green paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. 244pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Early (not first) printing of this study of (to quote the jacket front panel) "The Hollywood years of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley, and James Agee."..... More
Some Time in the Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathaniel West, Aldous Huxley, and James Agee.
[New York]: Penguin Books, [1981]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xi, 297pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. First paperback edition (slightly enlarged) of this literary history. On the front flyleaf, Dardis boldly signs and inscribes in blue fineline: "11/19/91 / For Ralph Gardner / Thanks! / Tom Dardis." Dardis..... More
The Industry: Life in the Hollywood Fast Lane.
New York: The New York Times Book Club, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth spine and white paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 278pp. Fine/near fine. First edition. Entertaining Hollywood memoir by this former Hollywood producer. More
The Industry: Life in the Hollywood Fast Lane.
New York: Times Books, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth spine and white paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 278pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
Collura: Actor with a Gun.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 221pp. Very good/very good. Small remainder inkstamp on bottom page edges. First edition of this tale of a soap opera actor who doubled as a New York undercover narcotics agent offscreen. More
Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes.
New York: Bramhall House, 1978. Hardcover. Foreword by Peter Cushing. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 175pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this pictorial overview of Sherlockian flicks. More
Drifting.
Hollywood: Mirisch-McCrea Productions, 1959. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers with two 2-pring brass clasps. 3pp, 35pp (all rectos only, white stock with occasional blue stock). Very good. Outer wrappers a bit edgeworn and soiled, with light vertical fold running down center. Original typed and mimeographed script for the fifth..... More
The Complete Films of Spencer Tracy.
New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 253pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. First paperback edition of this 1968 title, tight and attractive. More
The Films of W.C. Fields.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1966. Hardcover. Introduction by Arthur Knight. 4to. Black cloth. 192pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf; inked note on front flyleaf verso. First edition. Thorough reference source containing cast lists, plot summaries and reviews for all of Fields' films. More
The Films of W.C. Fields.
New York: Cadillac Publishing Co., 1966. Hardcover. Introduction by Arthur Knight. 4to. Black cloth. 192pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and nice reprint edition. Thorough reference source containing cast lists, plot summaries and reviews for all of Fields' films. More
"IMAGE" on the Art and Evolution of the Film: Photographs and Articles from the Magazine of the International Museum of Photography.
New York: Dover Publications, 1979. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. viii, 248pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this Dover original. More
The Films of Katharine Hepburn.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1971. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 244pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed, with several archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears and one edge chip; contents page bears a number of small inked checkmarks. Tight, attractive first edition. More
Publicity Photograph ("The Curse of the Fly").
Glossy black-and-white 7" X 9" publicity photograph of Donlevy in "The Curse of the Fly," depicting Donlevy in surgical scrubs holding up a hypodermic needle. 1972. Fine. An "ABC Television Network" release. More
From Scarface to Scarlett: American Films in the 1930s.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxiv, 648pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; small checkmarks inked on index pages. Tight, nice first edition. More
The Gift.
New York: Warner Books, 1992. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Near fine/near fine. Third printing, tight and handsome, of this Hollywood suspense novel, boldly inscribed by the leading man in black fineline on the title page: "To / Jim and / Sondra..... More