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Scenic Art For The Theatre: History, Tools and Techniques
by CRABTREE, Susan and Peter Beudert
Boston: Focal Press, 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers.
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A$61.98
Chimney Rock
by SMITH, Charlie
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with corners lightly bumped.
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A$30.99
Preston Sturges
by STURGES, Preston
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Adapted and edited by Sandy Sturges. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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A$30.99
With Powder on My Nose
by BURKE, Billie with Cameron Shipp
New York: Coward-McCann, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in crisp and bright fine dustwrapper with a little smudge on the front panel. Second autobiography by the wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, best known for her role as Glinda, Good Witch of the North.
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A$154.94
Blood and Celluloid
by JACOB, Heinrich Eduard
New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. A bit of erosion to the cloth at the bottom of the boards, else near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with some moderate chipping and light splash marks on the spine. A novel about a German film company on location in Sardinia.
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A$232.41
Pappy: The Life of John Ford
by FORD, Dan
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author (the son of John Ford) to director Garson Kanin.
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A$116.21
There Ought to Be a Law and Other Stories
by JOHNSON, Nunnally
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Some soiling to the spine, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Holger, representing Sweden in a tremendous international friendship with that true blue American, Nunnally. June 20, 1931." The recipient, Holger Cahill, was the National Director of the Federal Art Project, Works Projects Administration (1935 to 1943) - Johnson was either mistaken, or being facetious: Cahill was actually born in...
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A$1,007.11
Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television
by RITCHIE, Michael
Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1994. Softcover. Very Good. Advanced reading copy. Quarto. Wrappers. Some dampstaining on the page edge not affecting the text else very good.
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A$61.98
All The King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration
by WILSON, John Harold
Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper.
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A$54.23
The Doctor and the Devils and Other Scripts
by THOMAS, Dylan
New York: New Directions, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. The author's first book length narrative, loosely arranged as a film script. A nice copy.
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A$116.21
A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal, 1996-98
by GUINNESS, Alec
(New York): Viking, 1999. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in glossy wrappers.
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A$30.99
Garbo
by BAINBRIDGE, John
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 256pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner's sticker on pastedowns, binding slightly cocked, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper.
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A$30.99
Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins
by WINECOFF, Charles
(New York: Dutton, 1996. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reading copy. Fine in glossy wrappers with publisher's newsletter laid in.
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A$38.74
Elizabeth Taylor: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of a Hollywood Legend
by AMBURN, Ellis
(London): Robson Books, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Photographic illustrations.
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A$30.99
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
by McCANN, Graham
New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed light blue wrappers. Illustrated with xeroxed black and white photographs. Publisher's date noted on spine, else fine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in.
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A$30.99
Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise
by BERGAN, Ronald
Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1994. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers.
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A$30.99
Hollywood Agent
by LEE, James
New York: Macaulay, 1937. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, spine lettering a little rubbed, else about fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
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A$77.47
Wars I Have Seen
by STEIN, Gertrude
New York: Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Cloth with paper spine label. A shabby good only copy lacking dustwrapper. Actress Ruth Gordon's copy with her ownership signature in red pencil on the front fly:"Ruth Gordon April 23, 1937 Chicago.
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A$348.62
A History of the Movies
by HAMPTON, Benjamin B
New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A little sunning on the front board that corresponds to a chip on the jacket, else near fine in attractive, very good dustwrapper with the aforementioned chip. Important and early history of the industry.
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A$464.82
Broadway Stories: A Backstage Journey Through Musical Theatre
by BELL, Marty
New York: Sue Katz & Associates, 1993. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Lacks photos. Fine in glossy wrappers.
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A$54.23
Dorfsman and CBS
by HESS, Dick and Marion MULLER
New York: American Showcase, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Very light bumps to the corners else fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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A$309.88
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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A$178.18
Roberta (VHS Tape of the movie)
by HARBACH, Otto
1987. Unbound. Near Fine. Fine. The VHS tape of the movie based on the book by Harbach. Starring Irene Dunn, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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A$38.74
No Bells on Sunday: The Rachel Roberts Journals
by WALKER, Alexander, edited with a documentary biography by. (Rachel Roberts)
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Octavo. 246pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with small faint dampstain on bottom corners.
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A$30.99
Indonesian Cinema: National Culture on Screen
by HEIDER, Karl G
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. Tall octavo. 154, [4]pp. Very near fine.
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A$38.74
