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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 436. 8vo. Bound in gray cloth. Light scuffing and soiling, darkening to slightly slanted spine, nameplate to front pastedown, protected with hard plastic sleeve; very good.
Hollywood: The Movie Colony, The Movie Makers (SIGNED COPY) by Rosten, Leo C - 1941
by Rosten, Leo C
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Hollywood: The Movie Colony, The Movie Makers (SIGNED COPY)
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941 Second Printing (November, 1942) of the First Edition in original $4.00-priced dust jacket SIGNED by Leo Rosten with personalized inscription ("for Howard Woolfan / Leo Rosten / Merry Christmas! 1945") direct to front endpaper, jacket rubbed with quiet soil & slight creasing & chipping to edges, gray cloth boards show some effacement of the white-stamped titles to the front panel & spine (most gone from the spine) & softening to the spine ends, red topstain a little faded & the page block age-toned, else clean tight nice early printing of the First Edition signed by the author, quite scarce as such (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; (xii) 436pp indexed . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Publisher Harcourt, Brace & Co
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1941
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Hollywood; The Movie Colony the Movie Makers
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Hollywood: the Movie Colony; the Movie Makers
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NY: Harcourt Brace. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth stamped in white and orange, orange topstain. Stated first edition. Slight rubbing to titles and board edges, slightest corner bumps, trace soil, bookplate, lightly toned pages. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, edgeworn/creased, slightly soiled, dampstained to bottom half with some moisture wrinkling. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Hollywood: The Movie Colony, the Movie Makers
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good solid copy, minor shelfwear, attractive vintage custom bookplate of one-time owner William Bond Murphy on front pastedown; jacket spine a little faded, with some paper loss at both ends, but the front- and rear-panel sections of the wraparound jacket illustration are fully intact and very attractive]. Based on "over three years of research, observation and work in Hollywood [by] the author and a staff of social scientists which included two sociologists, an economist, a personnel expert, a statistician, a translator, and others," this was the first serious attempt to conduct an examination of Hollywood as a social system rather than an industry. The research was supported by grants from both the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations (and how many books could make that claim?), and had an advisory board that included Robert S. Lynd (of "Middletown"…
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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1941. First edition. Cloth, fine in near-fine dust jacket which is slightly faded on the spine.
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