Montgomery Clift; Beautiful Loser
by Barney Hoskyns
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802115128
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115126
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992 Grove Weidenfeld, New York. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Bump to rear board at top in middle. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($30.00); bump to top rear of jacket with small wrinkle near rear gutter. Black boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 192 pp 4to. This book reveals Montgomery Clift as never before, both in rare archival photographs, many of them previously unpublished, and in the author's powerful text. In his reexamination of the life and performances of this extraordinary actor, he gives us an inclusive and new portrait of a Hollywood misfit who never knew what he was or what he wanted to be. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006423
- Title
- Montgomery Clift; Beautiful Loser
- Author
- Barney Hoskyns
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802115128
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115126
- Publisher
- Grove Weidenfeld
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Montgomery Clift, movie actors, Hollywood, movie stars, male movie stars,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.