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New York: Chilton Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Daniel Blum, Theatre World, Season 1957-58, Vol. 14. Heavily illustrated with bw photos. Lists of actors with biographies, plus annual obituaries, limited index. Season 1957-1958, Philadephia, Chilton Company, gray cloth hc, taller 8vo, 256 pp; glossy blue and white DJ. Good/Good: spine bumped, light tanning and rippling on endpapers,… Read more

New York: Daniel C. Blum, 1948. First edition. Paperback. Good. Daniel Blum, Theatre World, Season 1947-48, Vol. IV. Heavily illustrated with bw photos. Lists of actors with biographies, plus annual obituaries, limited index. Season 1947-48, New York, author - Norman Macdonald, Stuyvesant Press Corp. Paperback, 8vo, 224 pp. Good: Covers coming loose, worn and scuffed, slight miscut with… Read more

Little, Brown & Co., 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Jane Halsman Bello, Steve Bello, Philippe Halsman; Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective, Little, Brown & Co., 1999, First edition. Oversized book of beautiful and quirky black-and-white portraits, not just of Hollywood stars, but artists, presidents, writers and thinkers. Black cloth hc, folio (32 cm), 212 pp. Near Fine/Very… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Paperback. Good. Daphne Davis, Stars!, New York, Fireside - Simon & Schuster, 1983. Stiff paper covers with photo of Meryl Streep on front and Indiana Jones with whip on back, 4to (28 cm), 280 pp, many bw and color photos. Highlights of movie stars from Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino to Marilyn… Read more

New York: Greenwich House, 1984. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Alfred Eisenstaedt, intro by Philip Kunhardt Jr., Eisenstaedt's Celebrity Portraits: Fifty Years of Friends and Acquaintances, New York, Greenwich House, 1984, later printing. Photos and facsimile autographs from the collection of Alfred Eisenstaedt, "Father of Photojournalism" who worked for Life magazine from its beginning. The collection includes not… Read more

Westport, Conn.: Arlington House, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. James Robert Parish, Gregory W. Mank, Richard G. Picchiarini, The Best of MGM: The Golden Years 1928-1959, Westport, Conn., Arlington House, 1981. Yellow cloth hc, 4to (28 cm), xxviii, 260 pp with index, bw photos; glossy yellow dustjacket with black film silhouette. Lists MGM movies alphabetically by title. Very… Read more

Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. John Russell Taylor, John Kobal, Portraits of the British Cinema - 60 Glorious Years 1925-1985, Salem, NH, Salem House, 1985, First American edition. Blue cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, folio (30 cm), 160 pp with name index, bw photos, photographer notes; glossy red dustjacket… Read more

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1981. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. John Kobal, Carlos Clarens, Hollywood Color Portraits, New York, William Morrow and Co., 1981, first American printing. Black cloth hc with gold lettering on spine, 4to (29 cm), 158 pp, many color full-page photos (no index); glossy color DJ with Humphrey Bogart on front and… Read more

Little, Brown & Co., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. James Silke, Here's Looking at You, Kid - 50 Years of fighting, working and dreaming at Warner Bros. [Brothers], Little, Brown & Co., 1976, First Edition. Red cloth hc with blind-stamped Warner Brothers logo on front, 4to (29 cm), 318 pp, heavily illustrated, no index; silver dustjacket with… Read more

Westport, Conn.: Arlington House, 1980. First edition. James Robert Parish, Gregory W. Mank, The Hollywood Reliables, Westport, Conn., Arlington House, 1980, First edition. Orange cloth hc with gold lettering on spine, folio (30 cm), [vi] 314 pp with index, bw photos; glossy gold dustjacket with small bw portraits on back. Profiles and filmographies of Dana Andrews, Wallace Beery, Pat… Read more

McGraw-Hill, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Paul Trent, Richard Lawton, The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour, McGraw-Hill, 1972, First Edition. Glamour shots of stars from 1910s silent era to 1960s bombshells. Black cloth hc, folio (30 cm), 328 pp, bw and color photos; glossy illustrated dustjacket with black background. Very Good/Good: spine slightly skewed, bottom… Read more

London: Spring Books, 1988. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/good. John Kobal, A history of movie musicals - Gotta Sing Gotta Dance, London, Spring Books, 1988, Revised. Buff cloth hc with blue lettering, 420 (29 cm), 320 pp with index, illustrated; dustjacket with photo of Fred Astaire and Ellie Powell on gold background. Very Good/Good: spine lightly bumped and skewed,… Read more

New American Library - The World Publishing Co. , 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Larry Swindell, Spencer Tracy ... A Biography, New American Library - The World Publishing Co., 1969, First Printing. Black cloth hc, 8vo, xii, 322 pp, 32 pp bw photos; white dustjacket with photo of Tracy and Hepburn on back. Good/Good: bumped, edge worn near… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Good/good. Lionel Godfrey, Cary Grant - The Light Touch, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1981, First Printing. Light blue-gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 8vo (21 cm), 224 pp with index, 24 pp bw photos; color dustjacket. Good/Good: spine and corners bumped, spine starting to skew but… Read more

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. James Robert Parish, Don E. Stanke, The Swashbucklers, New Rochelle, NY, Arlington House, 1976. Biographies of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Ronald Colman, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Stewart Granger, Victor Mature, Cornel Wilde and Tony Curtis. Blue cloth hc with metallic lettering on spine and blind-stamped publisher's logo on front,… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Peter Harry Brown, Pamela Ann Brown, The MGM Girls: Behind the Velvet Curtain, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1983, First Printing. Dark gray cloth hc with silver spine lettering, 8vo (23 cm), xvi, 288 pp with index, bw photos; bw photos on front of dark pink… Read more

New York: Macmillan, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Charles Higham, Bette: The Life of Bette Davis, New York, Macmillan, 1981, First Printing. White cloth spine with red metallic lettering over orange paper boards, 8vo, xx, 316 pp with index, 32 pp bw photos; glossy color dustjacket. Very Good/Very Good: corners bumped, small stains or foxing on… Read more

New York: Arcade, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Sheridan Morley, Ruth Leon, Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow, New York, Arcade, 1999, First American. Navy blue paper boards with silver spine lettering, square 8vo (24 cm), 168 pp with filmography and index, bw photos throughout and 8 pp color illustrations; glossy white DJ. Very Good/Good: lightly bumped,… Read more

New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Marc Eliot, Cary Grant: A Biography, New York, Three Rivers Press, 2004. Classy paper covers with bw portrait on white, 8vo (23 cm), [xii] 436 pp with index, bw photos, plus 16 glossy pp bw photos. Very Good: lightly bumped, no markings. printed in USA

New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1981. First American edition. Paperback. Good. Iain Johnstone, The Man with no name - The Biography of Clint Eastwood, New York, Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1981, first American edition. Paper covers with color photo of Eastwood on front, 4to (28 cm), 144 pp, bw photos throughout. Good: covers scuffed and creased, no markings. … Read more