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Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
by Larry McMurtry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671643088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671643089
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. SIGNED Bookplate. NF/NF. First Edition. First Printing with full number line ending with 1. Signed by Larry McMurtry on a "fiesta de Los Artes" bookplate. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with toning to flaps, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 159 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Larry McMurtry was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist but he was also an Oscar winner for his film and television screenwriting. This collection of 1980s essays is written with both an outsider's cool, ironic view of Hollywood but with an insider's direct experience. He takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
Larry McMurtry was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist but he was also an Oscar winner for his film and television screenwriting. This collection of 1980s essays is written with both an outsider's cool, ironic view of Hollywood but with an insider's direct experience. He takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3971
- Title
- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671643088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671643089
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 159
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.5
- Keywords
- hollywood, screen writing, essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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