Black Cloth Hardcover boards with gilt lettering on spine. Some light shadows on front and back endpapers. Text clean and binding tight. Some sun fading on top margin of hardcover.
DJ in good+ condition with some chipping and several small open tears to top margins of DJ. Not price clipped.
Work contains 93 illustrations and photographs, with 18 in full color. "Here is a marvelous- an unprecedented- experience of studio life (chaotic, frantic, driven, astonishingly productive) as it was lived day by day, detail by detail, department by department, at the most powerful and flamboyant studio Hollywood has ever known, at its moment of greatest power.
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Bookseller: Bonnie Lane Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12-05-2022-07
Title: The Making of the Wizard of Oz
Author: Aljean Hermetz
Format/Binding: Tight
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Jacket Condition: Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394409353
ISBN 13: 9780394409351
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1977
Pages: 329
Size: 9 7/16" x 6 1/4"
Keywords: MGM History, Judy Garland, Movie Production

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