Search Results: Hollywood Memorabilia from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Los Angeles: American Cinematographer Magazine. 1969. Small 4to, embossed hardcover. Presentation copy from film edit or Herb A. Lightman to the Watts Training Center. Very good. .

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press. 1989. 1st ed., softcover. limited to 300 copies signed by James Whale a nd publisher James Pepper. A tiny bit of wear adjacent to the sta ples on the spine; otherwise a pristine copy. .

1st ed., 8vo, yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 247 [1] pp.
Charles Brackett practiced law for several years before being hired as drama critic at The New Yorker, on the strength of his short stories for The Saturday Evening Post and his second novel, Week-End. He left New York to work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and had his greatest success in a long-running collaboration with Billy Wilder, including Ninotchka, The Lost Weekend and Sunset Blvd. "Entirely Surrounded" is a humorous novel about nineteen-thirties New Yorkers who holiday in Vermont. Many of the characters are stand-ins for a who's who of the Algonquin Club; Brackett was one of the members of that literary social circus and he dedicates the novel to "Dorothy" [Parker]. Brackett also became a film producer as well as president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938-1939) and president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955. He won three Academy Awards (for writing the scripts for The Lost Weekend… Read More

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. 1984. 1st. edition, INSCRIBED by Horst and author Valentine Lawford to Connie Wald, the wife of Hollywood producer/writer Jerry Wald. A very good copy overall, but with spotting on the back cover and a half-page unrelated gift inscription on the front end-paper. Dus t jacket is good only, with two 1/2-inch closed tears near the sp ine and several smaller nicks .

Los Angeles: Architectural Book Publishing. Good. 1930. 1st edition. Signed by Oscar-winning set designer Walter Scott . 1st ed, folio, black cloth, gilt titles. Xv [3] 173 pp. A look at the architecture and landscape architecture of early Mexico. Fro m 1925-1929, Garrison and Rustay set out to record a select numbe r of examples of the 'minor domestic architecture' of Mexico. The y recorded a limited number of individual buildings through a mix ed presentation of photographs, perspective and measured drawings , elevations, floor plans and details to produce a highly useful tool for architects designing Hispanic buildings. Profuse photogr aphic plates, line drawings, and plans. While the book is still i n print, the first edition is difficult to find. Ex Libris the li brary of Oscar winning set designer Walter M. Scott, with his sig nature on the half-title page. Scott was a set decorator who work ed on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and television… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the FEP and second flyle af. Orson Welles’ inked signature at bottom of fep, and possibl y a second time above -- the lower signature is clearly Welles -- the upper signature has indicial of Welles’s wide variety of s ignatures, but also some unfamiliar characteristics. One can onl y speculate on the connection -- but the presence of snow plays s mall but vital roles in both Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Amb ersons and this, one of Whittier’s most famous poems is present ed as a series of stories told by a family while sitting out a sn owstorm. #### . , chipping to upper spine; some soiling. Interior: RKO Studios… Read More

Atheneum, New York. Fine. 1960. 1st ed.. 8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition. . s was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelis t. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Isl and in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisa n in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He rec eived another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In televis ion he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any s horter than ’Loss of Roses’”. The reference is to William I nge’s 1959 Broadway play “A Loss of Roses” which Wald had o ptioned and later filmed in 1963 with Joanne Woodward and Carol L inley. A fine copy in near fine… Read More

The Council, Beverly Hills. Fine. Black cloth. 1947. 1st edition. 1st ed., limited to 250 numbered copies. 8vo, black cloth/gilt ti tles. 432pp. . SP-PCA—Progressive Citizens of America—sponsored a massive pu blic meeting protesting HUAC and the increasing use of loyalty oa ths. They provided important public and financial support to the Hollywood Ten, a subset of the nineteen originally subpoenaed who were held in contempt and subsequently blacklisted by the Hollyw ood film industry. ASP-PCA also worked on intellectual freedom is sues beyond the confines of Hollywood. In 1947, it organized “T hought Control in the U.S.A.,” a small professional conference that protested the encroachment of control and censure into acade mia and everyday life -- this book is the record of those proceed ings. . als] specially printed for Frank Partos". Frank Partos was an Ame rican screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Actors… Read More

Vantage Press. Near fine. 1967. 1st edition. NY: Vantage Press, 1967. 1st ed., 8vo. 111 pages. Maroon cloth wi th silver lettering to spine in original dj. A near fine review c opy in fair dust-jacket. The book has a ½” hairline crack at the bottom of the frontgutter and some very minor shelf-wear on b ottom edge. The dustjacket is not price-clipped but has two open tears on front [1” & ½”], wear to edges, and a large damp-st ain on the back not affecting the book. A hilarious autobiograph y by this "unique" actor. Illustrated with 32 b/w photographs. La id in is a publisher’s review slip and press release “This is not a great book, but it is never dull.” .