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Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Edition. Confirm of BCE is blind stamped square on bottom of rear cover. Copyright page from Macmillian contains number line indicating third printing. Size 6 1/2"" wide x 9 1/2"". Hard cover with orange boards, cream spine lettering, and orange gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing; no markings noted. mellow age toning to the papers. Contains two sections of 8 leaves/16 pages each of black & white photographs. Concludes with an Author's Note, chronology of Bette Davis' Performances on Stage and in Film, and an extensive Index. 316 numbered pages.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Wraps in very good condition with only light shelf & edge wear. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted.

NY: A Dutton Book, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Two sections of black and white photos. Dust jacket in very good condition; no price on jacket flap. No indication that it is a BCE. No edition statement or number line. Smaller format : 8 1/2 x 5 3/4. Possibly a later reprint. * From the book, ""Writing with the encouragement of his famous mother, Lauren Bacall, Stephen calls on his memories, and takes full advantage of the extraordinary access he has had to friends and colleagues of his father. The result is an intimate and personal profile of an enigmatic man whose tough image contrasted with very human ambitions and vulnerabilities. It is also a vastly entertaining book, filled with fascinating stories involving Frank Sinatra, Katherine Hepburn, Swifty"" Lazar, John Huston, Stephen Bogart's stepfather, Jason Robards, and many others.""

New York: Random House Inc, 1979. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book Club Edition. Hard cover in very good condition with maroon boards, red panel on spine with gold gilt rule and lettering of title & author; smaller rectangle on front board with author's initials; right corner of front board show light spotting. Publisher name in gold gilt on bottom of spine. Dark beige end papers. Interior text block clean & tight with mellow age toning to the papers. Contains two sections each eight leaves/16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket good with shelf & edge wear; rubbing at corners; small chips. * The story of three brothers, centered around the one brother, Alex, who stood at the center of their story. From the jacket flap, "". . . It was Alex who led the brothers from a remote Hungarian peasant village into the early silent-film world of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, and to the great studios of Hollywood and London as talking pictures… Read More

Warner Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition July 2006 plus complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Lavender end papers with six black & white photos of Elizabeth scattered across the front board and ffp; small 3/8"" triangle loss of lavender on verso of front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. * A detailed and comprehensive biography of Elizabeth Taylor...""it is the story of a woman you thought you knew - and can now finally begin to understand.""

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Both Stated in words: First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with light gray boards, darker gray spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Contains a black & white photo of each of the 'icons' portrayed in the book at the beginning of their individual chapters. Dust jacket in very good condition; light shelf & edge wear; rubbing to paper at folds; rubbed scar to top right corner of front panel - appears to be from removal of a price sticker; not price clipped. * A look at the Cultural Icons of our time: Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, Paul Newman, Nastassia Kinski, Bob Dylan, David Lean, George Lucas, Bette Midler, Oliver Stone, Michael Jackson. As the jacket flap states, ""the comings and goings of these cultural icons are the stuff of tabloid reportage,.... [this]… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards, light brown spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering; light shelf wear; bump to head of spine. Interior text block clean & tight with no writings, no markings noted. Contains eight leaves / 16 pages of glossy black & white photographs. Dust jacket very good with light shelf wear; shadow of crease to top front near spine; has been price clipped. * From the jacket back flap, ""A proud and passionate woman, Hellman as she really was comes into brilliant focus in Wright's critical yet compassionate examination of her life and work. Complemented by a striking selection of photographs. . . . an absorbing and immensely readable book.""

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First American edition 1997. In addition, contains complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with rose-red boards, black spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. Contains black & white illustrations & photographs throughout. Dust jacket likewise very good; light edge wear to corners; dog-eared crease line at bottom of back flap; not price clipped. * From a review by David Thomson, ""A rapturous, giddy, and irrepressible book . . . Let us be clear: This is a delight, a marvel of research . . .and a superb argument for the case that William Claude Dukinfield (1880-1946) was, and is, the greatest comic the movies have given us.""

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition. No other printings noted; same date on Title Page and Copyright Page. Hard cover in very good condition with red boards, red spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 165 black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition; small closed tear at heel of spine; wrinkles at head of spine. * From the jacket, ""At long last: Katharine Hepburn on Katharine Hepburn. . . .Throwing aside her performing personality she reveals the person behind the persona in a vivid, unforgettable self-portrait: Katharine Hepburn as we have never seen her before.""

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Book Club Edition. Hard cover in good condition with white & red boards and silver spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Contains two sections, each 4 leaves / 8 pages of black & white photos. Dust jacket in very good condition with just a ghost of shelf & edge wear. * From the book, ""Throughout her life Hepburn has spoken her mind, mixing a native Yankee forthrightness with the social conscience she learned from her parents and her own brand of stubbornness. She blasted McCarthyites and chauvinists, ridiculed the press and snapped at fans who took pictures of her. And she reveled in her own pranks and peculiarities, never performing the expected. Her love, her loyalty, her great courage have known no bounds. Hepburn is a woman determined and unique.""

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Publishers, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition per publisher convention with no additional printings noted. Light gray boards contain blind imprint of title on front. Black spine cloth with silver spine lettering. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. DJ very good with light shelf & edge wear and age toning to the white of flaps; not price clipped. 16 pages of black & white photographs. Concludes with Notes on chapters, a Bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing Stated First Edition. Black boards with spine cloth of thinly blue speckled beige cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine top & bottom slightly bumped as is front bottom corner. End papers display magazine covers featuring Tab Hunter (see photo). Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Contains two sections of eight leaves / sixteen pages each of black & white photos with other photos throughout the text. DJ very good with only the gentlest shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. Ghost of a former crease on top back (see photo). * From the front flap, ""Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets ""discovered' by a big-time movie agent. . . he will become a star. . . ""