Show Business
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Mia Farrow: Flower Child, Madonna, Muse
by RUBIN, Sam and Richard Taylor
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 163pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner's name penned on front pastedown, spine cocked, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
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NZ$33.99
The Cinema of John Huston
by PRATLEY, Gerald
South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. 223pp. Very good with small scratch on rear board in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on the edges.
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NZ$33.99
The Day of the Locust
by WEST, Nathanael
New York: Random House, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked and the paper spine label is a trifle darkened from binder's glue, both flaws which seem endemic to the book, else near fine in a bright, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the top of the front panel, and at the crown, but which has been spared the professional restoration that most copies we have seen lately seem to have undergone. The timeless and quintessential Hollywood novel in which West explores...
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NZ$8,497.00
Noel & Cole The Sophisticates
by CITRON, Stephen
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to director and writier Garson Kanin and his second wife, actress Marian Seldes: "for Garson Kanin & Marian Seldes -although we've never met you both feel like old friends from Anne's reports - With much admiration and all good wishes, Stephen Citron. August 9, 1995.
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NZ$144.45
Judy: The Films and Career of Judy Garland
by MORELLA, Joe and Edward Z. Epstein
New York: The Citadel Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Introduction by Judith Crist. Slightly bumped corners with some toning on the board edges else near fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears and creasing. Signed by the authors.
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NZ$101.96
Seven Stages
by TREASE, Geoffrey
New York: Vanguard Press, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with a sticker shadow on the bottom of the spine (not an ex-library), water tideline at the top rear corner and down the rear flap fold.
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NZ$50.98
Down the Yellow Brick Road: The Making of The Wizard of Oz
by McCLELLAND, Doug
New York: Pyramid Books, 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto wrappers. Extremities lightly worn, else near fine.
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NZ$33.99
[Playbill]: Kiss Me Kate (Martin Beck Theatre)
New York: Playbill Incorporated, 2001. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Near fine in wrappers.
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NZ$33.99
A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noel Coward
by MORLEY, Sheridan
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Reprint edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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NZ$33.99
Marlene Dietrich: Photographs and Memories: From the Marlene Dietrich Collection of the Films Museum Berlin
by RIVA, Maria with Werner Sudendorf, captions by
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Unbound. Fine/Fine. Uncorrected proof. Square quarto. Compiled by Jean-Jacques Naudet. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Fine disbound with fine dustwrapper.
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NZ$101.96
Break for Fiction: Short Stories Broadcast by the B.B.C.
by BROWN, Hilton, edited by
London: Vallancy Press Limited, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. A gift inscription on the front fly, else fine in a slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks. Includes stories by Frank O'Connor and L.A.G. Strong.
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NZ$127.46
MIS INMORTALES DEL CINE; HOLLYWOOD, ANOS CUARENTA
by MOIX, TERENCI
Barcelona: EDITORIAL PLANETA, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus in wrappers with sligt soiling and rubbing to the back wrapper. Text in Spanish.
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NZ$67.98
Testament de Jérôme Sharp, professeur de physique amusante: où l'on trouve parmi plusieurs tours de subtilité, qu'on peut exécuter sans aucune dépense, des préceptes & des exemples sur l'art de faire des chansons impromptu: pour servir de complément a La magie blanche dévoilée
by DECREMPS, H(enri)
Paris: Chez l'auteur; Granger;Bailly; Lagrange;Lesclapart .., 1786. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Octavo. 328, [1]pp. Woodcuts and relief cuts of musical notation. Contemporary papercovered boards with leather spine label. Label chipped, some erosion to the boards, else a pleasing, about very good copy. Exposé of one of the first great conjurors, which did nothing to diminish his popularity. Scarce in boards.
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NZ$5,098.20
Bette Davis Speaks
by HADLEIGH, Boze
New York: Barricade Books, 1996. Softcover. Fine. First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine.
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NZ$33.99
List of First Class Passengers. Royal and U.S. Mail S.S. "Majestic," from Southampton to New York via Cherbourg; Wednesday, 2nd September, 1925
[No place]: White Star Line, 1925. Softcover. Near Fine. Small octavo. 21cm. [44]pp. Stapled embossed and decorated wrappers. A little foxing, near fine. Aside from the usual list of plutocrats and potentates are two well-known performers, actress and writer Madame Olga Petrova and the young dancer Agnes de Mille.
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NZ$254.91
The House of Barrymore
by PETERS, Margot
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book club edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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NZ$33.99
The Television Book of Favorite Nursery Rhymes
Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's House, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Thin octavo. Illustrated by Valeria Patterson. Pictorial boards with die-cut window, backed with glassine screen. Slight rubbing at the corners, near fine. Wheel turns revealing images from the nursery rhymes on the simulated "television screen" on the front board, presumably presaging the fall of western civilation. A very nice copy.
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NZ$84.97
The German Cinema
by MANVELL, Roger and Heinrich FRAENKEL
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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NZ$42.48
Films in Review: February 1975, Volume 26, Number 2
New York: National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc, 1975. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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NZ$33.99
Hanging On In Paradise
by GUILES, Fred Lawrence
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dustwrapper with a tear at the bottom edge of the front panel, scuffing.
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NZ$42.48
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by BARNUM, P. T
Bridgeport, CT, 30 January 1877. Letter. Scattered toning and soiling, small tear to top, a couple partial fold separations. Very Good. A two-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet with a blue ink stamp of Barnum addressed to an unknown recipient regarding employment and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." In part: "You are declining the American tour
. My respected father-in-law is I fear rather too timid. My son-in-law
filled the position of traveling Treasurer 4 or 5 years without...
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NZ$3,186.38
Music In The Air: Alvin Theatre Program
New York: New York Theatre Program Corporation, 1933. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in pictorial wrappers.
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NZ$84.97
[Screenplay]: Dr. Kildare: "The Pack Rat and The Prima Donna
by GUNN, James
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. / Arena Productions Inc, 1963. Softcover. Very Good. Screenplay, dated "April 12, 1963." Quarto. 69pp. Bradbound mimeographed sheets with blue printed wrappers and "76" stamped at the upper right corner. Near fine with some rubbing. An original screenplay for episode 10 of the third season of *Dr. Kildare* starring Richard Chamberlain as the title character.
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NZ$127.46
Demille The Man and His Pictures
by LEE, Raymond and Gabe Essoe
London: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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NZ$33.99
Television The First Fifty Years
by GREENFIELD, Jeff
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good with light tanning to the spine and along the top of the boards, in a very good dustwrapper with a lightly tanned spine.
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NZ$110.46