Search Results: Authors starting with W from MONROE STAHR BOOKS

Reprint edition in dust jacket about fine in a nice looking dust jacket that has a few short tears and rubbed areas and is missing one inch at the top of the spine, which includes most of the title. A romance. A young woman starts out in the film business on the East Coast, fights off the casting couch, and moves to the West Coast where she finds success. Wagner was Charlie Chaplin's publicity man and confidant.

Reprint edition, about fine, in a nice looking dust jacket that has a few short tears and rubbed areas and is missing one inch at the top of the spine, which includes most of the title. A romance. A young woman starts out in the film business on the East Coast, fights off the casting couch, and moves to the West Coast where she finds success. Wagner was Charlie Chaplin's publicity man and confidant.

Harcourt, Brace & World,, 1968. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is fine. The unclipped dust jacket has some minute rubbing.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication. The book has a name on both pastedowns, otherwise fine. The dust jacket is fine. A Hollywood screenwriter, between jobs, attempts to consummate an affair, but is physically unable to. It is suggested that the plot represents the artistic vitality being destroyed by the commercialism of Hollywood.

First paperback edition in decorated wraps. Book missing top inch of FFEP; some rubbing; ding on front cover were a sticker was rudely removed - very good.

FIRST EDITION in blue linen boards - no dust jacket as issued. AS NEW. With Commentaries & A Personal Memoir by Julian Symons & A Preface by H.R.F. Keating.

FIRST EDITION (US) in dust jacket. The book and unclipped dust jacket are AS NEW.

Later printing in dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are fine. Neat name and date on FFEP. This novel features a Forest Lawn-like cemetery as a proxy for the excesses of Hollywood. One of the classic Hollywood novels. Illustrated by Stuart Boyle.

ADVANCE READING COPY/UNCORRECTED PROOF, from typescript, in decorated paperback wraps. Small crease on rear cover - otherwise AS NEW. Minnesota setting; Native American story.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. Both the book and the unclipped dust jacket are AS NEW.

UNCORRECTED PROOF in decorated paperback wraps. AS NEW.

FIRST paperback edition. The book has a crease on the front cover; non-authorial inscriptions of the half-title page. Bump at the head of the dust jacket spine. Otherwise FINE.

FIRST paperback edition. The book has a crease on the front cover; non-authorial inscriptions of the half-title page. Bump at the head of the dust jacket spine. Otherwise FINE.

FIRST EDITION (UK) in dust jacket. The book is fine, SIGNED by Irwin Kremen, an American artist on the FFEP. The dust jacket has a short tear at the foot of the front panel and has mild darkening to the spine. Although the American edition would be the first, I find this dust jacket more interesting. I was shown the following association inscription in another copy of this book: 'I was with 'Pop' West, as we called him, when this book arrived from Random House with a red jacket he detested. Nothing ever seemed to go right for Pop, until his post-mortem renaissance./But we believed in him then./Budd Schulberg'

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Small red dot on the bottom of the book block; price intact on the front dust jacket flap.

ADVANCE READING COPY/UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket (US). The book and dust jacket, with French flaps, are fine.

FIRST EDITION (American) in dust jacket; SIGNED & DATED by the author on FFEP. The book is fine in a dust jacket that is lightly rubbed at the corners and the spine ends. The name of the person to whom the book was inscribed has been rudely erased. The name of the person to whom the book was inscribed has been rudely erased.

FIRST EDITION in paperback. A paperback original. Small areas of rubbing - otherwise fine.

Fine. New and unread.