Show Business
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Small Sounds In The Night
by SEVAREID, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 305pp. Jacket photograph by Robert Phillips. Jacket design by H. Lawrence Hoffman. Edges worn, near fine in a very good edgeworn dustwrapper. A collection of radio broadcasts during the Eisenhower era.
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SGD 41.38
Masks Mimes and Miracles: Studies in the Popular Theatre
by NICOLL, Allardyce
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 407, [1]pp. Blue cloth titled in gilt. Offsetting and fading on the boards, else a tight and sound very good copy without dustwrapper. Bookplate of actress Ruth Gordon and her husband the writer and director Garson Kanin. Gift inscription to Kanin from Harry and Ursula Brown.
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SGD 206.89
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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SGD 68.96
Mad in Pursuit
by WESTERBY, Robert
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine, with slight sunning to the spine, in a near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some chipping to the spine and flap folds. A novel that combines five stories into one main narrative. Westerby has written extensively for both TV and film, including the adaptation of 1956's "War and Peace", starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda.
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SGD 110.34
Colonnade 1972
by (STERN, Howard)
Rockville Centre, NY: South Side Senior High School, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. First and only edition. Quarto. 167pp. + ads. Decorated cloth. A trifle soiled, very near fine copy. Radio personality Howard Stern's Senior Class Year Book. Stern appears in jacket and tie in his Senior picture on page 45. There are many candid and club pictures, but we have foregone the pleasure of the hunt for Stern, and left it to the eventual purchaser to experience the possible wonderment of discovery.
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SGD 896.54
David Merrick: The Abominable Showman
by KISSEL, Howard
New York: Applause, 1993. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Laminated wrappers. Fine. The unauthorized biography.
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SGD 27.59
Sixty Years of Hollywood
by BAXTER, John
South Brunswick / New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Near fine with small dampstain to the tail of the spine with very good plus dustwrapper with dampstain to the spine and wear to the ends, rubbing and toning.
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SGD 27.59
![[Vinyl Record]: Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Story, Music And Photos From The Original](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/547/695/629695547.0.b.0.jpg)
[Vinyl Record]: Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Story, Music And Photos From The Original
California: Lucasfilm, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Wrappers. 24pp. Near fine with slight edgewear. Additionally included is a 7" 33 1/3 RPM record with music from the motion picture.
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SGD 55.17
Program for "The Foreign Language" Starring Edna Best, John Hoyt
Westport, Connecticut: Westport Country Playhouse, 1951. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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SGD 34.48
My Life
by REYNOLDS, Burt
New York: Hyperion, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. 330pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Short tear and crease on page 285, boards slightly flared, very good to near fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.
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SGD 34.48
Over 50: So What!
by HILDEGARDE with Adele Whitely Fletcher
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 184pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Endpapers and page edges lightly foxed, red cloth modestly soiled. still near fine in a very good moderately soiled dustwrapper. Inscribed on compliments card and laid on front fly by Hildegarde. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. Not just an autobiography, but Hildegarde also offers her sage advice on health, grooming, poise and diet.
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SGD 172.41
Akademietheater
by WEDEKIND, Frank
Germany, 1981. Softcover. Near Fine. Near fine in wrappers. Text in German.
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SGD 27.59
Humphrey Bogart
by HUSTON, John
Los Angeles: The Seiler Press, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 12mo. [8]pp. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Bogart. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Text of Huston's eulogy of Bogart, delivered at the memorial services in Beverly Hills, January 17, 1957. Huston collaborated with Bogart on several notable films including the classics *The Maltese Falcon*, *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*, *Key Largo*, and *The African Queen*. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates one copy.
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SGD 1,724.12
Two Plays: Little Birds Fly / Return Upriver
by LEMAY, Harding
[No place]: (Xlibris Corp, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the playwright to actress Marian Seldes: "6.23.05 My sister in one play, my aunt in another, you became 'Family' and much more ever since. With abiding love, Harding." Brief note laid in from Lemay and his wife to Seldes.
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SGD 275.86
Filmwelt: Das Film Und Foto Magazin: Berlin, 29 November 1940, Nummer 48
Filmwelt, 1940. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto stapled wrappers. Near fine.
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SGD 27.59
Clark Gable: A Biography
by HARRIS, Warren
New York: Harmony Books, 2002. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers.
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SGD 34.48
Bardot Deneuve Fonda
by VADIM, Roger
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the French by Melinda Camber Porter. Black and white illustrations. Worn lower corners and toning else about near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with edgewear and tiny tears.
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SGD 48.28
Life Is Too Short
by ROONEY, Mickey
New York: Villard, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 374pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Spine ends and corners bumped, a very good copy in a very good dustwrapper with modest edgewear.
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SGD 27.59
Entrances: An American Director's Journey
by SCHNEIDER, Alan
(New York): Viking, 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. Advance Review copy of an unpublished proof with the slip laid in. Foreword by Edward Albee. Illustrated. Near fine in soiled, slightly sunned wrappers.
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SGD 27.59
Cast of Characters: Stories of Broadway and Hollywood
by KANIN, Garson
New York: Atheneum, 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Bumped corners else about fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.
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SGD 103.45
When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence
by BRUCK, Connie
New York: Random House, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with light bumping to the extremities.
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SGD 31.72
Hollywood and the American Image
by THOMAS, Tony
Westport: Arlington House, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good plus with a little sunning to the edges of the boards in very good dustwrapper with light soiling, small tears to the top edge and some tape repairs.
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SGD 27.59
Bette Davis: An Intimate Memoir
by MOSELEY, Roy
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. 192pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing to the top and fore edge, else near fine in faded very good dustwrapper.
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SGD 27.59
Natural Blonde: A Memoir
by SMITH, Liz
New York: Hyperion, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Spine ends bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper.
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SGD 27.59
13 Akter: AV Filmens Historie
by AAMOT, Per
Oslo: Ekko Forlag, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Norwegian edition, text in Norwegian. Near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper with Charles Chaplin on the cover. Inscribed by the author.
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SGD 110.34
