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Whistle for Me

By: Jackson, Michael

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1933

Seller ID: 17539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[a little discoloration to cloth at joints, light staining to gutters and both pastedowns, slight bumping to several corners; jacket is edgeworn and lightly soiled, with various small tears (including 1-1/2" split at bottom front hinge), a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine (no loss of text)] The author's first (and only) novel, about a quartet of young people, two of whom are ambitious musical performers: Paul, a talented and popular pianist with a dance orchestra (who dreams of composing a great tone poem), and Joanna, a nightclub singer with a young brother to support (whose intens...
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The Last Believers

By: Karp, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1965 (c.1964)

Seller ID: 20076

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, slight bumping to top corners; jacket shows just a bit of wrinkling around base of spine and at top edge of rear panel]. Novel about a successful playwright who attempts to prevent his son from renouncing his citizenship by relating the story of his own life: "his youth in the 'thirties; his rebellion against his unschooled father; his discovery of the Communist Party and the Party's manipulation of him; and his eventual painful awakening and its aftermath." Spanning the Great Depression to the present day, the story "is highlighted with Communist intrigues...
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My Lucky Star [SIGNED]

By: Keenan, Joe

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2006

Seller ID: 16130

ISBN: 0-316-06019-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very slight bumping to bottom corners, otherwise a clean tight copy, appears unread; jacket shows just a teensy bit of handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "P.G. Wodehouse meets Preston Sturges" [it sez here] in this "laser-sharp Hollywood comedy," by this Emmy-winning writer-producer (his third "Philip and Gilbert" book, narrated by the former, a writer). Frankly, it really just makes me wonder if Wodehouse ever did meet Sturges? It coulda happened, quite easily. Signed by Author
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That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent

By: Kober, Arthur

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1946)

Seller ID: 3267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Poor dj

(price-clipped) [moderate wear to book, top corners bumped; jacket is missing large pieces at several corners, and about 1/4 of the top of the rear panel (front panel illustration is mostly unaffected)]. 18 humorous stories of Hollywood agent "Benny Greenspan," most of which had originally appeared in The New Yorker, and an introduction which discusses the place of the agent in the movie business, with particular reference to screenwriters. (The author had done a stint in Hollywood himself, and of course was also the one-time husband of Lillian Hellman.) Each story includes its own bri...
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Marquee Ballyhoo: An American Novel

By: Kusell, Maurice L., and M.S. Merritt

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles-San Francisco, Arthur H. Chamberlain: 1932

Seller ID: 1769

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

(no dust jacket) [dent at bottom of front cover, moderate edgewear, minor water-spotting at spine top and bottom rear, spine turned, a little dusty on top; inside clean, pages white].
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The Slide Area: Scenes of Hollywood Life

By: Lambert, Gavin

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1959

Seller ID: 15169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dj

[nice solid book, minimal shelfwear, very faint dampstain at top left-hand corner of front cover, small bookseller's label at bottom of rear pastedown (Brown Book Shop, Houston TX); jacket has matching dampstain (internal) at upper left of front panel, moderate wrinkling along top edge (front and rear panels), triangular chip at top of spine (taking away part of first T in book's title)]. Not quite a novel -- really six individual stories, "interlinking" per the dust jacket (but not terribly so) -- and not entirely about Hollywood per se, although it's certainly a highspot in the Holl...
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Casablack

By: Leopold, Christopher

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1979

Seller ID: 7698

ISBN: 0-385-14388-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight copy, remainder spray bottom edge, minor spotting on top edge; jacket has a couple of small edge-tears, moderate soiling to rear panel, small chip at top of rear panel, some soiling at top of rear jacket flap]. An "outrageous, gritty sequel" to the beloved film CASABLANCA, the book is also (it sez here) "a brilliant parody and a top-notch World War II thriller in its own right." In this alternate meta-fictional universe -- "The Real Story of What the Movie Couldn't Show" -- Rick (oops, Steve) looks more like John Garfield than Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa is a lady...
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If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now [SIGNED]

By: Loh, Sandra Tsing

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Riverhead Books: 1997

Seller ID: 8973

ISBN: 1-57322-068-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, NO remainder mark, mild shelfwear; jacket is nearly flawless, with just a tiny bit of surface rubbing]. SIGNED boldly by the author on the title page. Comic novel about a pair of hapless twentysomethings who cherish their dreams of Hollywood success, despite being "stranded in a dreary tract house with chain-link fencing, so far from the actual city of Los Angeles that they may as well be on Mars." The author's third book (and first novel), following an autobiographical monologue ("Aliens in America") and an essay collection ("Depth Takes a Holiday"...
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The Beggars are Coming

By: Loos, Mary

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books (X8540): 1974

Seller ID: 12577

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[decent clean copy, spine creased, a little spine roll, mild edgewear]. Mass Market PB A paperback original, a novel of Hollywood's "golden age," spanning the years 1913-1947. The author was the niece of famed pioneer screenwriter/novelist Anita Loos, and was herself a screenwriter (at one time married to novelist/screenwriter/director Richard Sale).
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Studio

By: Maremaa, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1978

Seller ID: 14061

ISBN: 0-688-03300-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, apparently unread, fading to boards at top/bottom edges, light browning to top page edges, no significant shelfwear; jacket has minor wear along top edge, light paper-clip indentation at top of front panel]. Hollywood meta-fiction, you might say: "A major Hollywood studio decides to make a movie about itself. The studio is a city unto itself and will be its own movie set. It has its tyrants and courtiers, fools and pretenders, its glamour and debauchery, waste and extravagance, its struggles for power." (And yet the jacket copy denies "any resemblance to a typ...
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Rough Cut

By: McCullough, Andrew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1976

Seller ID: 13427

ISBN: 0-688-03066-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[good tight copy, tiny dents at top and bottom of rear cover, minor smudging to bottom edge, minor diagonal crease at bottom corner of one page, previous owner's address label on ffep; jacket shows light surface wear, minor wrinkling and one tiny tear at top of rear panel, wrinkling at top of rear flap]. "This novel rips the lid off modern Hollywood in presenting the day-to-day drama of the making of a television series. It is a story that no one has told before [oh, please...] about the secrets of success and failure of the men and women who sell their souls daily to get a show in the t...
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Cast of Characters

By: Morgan, Al

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1957

Seller ID: 7352

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

Very Good+ in Very Good dj [good solid copy, minor soiling at edges of endpapers, top edge browned; jacket mildly edgeworn, soiling to rear panel and edges of jacket flaps]. Hollywood novel which takes place during a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater (depicted on front panel of jacket), with alternate chapters telling the stories of various individuals in attendance.
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Tom Mix Died for Your Sins; a novel based on his life

By: Ponicsan, Darryl

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: (c.1975)

Seller ID: 2619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[spine a bit turned, shelfwear to bottom of book, a few small dents in bottom edges of boards; DJ wrinkled across top edge]. (B&W photographs) "A brilliantly color evocation of the life and times of Tom Mix, as based on fact but told in fiction," narrated by Mix's fictional buddy Kit Bandera. Rather unsually for a work in this vein, it's illustrated with photos of the actual Tom Mix.
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Flicker [Advance uncorrected proofs]

By: Roszak, Theodore

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Summit Books: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 14318

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[in printed illustrated wraps, with minor soiling to the bottom edge]. Advance copy of Roszak's tale of an Sixties/Seventies-era L.A. film buff who develops "a lifelong obsession with the mysterious Max Castle, a nearly forgotten genius of the silent screen who later became the greatest film noir director -- only to vanish in the 1940s, at the height of his powers." His quest for the truth behind Castle's mysterious disappearance takes him "from Hollywood's Poverty Row into the shadowy lore of ancient religious heresies. He encounters a cast of exotic characters, including Orson W...
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The Rat Factory

By: Ryan, J.M.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: (c.1971)

Seller ID: 14009

ISBN: 013753079X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid copy, light soiling/spotting to page edges; jacket worn and soiled, with various tears and general scrunching at spine extremities, ragged tear (internally tape-repaired) at upper corner of rear panel, spine scuffed and moderately faded]. A wonderfully savage satire of Walt Disney, here fictionally rendered as rampaging egomaniac Wade Ezekial Sampson, "creator of Ricky Rat, Dizzy Duck, Dirty Dog, Halfwit Hog, and a host of America's other favorite little cartoon animals." The action takes place during the 1930's, as the protagonist -- an ambitious young inbetweener named Ambros...
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The Broadbelters [on cover: The Broad-Belters]

By: Schnall, Maxine

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, M. Evans and Company / J.B. Lippincott: (c.1970)

Seller ID: 17015

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[spine slightly turned, light shelfwear; jacket is bright and attractive despite some laminate-puckering on the front panel and scuffing/rubbing to rear panel; it is, however, about 1/8" shorter than the book itself, for some reason]. "Can an ex-Hollywood starlet find happiness writing a dirty book?" asks the cover blurb. It's "the story of what happened when Bonnie Erlich signed a contract with Dave Shmeer, publisher of bestsellers, and made use of his formula C = 2BS+N (Chapter = 2 Bedroom Scenes + Narrative)." This was the author's second book, and apparently her only ...
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What Makes Sammy Run?

By: Schulberg, Budd

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 20028

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(blue cloth; no dust jacket) [solid book, moderate wear, an excellent reading copy]. Schulberg's classic tale of a Hollywood heel. [This is likely a book club printing, with a Random House imprint, but with "CL" on the copyright page. Be aware that anybody attempting to pass off a "CL" printing as a first edition is seriously misinformed.]
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The Velvet Knife [SIGNED]

By: Shulman, Irving

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1959

Seller ID: 12580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid copy, light shelfwear, mild browning to page edges, previous owner's possession stamp on front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, minor paper loss at top of spine (no text affected)]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the ffep. The novelist-and-sometime-screenwriter's only Hollywood novel -- although some think his 1960s biographies of Jean Harlow and Rudolph Valentino have their share of fictional content -- "built around the fascinating, complex character of an evil genius," and informed by the novelist-screenwriter's "intimate knowledge of how producers, directors, writ...
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Three Short Biers

By: Starr, Jimmy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hollywood, Murray & Gee, Inc.: 1945

Seller ID: 14131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [nice clean copy, very light wear at extremities]. Second (and last) Hollywood-set mystery novel by this author featuring the "Martini-gargling, cutie-chasing, fast-talking reporter and super-sleuth" Joe Medford, introduced in "The Corpse Came C.O.D." In this story, he investigates the homicides of a trio of midgets. Starr (1904-1990) was a noted Hollywood gossip columnist and radio commentator.
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The Star of Hollywood

By: Stilgebauer, Edward (translated from the German by E.E. Wilson)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland/New York, International Fiction Library: (c.1929, 1927)

Seller ID: 8011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [minor soiling to red cloth, a few tiny tears in cloth at spine ends, but generally in better shape than this cheaply-produced volume is usually found]. "This story tells of a young film actress at Hollywood, who, in taking the part of the slave attendant on Cleopatra, has to apply the poisonous snake to the breast of a famous star. In doing so, she pierces her with a syringe containing a deadly dose of morphia. Breathless incidents follow...." First published in 1927. I personally have always cherished this book for the hysterical (and geographically-challenged) o...
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Category: Fiction: Hollywood