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Price: $15.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5930
ISBN: 0-385-19802-7
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[spine turned, but otherwise a nice clean copy with minimal wear; jacket has a couple of tiny tears at bottom corners]. A novel about the three Diamond brothers -- Sheldon, Mel, and David -- who came of age during Hollywood's Golden Era, and occupy positions of prestige and influence within the business, as an executive, a fast-living lawyer, and a passionately committed writer, respectively. The author (aka Mollie Gregory) is also a noted screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. View more info
By: Gross, Hugh
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, Mid-List Press: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4784
ISBN: 0922811210
Condition: Near Fine
[tight and bright, with just a touch of edgewear here and there; spine slightly color-shifted from green to blue]. Trade PB "A contemporary satire about making movies and making money, though not necessarily in that order." View more info
By: Hartley, L.P.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, British Book Centre: 1959
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 8267
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[solid copy, moderate wear at extremities, top edge a little darkened; jacket moderately edgeworn, some chipping and a little paper loss at top of spine]. "Hollywood" novel, of sorts (British sub-genre), about the turbulent marriage of a young woman, "a civic pillar in her small, suburban English community," to a famous movie star, known for his "bad man" image on-screen. And as if that weren't bad enough, she' s a Protestant and he's a Roman Catholic! Per the jacket copy, the author brings his "powerful narrative style and brilliant perception" to bear on ... View more info
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By: Hauck, Charlie
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1993)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 17791
ISBN: 0-688-12152-7
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj
[nice clean copy, a touch of shelfwear to bottom edge, spine very slightly turned; jacket is bright and attractive, with no significant wear]. INSCRIBED ("To ___ and ___, / a good book / for great / people.") and SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated 6/27/93 in his hand. Hauck's first novel, about two ambitious sitcom writers who achieve their dream of a successful network series, but then find themselves at the mercy of their stunning but volatile leading lady, former soap-opera actress Geneva Holloway -- described by one as "like Mengele, but without the hum... View more info
By: Heimer, Mel
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Trident Press: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14028
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid copy, spine very slightly turned, lower front corner faintly bumped; jacket is edgeworn, rubbed, tiny tears at a couple of corners]. "When Richard Fletcher and Wilhelmina Stevens went to Rome together to make a motion picture, newspaper readers on two continents, already titillated by rumors that they were having an affair, avidly followed their every move. Then Fletcher, the most highly regarded actor of his day, was mercilessly set upon in an alley by unknown assailants and left for dead." (Thugs hired by Eddie Fisher?) One of those "Hollywood novels" that mostly ta... View more info
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By: Hensley, Dennis
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Rob Weisbach Books/William Morrow and Company: (c.1998)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 13406
ISBN: 0-688-15452-2
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice tight clean copy, very light shelfwear, slighty bumped at top of spine, spine a little turned; jacket shows only light handling wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "What 'Tales of the City' did for San Francisco, [this novel] does double for Los Angeles in this tale of a struggling screenwriter, his circle of celebrity-seeking friends, and their madcap attempts to make it in the biz. Packed with Hollywood life lessons and more B-level celebs than you can shake a casting sheet at, [it] is a brilliantly witty romp through the L.A. entertainment machine. And ... View more info
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By: Hughes, Rupert
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: [1923] (c.1922)
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 20086
ISBN: NO
Condition: Fair
(no dust jacket) [reading/research copy ONLY, with heavy fading to edges of both covers, water-staining on endpapers; for all that, though, it's a solid copy (hinges and binding intact) with only moderate shelfwear, and internally clean]. (4 B&W film stills) An early Hollywood novel -- one of the first, in fact, by a writer who could legitimately be called a "major author" of his day, although his style has not aged well and he is little read today. The story concerns a small-town minister's daughter who rejects her father's religion, runs away from home, and through a combination of... View more info
By: Jackson, Michael
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17539
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... View more info
By: Karp, David
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1965 (c.1964)
Edition: 1st U.K. edition
Seller ID: 20076
ISBN: NO
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... View more info
By: Kaye, John
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: (c.1997)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20015
ISBN: 0-87113-691-0
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean book with no discernible wear and NO remainder mark; jacket shows just a trace of rubbing to the rear panel]. Modern-day Hollywood novel about "a network censor struggling to break into The Business as a screenwriter," who spends "entire days in his car, circling Los Angeles on an endless path." (Some of us call that "commuting.") Per the jacket blurb, the author's "vision of Hollywood does not convey the alluring promise of stardom, but the acrid disappointments of the damaged souls that inhabit L.A.'s underside." (Which makes it different from e... View more info
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By: Keenan, Joe
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York/Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16130
ISBN: 0-316-06019-4
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 View more info
By: Knight, Steven
Price: $6.50
Publisher: London/New York, Penguin Books: 1994
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 12956
ISBN: 0-14-023174-9
Condition: Very Good
[moderate edgewear, minor creasing at left edge of front cover, the word "pulp" stamped on bottom edge (looks like this one made a break for it!)]. Mass Market PB "A wildly original thriller from the Florida Badlands," this novel concerns a down-at-the-heels comedy scriptwriter who is "adopted" by a Hollywood producer, who whisks him off to Key West and ensconces him in the title structure "to hammer out the movie script that will change his life and make [the producer's] fortune." But something's rotten in the Keys, as the saying goes. View more info
By: Kober, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1946)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3267
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... View more info
By: Kusell, Maurice L., and M.S. Merritt
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Los Angeles-San Francisco, Arthur H. Chamberlain: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1769
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]. View more info
By: Lambert, Gavin
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1959
Edition: 1st (U.S.) edition
Seller ID: 15169
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... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7698
ISBN: 0-385-14388-5
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... View more info
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Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Riverhead Books: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8973
ISBN: 1-57322-068-X
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"... View more info
By: Loos, Mary
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books (X8540): 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12577
ISBN: NO
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). View more info
By: Maremaa, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14061
ISBN: 0-688-03300-8
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... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13427
ISBN: 0-688-03066-1
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... View more info
