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I Lost My Girlish Laughter

By: Allen, Jane (pseud.)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1938

Seller ID: 14431

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice copy, spine a little turned, extremely light dampstaining on top edge (with occasional very slight bleeding onto top edges of some pages); paste-on illustrated label on front cover slightly rubbed/yellowed but still attractive, paste-on spine label faded and nearly unreadable]. A classic of Hollywood quasi-fiction, written pseudonymously by Jane Shore and Silvia Schulman; the latter had been personal secretary to famed producer David O. Selznick, but had left his employment to marry screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. (they were later divorced). Selznick, according to bibli...
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Palace of Light

By: Atlas, Jacoba

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1989

Seller ID: 664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, one bent page corner; jacket a little rubbed but no tears or chips]. A love story set against the backdrop of labor unrest and the early days of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. [Although this goes unmentioned in the jacket copy, the author did her college dissertation on the history of Hollywood labor unions, and is also the daughter of screenwriter Leopold Atlas, whose notable credits included THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (for which he received an Oscar nomination), and who was blacklisted for his political affiliations until he bowed to pressure from HUAC and became a...
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The Lovomaniacs

By: Barrett, Rona

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Nash Publishing: 1972

Seller ID: 890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid clean book, light age-toning to page edges, minor shelfwear; jacket has various tiny nicks along top edge, 1/4" triangular chip at base of spine, spine slightly color-shifted]. The only novel by "Miss Rona," at the time one of Hollywood's best-known columnists/commentators. Film historian/ bibliographer Anthony Slide writes in his bibliography, "The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works": "In view of the author's background, one would be tempted to dismiss the book as a typical trashy Hollywood novel. One would be very, very wrong. The Lovomaniac...
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The Bette Davis Murder Case

By: Baxt, George

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1994

Seller ID: 17612

ISBN: 0-312-10939-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, tight and clean, no discernible wear; jacket has a tiny tear and slight scrunching at top of spine, otherwise in almost perfect condition]. In another of his movie-star-starring period murder mysteries, Baxt puts Bette Davis in London, renting the museum-like mansion of a famous archaeologist "for a few months of relaxation while her Hollywood lawyers renegotiate her contract, but instead of peace and quiet, she gets embroiled in murder." And how does this sort of thing happen, you wonder? It's because her next-door neighbor happens to be Agatha Christie, of course....
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The Greta Garbo Murder Case [SIGNED]

By: Baxt, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1992

Seller ID: 20600

ISBN: 0-312-06988-X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear, small light pink smudge on half-title page; jacket shows light wear at extremities, small tear and slight associated creasing at top rear foldover, tiny scuffed spot near top center of front panel]. SIGNED by the author (signature only) on the title page. Another in Baxt's long-running series of period murder mysteries centered around famous movie people in an ingeniously-imagined alternative Hollywood -- in this instance, Greta Garbo (instead of terminating her screen career after the embarrassment of TWO-FACED WOMAN, as she did in real life) accepts the lead in a modern-da...
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The New Confessions [SIGNED]

By: Boyd, William

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 15281

ISBN: 0-688-07761-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderately shelfworn, slight split to board at bottom front corner, hinges a tad bit sprung (although binding is completely solid), very faint soiling to page edges; jacket rubbed and a bit wrinkled]. INSCRIBED ("To ____ / all my best wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The epic story of "one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century," Scottish-born filmmaker John James Todd. Signed by Author
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What the Movies Made Me Do [SIGNED]

By: Braudy, Susan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 3237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[remainder mark bottom edge, some wear to edges/corners of book; jacket has traces of wear along top edge, very slight fading to spine]. SIGNED on the ffep by the author, with a generic, non-personalized inscription ("Enjoy the book! I hope you laugh!"). Signed by Author
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The Shoestring Symphony

By: Broekman, David

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1948

Seller ID: 16096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [solid clean copy, bumped at bottom corners but no other significant wear, attractive (if generic) bookplate with previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, a few small tears, shallow chipping at spine ends, tiny piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, considerable fading to spine (where the title is almost unreadable)]. Interesting Hollywood not-quite-novel (although the front panel of the jacket calls it "a novel," I have in the past seen a contemporary disclaimer issued by the publisher, averring that it was in fact...
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Keep It Real [SIGNED]

By: Bryan, Bill

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madison WI, Bleak House Books: (c.2007)

Seller ID: 16121

ISBN: 1932557377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear; jacket shows faint surface handling wear, short diagonal crease in rear flap]. SIGNED and DATED by the author on the title page. Satirical novel about an investigative reporter-turned-reality-show producer who uses the show to investigate the disappearance of a gangsta rapper's girlfriend. The author's debut novel. Signed by Author
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The Face on the Cutting Room Floor [SIGNED]

By: Cutler, Stan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1991

Seller ID: 18073

ISBN: 0-525-93381-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernable wear to book itself; jacket shows a trace of surface rubbing, very minor wear along bottom edge of front panel]. INSCRIBED to veteran TV writer Mel Tolkin, and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. The second adventure of private-eyes-to-the-stars Rayford Goodman and Mark Bradley, who narrate this tale of a Tinseltown murder in alternating chapters. Signed by Author
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Children of Hollywood

By: Demarest, Phyllis Gordon

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: 1929

Seller ID: 21136

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities, age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's small address label at top corner of front pastedown, faint staining to front cover, two-inch tear in bottom of pages 147/148]. Romance that takes place in and around Hollywood rather than a "Hollywood novel" per se -- but although bibliographer Anthony Slide more or less dismisses it as having "little film-related material," there's still a certain amount of local-color interest, as the characters move about Southern California -- going to the races and the casinos in Tia Juana...
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The Kingmaker

By: Denker, Henry

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, David McKay Company: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 22922

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

[heavy foxing to top edge, somewhat less on fore-edge, some soiling to book's covers, boards slightly warped, light musty smell; the jacket, however, has been affected by none of this, and is nearly flawless, with just a touch of soiling to the rear panel]. One of the more outrageous romans-a-clef in the annals of Hollywood fiction, a thinly fictionalized telling of the rise of MCA founder Jules Stein -- here "Dr. Irwin Cone" (nee 'Isidore Cohen"), who builds his "Talent Corporation of America" into a powerful media giant, and who eventually moves to protect his empire fro...
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Flashback

By: Dooley, Roger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co. /Crime Club: 1969

Seller ID: 2605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate wear at extremities, spine turned; jacket shows some wear corners, small tears with minor paper loss at top of spine, a little wrinkling at base of spine]. Mystery novel concerning a staff writer for a film magazine who gets involved in a murder case while investigating an old-time Hollywood scandal.
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The 21" Screen

By: Fadiman, Edwin Jr.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1958

Seller ID: 2506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[small star stamped on ffep, else a flawless copy; DJ soiled, chipped/dog-eared at spine extremities, spine a bit discolored]. Novel about a big-time TV star, the enormously popular host of a daytime network talk/variety show, who had once been an ambitious young writer. Flashback chapters show how he went wrong.
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Shivering in the Sun

By: Fadiman, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Wilshire House: (c.1988)

Seller ID: 14229

ISBN: 1-55713-043-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, with just a slight bump to the bottom rear corner; faint wear to jacket at a couple of corners]. "...a moral fable set in a slyly portrayed amoral world, peopled with the archetypes beloved in Hollywood. This wicket romp through the machinations of ambition is set in a skewed Los Angeles circa 1963. Judd Haber, the agent's agent, a far-from-perfect Everyman, is estranged from his past (his name used to be Jacob Haber), from his wife and his family. His adopted son is a porn star, his daughter is seeing a man he's never met, and his wife is drifting into a tepid affair with he...
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Come Back Dead; a Scott Elliott Mystery

By: Faherty, Terence

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 3190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[covers bowed slightly outward, top front corner bumped]. A mystery novel set in 1950's Hollywood, in which "Carson Drury" (read Orson Welles) attempts to buy back the rights to his failed second film, " The Imperial Albertsons," in order to re-shoot the original ending and restore his tarnished reputation.
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The Big Dream [SIGNED]

By: Fisher, Steve

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 10124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[good tight copy, internally clean but with some irregular faded spots on front cover as a result of once-dampened dust jacket; jacket is mildly edgeworn, water-stained at upper spine and upper left-hand corner of front panel (although because of the jacket design it's relatively unobtrusive), plus there's a triangular chip at the top front hinge (affecting both the front panel and top of spine)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. This hard-boiled veteran writer returns yet again to the Hollywood Novel, a genre he mined repeatedly (often striking a rich vein of cliche) througho...
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The Distant Laughter [SIGNED]

By: Forbes, Bryan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 22589

ISBN: 0-06-011308-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

INSCRIBED "To Gordon / with much affection always / & happy memories of / the prison compound at / Gower Street!" and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additional dated "Sept. 1973." Novel by the noted actor-turned-film director/producer/writer, about "a marriage and a love affair carried on in the midst of the glamour, cynicism, and sordidness of the international movie world" (a scene the author knew all too well). According to Hollywood fiction bibliographer Anthony Slide, Forbes had begun writing the novel twenty years before its publication. He goes to some pain...
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Equal to Princes: A Hollywood Novel

By: Gregory, Mary Lawrence

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1986

Seller ID: 5930

ISBN: 0-385-19802-7

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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My Fellow Devils

By: Hartley, L.P.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, British Book Centre: 1959

Seller ID: 8267

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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Category: Fiction: Hollywood