First Edition stated. Koerner dustjacket art. Rare Hollywood themed novel found in Slide's Hollywood Novel. "Jim Shade, ex-farmer boy and acrobat, who achieves stardom on the film lots at the age of twenty-two, gets bored with the bright lights, comes up missing at the premiere of his new picture, disappears. But the excitement has only just begun for Shade, who meets Eve Mannix, daughter of Professor Mannix, a physicist of the first order who deals in super stellar waves. Jim suddenly finds himself the center of a nefarious plot, littered with spies, foreign agents, kidnappings, robbery, violence and thrills. A gargantuan chase by the film company for the recovery of their high priced star". Almost Near Fine, bit of wear at top spine end, gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, nicked and rubbed at spine ends, some soiling to spine. Item #27619

First Edition. "Mystery staged against the glamorous and feverish background of the film colony. Johnny, Assistant Manager of Cosmic Films, job included applying banana oil to the over heated cylinders of temperamental stars". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, couple of small chips at edges. Item #28479

First American Edition. Novel of the inhabitants of a great modern Hotel whom include a newspaper magnate, a financier and his Communistic son, the general, the priest, socialite, Ninette de Nina the movie star, a scientist, spiritualist medium and Arab chieftain. Near Fine in edge chipped dustjacket, about an inch of loss at lower spine area, closed tears at spine area, some fading to spine. Item #21707

Second Printing statement at copyright page. W. H. D. Koerner dustjacket art. "An American film company heads to Egypt to produce a feature based on the last line in the William Henley poems, "When I Was a King in Babylon, and You Were A Virgin Slave." Warren Creel, motion picture director, takes his staff of actresses, actors and cameramen. An Egyptologist from MoMA is a member of the crew, using the expedition as an excuse to return to his excavation. The leading man suffers from sunstroke and believes he and his costar are reincarnations of those buried 4000 years earlier in the tomb." Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling to panels. Item #32850

First Edition. Hollywood novel of two women who are both in love with "America's most famous movie star" who unbeknownst to most is deaf. Found in Anthony Slide's The Hollywood Novel. Very Good plus with inscription to inside front cover in Very Good dustjacket with spine text faded, light chipping to top spine end, shallow chipping and wear along lower front spine edge, and general shelf wear. Item #14348

First American Edition. Hubin listed murder mystery involving a Hollywood actress 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 morphine..." Near Fine, contemporary address at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends, small chip at mid-front spine edge. Item #25860

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original illustrated wrappers. Humorous novel of Hollywood and the movie business. Found in Anthony Slide's Hollywood Novel. Basis for the 1936 RKO film starring Fred Stone and Jean Parker. Very Good - Near Fine, small chip at lower front panel mended with archival tape at verso. Item #11507

First Edition. John Held Jr. dustjacket art. 12mo. Pocket-sized and short work on the value of having a good big brother. This copy inscribed by Sullivan in year of publication to Hollywood writer and movie producer Mark Hellinger, at front free endpaper. Very Good, top spine end bumped, in Very Good dustjacket, centimeter sized chip at top spine end. Item #16214

First Edition. Hollywood themed mystery novel found in Anthony Slide's The Hollywood Novel, in which detective Peter Clancy investigates a murder on a motion picture lot. A contemporary review of the book read, "the lives of horse-opera actors get thorough and colorful ventilating in picturesque and slightly tiresome tale, with interesting and cinematic climax". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, spine color just slightly faded, nicking and rubbing to spine ends, few short closed tears to edges. Item #14579

First Edition. 'The story of how Karl Lustig erected the great structure of Premiere Films and then lost it, only to recapture it again, is a story packed with drama and emotion'. Found in Anthony Slide's 'Hollywood Novel'. Uncommon. Very Good, some spotting to cloth, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, tiny typed call letters at spine, wear along all edges, small chips and a bit of stain at lower spine end. Item #39927

Presumed First Edition despite no publisher's colophon. Original red cloth and illustrated dustjacket. 'H' dustjacket art. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Very scarce Hollywood themed novel, "its title character a Western actor who has lived many of the parts he plays, 'a moving-picture cowpuncher, acting during every waking moment.' All the stories take place at the Titan studios (possibly based on the Selig studios in Los Angeles) and feature director Jimmy Montague". [Anthony Slide, 'The Hollywood Novel'] Stories include titles about extras, a conceited stage actor, a young actress forced to perform in a water scene after pretending she can swim proficiently, an actor who loses interest in the leading lady, author's who supervise production, a wealthy woman intent on an acting career, and a film set visited by an efficiency expert. Slide erroneously dates this title as published in 1919. Had he known the correct date of 1915, this title would fall within the same year as Edward Clode's novel, The Love Story of a Movie Star, which he describes as the first Hollywood novel for adults. As Clode's novel is set in New York before the movie industry moved west to Hollywood, this may be the first novel to deal with movie making in the town synonymous with its production. Near Fine but for mild bumping to fore-edge of first several leaves, in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, spine edges with wear, few closed tears. Item #22843