Early Reprint Edition. Dustjacket artwork by Holmgren. Romance novel about a bitter film actor who falls in love with a young woman that he meets aboard a ship. Near Fine with bumping to lower spine end in Near Fine dustjacket with light edge wear to spine ends. Item #12415

First Edition. Charles Durant dustjacket art. Novel about a young woman who grows up to discover that her father killed a doctor. The author was a Hollywood director and producer, having worked his way up from Art Director to starting his own production company. He directed such films as Pagan Love and East Lynne. He also worked in the art department for the Wizard Of Oz. Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket, modest shelf wear, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, creases to rear panel. Item #18291

First Edition. Abbey dustjacket. "Shadrach Green is a self made film magnate. Jerry Burke is the bachelor darling of a million fans, and he is Shadrach's particular discovery. Shadrach's slogan is publicity, and he engineers a publicity marriage for Jerry. Gloria Snowstorm, a vivacious typist with film ambitions, is drawn into the stunt. Shadrach's next stunt is a publicity baby, and one is launched upon the public. A sensational kidnapping takes place with surprising results. Shadrach, the unconsciously humorous dynamic director of film destinies, pursues his hard headed course until he is witched by an ancient spell. Countess Barcynska writes with first hand knowledge of the film world, and is not afraid of laying her colours boldly". Not found in Bleiler. Very Good, some rather minor cloth discoloration, some cloth bubbling to front cover, in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #29726

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn film starring Henry B. Walthall. This copy unique for being inscribed and signed by the cast of the later 1937 Paramount Picture starring Leo Carrillo and Jean Parker. First free endpaper with several line inscription signed by Leo Carillo in the year of production to the assistant director on the film, Ralph Slosser, who had over 50 career films to his credit. Verso of page with short inscription signed by co-star Jean Parker and signatures of fellow cast members - Otto Kruger, Robert Barrat, Sara Haden, Addison Richards, Andy Clyde (and Eugene Strong, location manager). Carrillo was a popular actor thru the 1940's playing The Cisco Kid as well as other cowboys and Signor Ferretti in the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera. Jean Parker, an actress who appeared in over 80 films, starred in The Flying Deuces in 1939 and Little Women. Uncommon signature of actress Sara Haden who appeared in over 100 films including The Bishop's Wife (1947) and She-Wolf of London (1946), but best known as Aunt Polly in the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney. Andy Clyde featured in over 300 films during his 40 year Hollywood career including a long stretch as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick. Otto Kruger, another well known Hollywood character actor played Judge Percy Mettrick in High Noon (1952) and appeared in Saboteur (1942) and Murder, My Sweet (1944). Robert Barrat and Addison Richards both also enjoyed prolific and long film careers. Very Good to Near Fine, lacking frontis still, in an edge chipped dustjacket, half in chip to lower spine end. Item #21392

First Edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Original playbill for the play Liliom signed at front cover by the cast including Ingrid Bergman, Burgess Meredith, Helen Sheilds; Elia Kazan, John Emery, Joan Tetzel, and Ann Mason. Very Good, split along spine edge, few small chips to rear wrap. Item #20351

First Edition. Contemporary romance novel, in which the jacket copy describes: "Marriage or death! – that was the decision that faced Perry Bannister, notorious Don Juan, when he is trapped into a meeting with five of his former flames: a film star who has a bodyguard of Mexican desperadoes; a girl noted as a good shot; a woman who is drunk enough to do something desperate; a married woman with a fierce husband; a dancer who portrays, symbolically, the act of strangling a man." Very Good in faded dustjacket, light stains and wear, verso with paper tape reinforcement at edges. Item #17434

First Edition, Early Issue. P. J. Monahan dustjacket art. The creator of Tarzan's only Hollywood fiction title, and one that rails against the Hollywood lifestyle, including the use and trafficking of cocaine and other narcotics which was already in the 1920's becoming a scandal in contemporary America. Found in Anthony Slide's Hollywood Novel, but missed by Hubin, despite its clear criminal content. Early printing of this title with green cover lettering and frontis stating: "The director's eyes snapped....'Only a camera man and myself are here.'" In very early state of the colorful dustjacket with the rear panel advertising titles published by Macaulay in 1924. Near Fine in Good or Very Good dustjacket lacking lower inch of spine, shallow edge chips and closed tears. Item #25097

First Edition. W. A. Dwiggins dustjacket design. Novel of Hollywood, New York, and Mexico of a man who dreams of becoming a singer. Basis for the 1956 Anthony Mann directed film starring Mario Lanza and Joan Fontaine. Very Good, mild cocking, some wear to spine end and cover corner cloth, in near Very Good modestly soiled or darkened dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, few drip spots to verso. Item #25494

First Edition. Hollywood novel of a young woman who sells the story of her childhood to a movie producer. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #15071

First Edition. "There were three things Steve Greene wanted to do, and in the order of their importance they were: Get away from his Great Mistake (Vivian), Write the last movement of his symphony, and [fish] for record breaking bass and pike. And so he bought a trailer. How Gloria Newcombe, late of the metropolitan, and currently of Hollywood, running away from a new contract and an expensive and utterly unwanted husband, found herself in such a predicament, must not be explained here. At that moment, however, her disappearance had been ballooned into a sensational kidnapping that was not a publicity stunt. While Department of Justice men, State Troopers and assorted country sheriffs comb the trails for her, affairs inside the trailer grow ever more complicated, intimate, tempestuous, musical and enjoyable". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some edge nicks and tiny closed tears. Item #29084

First Edition. F. Rodewald dustjacket art. Story of a young woman's success and struggles in Hollywood. Very Good in a Very Good plus dustjacket with some staining to lower spine end and few creases and short closed tears. Item #18595