Search Results: the slide area scenes of hollywood by gavin lambert

Serpent's Tail, 1998. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 223 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches.

Dial Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hamish Hamilton, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. Reprint. 223 pages. Dust jacket over green cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and to both endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Notable mottling. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Penguin, 1963, first printing,. 1963. Soft cover. paperback, slight browning, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition .

The Dial Press. NY. 1968. 2nd ed. 1st print. Cl.w.dj.. 7 fictional stories of Hollywood by the critic & novelist. Dj. designed & illus. by Seymour Chwast. For some reason this ed. shows up less frequently than the true 1st. Tiny chip. to bott. of spine panel & tiny piece missing from of the top of sp. p anel & tiny wear to pts. Vg+/vg.

Penguin Books, Harmondworth. 1963. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. 1963. Paperback. 232 pages. Extremities v. sl. rubbed.

Ballantine Comstock. 1972 Ballantine Comstock edition paperback, first thus; as new condition (has been kept by collector in cellophane pack, unread); UK dealer, immediate dispatch . As New. Paperback. 1972.

London,, 1959. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in near fine dust jacket with very slight tanning. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. . 8vo. pp 223. Original publisher's teal cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Jacket designed by Patricia Davey.

DIAL PRESS NY, 1968. HBDJ, 1968, Stated 1st Dial Printing, 1st Edition THUS, FINE-/NF-, AS-IS, Dustjacket light Rub, wear Scuff & Tiny Chips tears Extremities, Beautiful Lavender Cloth Titled in Blue Gilt on Spine Cvr, Interior Nice tight Clean light Wear, 223 pgs, .Rocks Fall & Earth is Apt to Slip Away without Warning .. Includes 7 Stories, Indelible Sketch of the Hollywood Scene, Countess Marguerite Osterberg-Steblechi with her 2 Death Watching Sisters etc Screenwriter's first book ,the British-born author and screenwriter's first work of fiction. A Hollywood fiction cornerstone. . First Thus. Hard Cover.

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Berkley Medallion, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Richard Powers. First paperback edition/printing (1960 Berkley G462). Fine, unread condition with one light front cover crease. Scarce in this edition!

London : Hamish Hamilton , 1959. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8" by 5". none . A very smart first edition copy of Gavin Lambert's series of short stories considering the dreamers of Hollywood. This is a first edition copy of The Slide Area, a collection of seven short stories that portray the dreamers that flock to Hollywood and their dreams. Gavin Lambery was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who wrote about Hollywood and the film industry.  In the original unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the spine. With a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the lovely original unclipped dustwrapper that is slightly faded and bumped to the spine and a little faded to the wraps. Near Fine

Hamish Hamilton., 1959. First edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Still one of the best books written about the Hollywood scene. Puff on the dustwrapper (''How I wish I had written this book!'') by Christopher Isherwood.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the title-page: ''to Andrew (from Cheltendale) - Gavin Lambert''. The recipient is Andrew Wickham who worked in Los Angeles during the sixties finding musical talent for Warner Brothers. Lambert and Wickham were both alumni of Cheltenham College, so the reference in the inscription must be some kind of in-joke.Fine in fine dustwrapper with a hint of fading to the spine.