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Fifty (50) Important Books on Hollywood. Fifty (50) Important Books on Hollywood. A choice collection of acclaimed books on the movies as chosen by a panel of film scholars, including Kenneth Turan, movie critic for The Los Angeles Times. All books are in collectors' condition. Among the highlights in the collection are: 100 Books on Hollywood & The Movies. Edited by Charles Heiskell and annotated by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles: Book Collectors, 1993 (one of 500 numbered copies, being the entire edition); Ross, Lillian. Picture: A Story About Hollywood, New York: Rinehart, [1952], First edition; Solomon, Charles. Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation, New York: Knopf, 1989, First edition; Swanson, Gloria. Swanson On Swanson, New York: Random House, [1980], First edition, signed by Swanson; Kael, Pauline. The Citizen Kane Book, Boston: Little, Brown, [1971], First edition; Kobal, John. The Art Of The Great Hollywood Photographers, 1925-1940, New York: Knopf, 1980, First edition; Lewton, Val. Val Lewton: The Reality of Terror by Joel E. Siegel, New York: Viking Press, [1973], First edition; Fowler, Gene. Minutes of the Last Meeting, New York: Viking Press, [1954], First edition; Haver, Ronald. David O. Selznick's Hollywood, New York: Knopf, 1980, First edition; Chayefsky, Paddy. The Goddess: A Screenplay, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958, First edition; The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, New York: Outerbridge & Lazard, [1972], First edition; Dunne, Philip. Take Two: A Life In Movies And Politics, New York: McGraw-Hill, [1980], First edition, including a laid-in 1990 autograph letter signed by Dunne to publisher Noel Young; Allen, Woody. (Pseudonym of Allen Stewart Konigsberg). Four Films of Woody Allen: Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, and Stardust Memories, New York: Random House, [1982], First edition; Brooks, Louise. Lulu In Hollywood, New York: Knopf, 1982, First edition, with laid-in handwritten comment on Citizen Kane by Brooks; Brownlow, Kevin. The Parade's Gone By, New York: Knopf, 1968, First edition. Complete listing of books available upon request. Assembling a group of these titles today, in such fine condition, would be a very difficult undertaking.

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