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£ 2.50    Magazine - TELEGRAPH SUNDAY MAGAZINE 26th March 1978.
             Bette Davis at 70.

£ 2.50    Magazine - YOU, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 27th April 1986.
             Kim Basinger article and photos                  

£12.50    PICTUREGOER FILM ANNUAL 1960-61.
             Odhams hardback with untorn dust jacket.  Very nice
             condition except one 4"x4" excision page 89/90 

£ 5.00    THE PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL 1937 
             (Howard Baker 1970 reprint)  
             Hardback, dust jacket, fine condition                                                                               

£ 8.00    THE FIFTY WORST MOVIES OF ALL TIME  
             by Harry Medved.  Large A4 size paperback from 
             Angus & Robertson 1978.                              

£ 7.50    SEVENTY YEARS OF CINEMA  - by Peter Cowie.
             Hardback, dust jacket, Castle Books NY. (1969)  
             Nice condition                                              

£12.50   COMING NEXT WEEK 
             A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FILM ADVERTISING 
             by Russell C Sweeney.  Hardback with dust jacket.
             Castle Books NY.  Very nice condition and rare Castle book

£ 7.50    FORTY YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD  by Roman Freulich.
             Castle Books NY. 1971 hardback, dust jacket,very nice
             condition.                                                

£ 4.50    CHAPLIN'S FILMSfilmography by Uno Asplund.
             Hardback dust jacket a little water damage. 
             Arts Book Society 1973.
                                                                           
£ 1.50    HUMPHREY BOGART Illustrated history of his films, 
             details of 83 of them by Alan G Barbour. 
             Star paperback published W H Allen  1974                                                                 

£ 4.00    MARLON BRANDO by Rene Jordan.
             Star paperback 1975  very nice condition        

£ 4.50    THE FONDAS - THE FILMS & CAREERS OF
             HENRY, JANE & PETER FONDA by John Springer.  
             First softcover edition published Citadel, Secaucus,
             New Jersey 1974.   Used but clean.

$ 4.00    VALENTINO by Noel Botham & Peter Donnelly.
             First Everest paperback edition 1976.   Very nice
             condition, with all photographs. 
             Not an easy book to find.       

£ 4.50    AL JOLSON by Michael Freedland.
             Abacus paperback 1975 another book in very nice 
             condition, complete with all photographs.
                                                                            
£ 4.00    CLASSICS OF THE SILENT SCREEN  by Joe Franklin.
             A4 paperback with bottom corner of front cover missing,
             otherwise good condition                        

£ 8.50    HOLLYWOOD AND THE GREAT FAN MAGAZINES 
             by Martin Levine. A4 size  paperback in fine condition. 
             Ian Allen 1970.                                           
 
£ 7.50    HOLLYWOOD AT WAR  THE AMERICAN MOTION 
             PICTURE AND WORLD WAR TWO by Ken D Jones 
             & Arthur F McClure  Hardback, dust jacket.
             Castle Book NY. 1973. Very nice condition, 
             but dust jacket has slight rubbing.

£ 8.50    A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD NUDITY 
             by Ray Lee.  Merit Books, Chicago.   Softback first
             edition 1964.                                     
          
£12.50   MISTER BROADCASTING - THE ERNIE BUSHELL STORY 
             by Peter Stursberg.    Very rare book published 1971 by 
             Peter Martin Ass. Ontario Canada.    Hardback in used, 
             but good condition,       NO DUST JACKET     

£ 7.50    THE IRISH PEACOCK - CONFESSIONS OF A LEGENDARY 
             TALENT AGENT by Bill Grady.  Hardback, dustjacket,.
             Arlington House 1972.  Nice condition                 

£12.50   THE GAIETY YEARS by Alan Hyman.  First edition, hardback, 
             dust jacket 1975.  A rare book in nice condition. 
             London Theatre 1886-1915                               

£15.00   MEMO FROM DAVID O SELZNICK 
             The producer's personal papers selected and edited by 
             Rudy Behlmer.   Macmillan first edition hardback, 
             dust jacket, very nice condition.            

£10.00   JEAN RENOIR  by Raymond Durgnat.
             Charles Chaplin.  "The greatest film director in the world"
             Studio Vista hardback, dust jacket and in nice condition. 
             Difficult book to find        

£ 7.50    GRIFFITHS AND THE RISE OF HOLLYWOOD 
             by Paul O'Dell   Castle Books NY.  Hardback, dust
             jacket, very nice condition                                  

£10.00   CECIL B DeMILLE biography by Charles Higham. 
             Charles Scribner NY.  Hardback, dust jacket,
             first edition 1973.     PAPER COVER INSIDE BACK
             OUTER IS LOOSE, otherwise good condition.  

£ 4.50    DeMILLE - THE MAN AND HIS PICTURES 
             by Gabe Essoe & Raymond Lee. Hardback, dust jacket,
             Castle Books NY.  Some water damage.

£ 7.50    GLORIA SWANSON  by Richard Hudson & Raymond Lee.
             Hardback, dust jacket, Castle Books NY.  
             Undated (1974?) Nice condition                            

£ 7.50    THE LIFE AND LOVES OF GABLE  by Jack Scagnetti.
             Hardback, dust jacket.  Jonathan David NY.
             First edition 1976.  Very fine condition                  

£ 4.00    THE MOVIE MOGULS  An Informal History of the 
             Hollywood Tycoons by Philip French.  Hardback,
             dust jacket, first edition,  Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969.
             Used, but not too badly        

£ 5.00    D.W.GRIFFITHS - THE YEARS AT BIOGRAPH 
             by Robert M Henderson.  First English edition, 
             hardback, dust jacket 1971                             

£ 7.00    PICTURE PIONEERS - The Story of Northern English 
             Cinema  1896-1971 by G J  Mellor.  Frank Graham 
             hardback, dust jacket, first edition (1971) in nice condition.

£ 7.50    THE CINEMA OF OTTO PREMINGER  by Gerald Pratley.
             Castle Books NY.  Hardback, dust jacket, very nice
             condition, early 70s                                     

£ 2.50    GREAT STARS OF HOLLYWOOD'S GOLDEN AGE 
             by Frank Platt.   New American Library paperback, 
             first printing 1966                                               

£2.50     MOVIE COMEDY TEAMS by Leonard Maltin.
             New American Library paperback, first printing 1970.

£ 7.50    THE PENGUIN FILM REVIEW editor Roger Manvell.   
             Paperback, complete with all photographs  1948.
             GRUBBY COVER.           A rare book.

£ 7.50    LIGHT UP YOUR TORCHES AND PULL UP YOUR TIGHTS 
             autobiography by Tay Garnett director of 
             'The Postman Always Rings Twice' etc.  
              Arlington House, hardback, dust jacket.    
              Another rare book, nice condition                             

£ 3.50    THE RISE & FALL OF THE MATINEE IDOL 
             edited by Anthony Curtis. Published Weidenfeld &
             Nicholson.  First edition, hardback no dust jacket, 1974. 
             Used condition, cover marked,  interior clean.
             With all photographs.

£ 1.50    ADOLF HITLER, MY PART IN HIS DOWNFALL by Spike Milligan. 
             Penguin  paperback.

£ 1.50    MONTY, HIS PART IN MY VICTORY by Spike Milligan.
             Penguin paperback. 
 
£ 1.50    ROMMEL? GUNNER WHO?  by Spike Milligan.
             Penguin paperback.                                  

£ 3.50    DICK EMERY IN CHARACTER 
             Explains his various TV and radio characters and 
             how he developed them.   Robson Books. Hardback, 
             dust jacket, first edition 1973, nice condition. 
      
£1.50     PETER SELLERS - THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK 
             biography by Peter Evans.  First New English Library
             edition 1980, paperback, used, with all photographs.

£ 5.00    THE ILLUSTRATED HANCOCK - by Roger Wilmut.
             Large A4 paperback from  Macdonald, near new
                                                                                                                                                      
£ 2.50   TONY HANCOCK by Philip Oakes.
             Original paperback first edition by Woburn Futura 
             1975.  Fine condition.                                  

£ 7.50    THE LIFE & TIMES OF BENNY HILL & FRANKIE HOWERD 
             by Barry Took.   Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
             Hardback, dust jacket, as new, first edition 1992.                                                                            

£10-00   MY LIFE AS A PAGE THREE GIRL Autobiography by Flanagan.  
             First edition hardback, dust jacket.    River First 1991.
             As new, comes with a well used copy of 'MEN ONLY' July 1972 
             which includes several photographs of her.                   
                                                                                                                                                      £ 1.50   BRENDAN BEHAM - MAN & SHOWMAN by Rae Jeffs.
             Corgie paperback 1968                        

£ 1.00    CONFESSIONS OF A IRISH REBEL by Brendan Behan.
             Arrow paperback 1967.     Sadly has water damage.

£ 1.50    TEEMS OF TIMES & HAPPY RETURNS by Dominic Beham.
              Four Square paperback 1963. Clean copy of autobiographical 
              book.                                                                    

£ 2.50    EVENING ALL - The autobiography of Jack Warner.
             Star paperback in very fine condition  with all photographs.
             This version 1979                                                        

£ 1.50    NOSTALGIA ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE.   1979. 
             The autobiography of Simone Signoret.  Panther paperback
             LITTLE WATER DAMAGE AND CREASED BACK COVER                                          

£ 7.50    THE MEMOIRS OF SARAH BERNHARDT 
             An autobiography from early childhood to her first 
             American tour.  American Peebles Press 1977.
             Hardback, scuffed dust jacket, used but clean condition       

£ 7.50    THE UNSINKABLE - Autobiography by Hermione Baddeley.  
             Collins hardback, dust jacket, first edition 1984, as new.

£ 4.00    OVER MY SHOULDER - Autobiography by Jessie Matthews.
             W H Allen hardback, dust jacket, 1975 reprint, as new                                                  

£ 8.00    MY LIFE & TIMES 1891 to 1900 - Compton Mackenzie 
             autobiography.   Published Chatto & Windus 1963.  
             First edition hardback, dust jacket.   Used but very nice 
             condition complete with all photographs.

£ 3.00    DAYS SEEMED LONGER - Early Days Of A Broadcaster.               
             Autobiography of Roy Plomley.  Published Eyre Methuen.  
             First hardback edition 1980, with dust jacket. Ex.library copy 

£25.00    PLAYGOER & SOCIETY ILLUSTRATED 
             Bound copies of vol.5/nos 25 to 30.  1911.   Hardback,
             complete with all coloured plates in perfect condition.

£ 7.50    THE BRAINS TRUST BOOK - Commander Campbell, 
             Dr. Julian Huxley, Prof. Joad, Donald McCullough & guests,
             edited by Howard Thomas.   Hutchinson paperback, undated
             (mid 1940s?).  Used condition, but not too badly.           

      

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