john gilbert wilkins (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Bartholomew Wilkins and Partners (illustrator). 1st UK edition. [nice clean book, upper corners bumped but no other significant wear, small bookseller's stamp on front endpaper (Larry Edmunds Cinema Bookshop); jacket lightly worn, slightly bumped at the upper extremities]. (B&W photographs) A biography, by his daughter, of the silent screen idol John Gilbert -- he whose career famously (or perhaps one should say mythologically) went rapidly downhill after the advent of the talkies, allegedly due to his insufficiently manly speaking voice. All nonsense, says his daughter, whose premise (per the jacket copy) is that his "career declined not because of his unsuitability for talking pictures (he spoke in a light baritone) but because of the implacable hatred of Louis B. Mayer, the tyrannical head of MGM," who deliberately destroyed Gilbert's career due to their clashes "over artistic and personal differences.".

Zustand: Very Good. John Gilbert Wilkins Chicago 1926 In very good condition, portfolio and cloth ties in excellent condition, gilt bright, top corners only slightly bumped, 157 plates bright and clean. $NRP.