New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1971).
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Rene Clair. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a little lamination disturbance. Important biography of Von Stroheim by a close friend. Thomas Quinn Curtiss's own copy, with a letter to him laid into the book from an Italian publisher noting that "We have examined with attention and care your book Erich Von Stroheim that Mrs. Paulette Goddard has passed on to us," but declining to issue an Italian edition. Thomas Quinn Curtiss, who studied with Sergei Eisenstein, was a film critic, biographer of Erich Von Stroheim, screenwriter, and companion of Klaus Mann. During WWII he was awarded the Legion of Honor by Charles DeGaulle for saving the Luftwaffe's secret film library.
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