London: Fortune Press, (1950).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition. A small smudge on the front fly, and light general wear, a very good copy in a presentable, good dustwrapper with several external tape repairs. Inscribed by the author to Thomas Quinn Curtiss: "To Tom with good wishes and thanks. Peter, 1950." Curtiss, a close friend of Von Stroheim, contributes an essay to this volume, and later wrote his own biography of the director/actor, appropriately entitled *Von Stroheim*. Curtiss, who studied with Sergei Eisenstein, was a film critic, 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. A superb association.
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