Boetticher Budd Preface Robert Stack (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited First Edition. Inscribed on half-title page nu author Budd Boetticher to Nick Beck, who is credited on copyright page for his assistance in producing the book. Dr. Beck was a university journalism professor who had an interest both in cinema and bullfighting. Contributors actor Robert Stack, Barnaby Conrad (bullfighting expert, Bill Krohn and William K. Everson all have inscribed the book to Nick adjacent to their contributions. Conrad has also added a pen sketch of a bull's head to the page he inscribed. Near fine, tight copy in fine dust jacket. 398 pages. This is the trade first edition, limited to 1000 copies. Autobiography of the noted film director and bullfighting enthusiast. Laid in are some related newspaper clippings and a one page flyer for a "Boetticher tribute at the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Presentation issue, so printed on colophon. One of an overrun of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Budd Boetticher on the colophon. Near fine in yellow cloth with orange titles & decoration laid-into an orange cloth slipcase with color pictorial plates front and back. (Faint trace of foxing at edges. ) (LR); 7 1/4" x 10 1/2"; 398 pages; Signed by Author.