Edited by Sandy Sturges (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 1990 reprint. 352pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good in a near Fine dj [top corners are bumped; some pages mid-text are rippled near bottom edges; else G] Colorful bookmark promoting this book is laid in. An autobiography by the wife of Preston Sturges (1898-1959), the great director of Hollywood screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s, drawing upon his journals and illustrated with 27 family photographs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First printing, full number line. Preston Sturges (1898-1959) won the first Oscar for writing an original screenplay (for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty") and went on to direct such classics as "The Lady Eve" and "Palm Beach Story." This is an unfinished autobiography, adapted and edited by his fourth and final wife, Anne (Sandy) Sturges. An erratum slip laid in, saying the correct copyright is 1990 by Anne Sturges. Remainder mark to bottom page edges, else unmarked; spine is square; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $22.95); light edgewear at spine ends and corners. Brodart protected.…

Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket; 352pp. ; 8vo. Illustrated by Few Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 3rd printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "There's nothing ordinary about the up-and-down life described; it's a slapstick life---the reader keeps recalling the tantrummy flamboyance of Sturges's comedies. The book and the movies are so clearly the expression of the same uninhibited sensibility that each adds to the pleasure of the other."---Pauline Kael. "A firsthand glimpse into the personal side which formed the man responsible for arguably the brightest comic cinema to come out of the studio system. Preston Sturges made outstanding social comedies with a profound understanding of human nature---perhaps because his life was filled with the same twists of fate that could bring a reflective, literate and cultivated man to, of all places, Hollywood. His amazing journey and the collage of people and events he observed along the way (many of which he captured on film) read like a plot from one of his own movies."---Martin Scorsese. Pristine hardcover w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, b&w photos & a NF intact jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. There's a 3 inch sratch on the back of dust jacket w/very minor shelf-rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. The great Sturges's autobio. drawn from his journals Jacket blurbs by Martin Scorsese, David Mamet and Pauline Kael. 14pgs. of photos. Corner fold to the front flap. Near fine/vg. Laid in is a foldover brochure for the dvd release of the lady eve along with one for Unfaithfully Yours. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine dj. 2nd printing. [minimal shelfwear, very slight waviness to pages, a couple of tiny faint stains on bottom edge; jacket shows light surface wear, minor wrinkling at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For Jim") and SIGNED by Sandy Sturges on the dedication page. Ersatz autobiography of the great writer-director, assembled by his widow from his letters, journals and a manuscript left unfinished at the time of his death in 1959. (Sturges's discussion of his Hollywood career, interestingly, takes up only about the last one-quarter of the book.) Signed by Editor. Illustrated by (dj design) Lawrence Ratzkin (illustrator).…