Introduction Victor Navasky (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. x, 198 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. *** "Ring Lardner, Jr.'s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of an immensely popular and influential writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural privilege. After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for Hollywood where he served a bizarre apprenticeship with David O. Selznick, and won, at the age of 28, an Academy Award for Woman of the Year, the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. In 'irresistibly readable' pages (New Yorker), peopled by a cast including Carole Lombard, Louis B. Mayer, Dalton Trumbo, Marlene Dietrich, Otto Preminger, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bertolt Brecht, Bert Lahr, Robert Altman, and Muhammad Ali, Lardner recalls the strange existence of a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio systeman existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party. Lardner retraces the path that led him to a memorable confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee and thence to Federal prison and life on the Hollywood blacklist. One of the lucky few who were able to resume their careers, Lardner won his second Oscar for the screenplay to M.A.S.H. in 1970." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Used Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Printing, 1992. 547 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text. Loretta Li (Text Design); Stanton Publication Services, Inc. (Composition by) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDHistory. Very good in Very good dust jacket. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 87 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

First edition SIGNED. Fully signed by the editor on the full title page. Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Neat owner's name to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 223 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: Gallic Gaulle: le Canard enchaine and de Gaulle; The air-conditioned cabaret: Pardon and the new Germany; Ivan in wonderland: Krokodil and the bureaucracy; In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king: Monocle and the Great Society; The gray humor of Poland: Szpilki and the system; The Lord Gnome and his peers: Private eye and the establishment; Is satire really dead or is it alive and hiding out in Argentina? Tia Vicenta and the generals. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 8.75x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.