New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - His sixth novel, the return of Henry Towns, twenty years after his first appearance - he is now 57 and a second rate screenwriter. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-2761.

Berkeley, CA: SLG Books, (1999). SIGNED hardcover - Author's debut novel - "Power, greed, envy and betrayal. Hooray for Hollywood." When an entertainment attorney, the best and the brightest in the business, dies from a shot to the head, the LAPD calls it suicide, but his brother refuses to believe it. SIGNED on the half title page. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-943389291.

New York: Harper & Row, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The authors first novel, a combination of charm and strangeness, this is the story of a 25 year old medium who lives in two worlds: the Hollywood where she jogs and the spiritual world from which come the voices of her clients' contacts as well as her own guide, a Noel Coward like chap named Pallas. Her second novel won the PK Dick award. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0149310.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." SIGNED on the title page and dated 4 June 09. Cover praise from Junot Diaz (who calls this a 'stupendous novel') and others. 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." Cover praise from Junot Diaz (who calls this a 'stupendous novel') and others. 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.

New York: Delacorte, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hollywood novel by this screenwriter. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-440-08735x.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2009). First edition - "Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. . .. [this biography] details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape." Notes and documentation, index. xii, 316 pp.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the title page by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an "unconventional love story that spans two decades, a novel of psychological suspense that probes the dark side of romance and memory. Mixed with tales of Hollywood glamour and paparazzi flashbulbs, [this is the] story of one woman's quest to put the ghosts of her past to rest through a search where nothing is as it seems, not even her own recollections." 295 pp. ISBN: 978-0060745288.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-0312534905.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - set in both contemporary and historic Los Angeles - "All that writer Cece Caruso -- a thirty-nine-year-old former beauty queen from New Jersey -- really wants to do is finish her biography of Erle Stanley Gardner so that she can finally stop obsessing about Perry Mason. Well, that and find a 1970 silk chiffon Ossie Clark to add to her collection of vintage clothing." SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. Promotional card laid in. ISBN: 0-060581050.

New York: Dell, [1954, c 1952.]. Dell 749. Hardboiled private eye mystery novel featuring Johnny Liddell who "runs afoul of gamblers, goons and girls." Good girl cover art by Carl Bobertz, cover price 25c. 191 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Sam Bonner is on a journey.He and his young wife, Sara, are traveling through the Southwest, visiting the sights that Sam himself immortalized as one of Hollywood's premier directors of a genre of film that captured a generation of viewers: the Western. There was a day when Sam ruled the industry, and death was but a far-off rumor" - but now the films are fading, and the end Sara is facing is coming inexorably closer. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-31287779X.

New York: Ives Washburn Publishers, 1934. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poetry by the son of early movie mogul, Jesse Lasky (among other things, co-founder of Paramount Pictures), who was himself a very sucessful screenwriter. Presentation copy INSCRIBED "To Julius and 'Hattie' Evans - in memory of the merry mornings at 'Mother Lubin's' - Best of luck." 59 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this author, who won and rejected the Pulitzer Prize, who seemed to have everything as a young man and lost it all. "The author's heard Saroyan's story first-hand from the witnesses in his life : Carol Matthau, the wife he rejected, the son and daughter he alternately smothered and pushed away, the famous colleagues like Artie Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Celeste Holm, Irwin Shaw, Julie Haydon and Lillian Gish. All of them speak here in their own voices, and their revelations of compulsive gambling, anti-Semitism and paralyzing jealousy bring new darkness and depth to the saga of the brash young man in the cocked fedora." Photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0151412.

New York: Random House, (1991.). First edition - The first novel - a very funny satire on Hollywood - by this Emmy award winning writer and producer. 296 pp. Publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-679-401520.

New York: Avon, (1961). A satire on Hollywood by the author of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', featuring a bedevilled film star named Viola Lake whose very private diary is about to be introduced as evidence in a murder trial. Avon F-150. cover price 40c. 127 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense set in the days of early movie making in Hollywood -one which puts a solemn Englishman into a police uniform and thrusts him into the crazy world of filmmaking at the Keystone Film Studios in 1915. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-394531248.

London: Macmillan, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense set in the days of early movie making in Hollywood -one which puts a solemn Englishman into a police uniform and thrusts him into the crazy world of filmmaking at the Keystone Film Studios in 1915. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-333350448.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Ruth Cadence, thirty-one inches tall, and of her hilarious and tragic odyssey through Hollywood. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165529.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of Ruth Cadence, thirty-one inches tall, and of her hilarious and tragic odyssey through Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165529.

Xlibris, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A satirical look at movie making, with a hack writer going from obscurity to the Oscars. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-738807761.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Following immediately after his National Book Award winning novel "Fields of Vision." this novel is a change of pace - a witty look at southern California and Hollywood culture. 253 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Following immediately after his National Book Award winning novel "Fields of Vision." this novel is a change of pace - a witty look at southern California and Hollywood culture. 253 pp.

Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second humorous mystery novel set in Los Angeles and featuring Tracy Eaton - "mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars - a heroine as impulsive, energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her." SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 1-568250770.

Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first humorous mystery novel set in Los Angeles and introducing Tracy Eaton - "mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars - a heroine as impulsive, energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Recipe card for Bailey's Irish Cream tiramisu laid in. 294 pp. ISBN: 1-568250436.