Huxley in Hollywood
by Dunaway, David King
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747506361
- ISBN 13
- 9780747506362
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: photographic. the edges of the text block are slightly darkened with age. Some handling marks and slight rubbing of the edges of the illustrated softcover binding. In the summer of 1937 the author of Brave New World travel to America to lecture in pacifism. The author conducts an unforgettably engaging tour through the twists of Huxley's fate in the US, Â from celebrity to despair and isolation, through agonies of conscience and the quest for Innovision. Because a sudden fire in Hollywood destroyed Huxley's papers, Dunaway's task of reconstruction, calling on a wealth of interviews, is one fewwriters have attempted. Dunaway was able to obtain FBI documents on Aldous Huxley and a number of film scripts by him previously thought to be lost. Â Front fold over blurb Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. XX, 460 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0747506361. ISBN/EAN: 9780747506362. Inventory No: 0270246. . 9780747506362
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0270246
- Title
- Huxley in Hollywood
- Author
- Dunaway, David King
- Illustrator
- photographic
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747506361
- ISBN 13
- 9780747506362
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- BZDB2 biography and literary Aldous Huxley, Hollywood, America, pacifism Biography & Autobiography; Literature & Literary. photographic Unbranded ISBN: 0747506361 EAN: 9780747506362 Dunaway, David King Huxley in Hollywood
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About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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