An Open Book.

Huston (John)

An Open Book.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 48 plates showing monochrome photographs, pp. [vi], 389, 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, bookplate of John Baxter to front pastedown, dustjacket, clipping of Philip French's Observer review laid in, near fine

Publication Details: Macmillan, 1981

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the fly-title: 'For John Baxter, with every good wish'. The recipient an authority on film, whose typed notes for a Guardian Lecture on Huston and the director's appearance at the National Film Theatre (promoting this book, this with Baxter's manuscript corrections) - both of which conducted by Baxter - are laid in; tipped in to the front endpapers is Baxter's 2pp. typed account of the latter occasion, signed by him at the foot, recounting his anxiety of both his and the interviewee's readiness for the encounter, and its eventual success as Huston seemed to grow unde...moreInscribed by the author on the fly-title: 'For John Baxter, with every good wish'. The recipient an authority on film, whose typed notes for a Guardian Lecture on Huston and the director's appearance at the National Film Theatre (promoting this book, this with Baxter's manuscript corrections) - both of which conducted by Baxter - are laid in; tipped in to the front endpapers is Baxter's 2pp. typed account of the latter occasion, signed by him at the foot, recounting his anxiety of both his and the interviewee's readiness for the encounter, and its eventual success as Huston seemed to grow under the lights. HIDE