Broekman David (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is about fine, with a former owner's signature on the front pastedown. The dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has a small area of paper loss at the head of the spine. Publisher's postcard soliciting the reader's comments laid in. A film-studio musician in Hollywood, circa 1932, loses his job because of the Depression and struggles before he finds some success when he conducts a symphony at the Hollywood Bowl. See and Brooker. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by (dj design) F.E. Banbery (illustrator). First Edition. (price-clipped) [solid clean copy, bumped at bottom corners but no other significant wear, attractive (if generic) bookplate with previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, a few small tears, shallow chipping at spine ends, tiny piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, considerable fading to spine (where the title is almost unreadable)]. Interesting Hollywood not-quite-novel (although the front panel of the jacket calls it "a novel," I have in the past seen a contemporary disclaimer issued by the publisher, averring that it was in fact "a fictionalized biography, a biographie fantastique." (So in other words, like many Hollywood autobiographies of that era, it has only a glancing relationship to reality.) At any rate, it's an interesting book, a semi-comic work that has relatively little to do with the film biz per se -- however, the protagonist/narrator (named "David Broekman," incidentally) does spend an inordinate amount of time circulating among various Hollywood hangers-on and has-beens, all the while pursuing an increasingly cockeyed and desperate scheme to fulfill his dream of conducting his own symphony at the Hollywood Bowl. The author himself was an (unemployed) Hollywood conductor and composer during the Depression.

19x13. 268 pgs. (H0459).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed by author on 1st free endpaper. Octavo. Condition: minor wear to DJ; slight wear to book; else very good in good DJ. 247 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo. Original yellow cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket designed by F. E. Banbery (unclipped; small chip; spine faded). Very good. 247 pages. Signed and inscribed to actor Ken Murray: "To a dear friend and mentor. David." Broekman (b. May 13, 1902 Leiden, Holland; d. January 7, 1958, New York City), film composer, songwriter, musical director Frankenstein, 1931 (uncredited). Scored several films including "Phantom of the Opera," "All Quiet on the Western Front" and many others from 1928 to 1956. Inscribed by Author(s).