Rosenstein Jaik (11 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover, missing jacket. Clean text, moderate wear. Slant to spine, binding cracked in one or two places. Sunning to spine. Good only.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth, is in FAIR condition, having many issues: corners bumped and worn; rubbing/scuffing and slight staining to covers and spine; top and bottom spine worn; what looks like accidental lead pencil swipe on front cover; evidence of old bookplate removed from first fixed endpaper; faint evidence of former bookseller's pricing at top area of first free endpaper; top right corner of FFE is clipped; small stain at top gutter of first endpaper section, that continues diminishing into the book, finally disappearing after p. 25; normal age-toning to pages. The world of Hollywood as seen by the assistant to Hedda Hopper, newspaper celebrity gossip columnist, not glamorous, but gritty and down-beat. History. United States. State and local. California. Hollywood. Performing arts. Film. DB.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, a touch of fading to spine cloth]. Anecdotal sort-of memoir by a genuine old-Hollywood character. Rosenstein learned his trade, if you can call it that, digging up dirt on movie people for renowned Hollywood gossip-monger Hedda Hopper -- and even though he'd left her employ by the time he penned this book, he dedicated it to her "because she's Miss Hollywood / unpredictable and perverse / but never, never a bore." (You could say the same thing about Jaik himself.) A fair amount of the book, in fact, is about H.H. herself, and near the end he reports that "before she ever read a line of the copy, she made all kinds of hysterical threats, and bared her fangs." Jaik (or "Joe," as he styles himself for purposes of his scattershot narrative) is a vigorous if not especially elegant writer, and he dishes big-time on the personalities of his day, from movie stars to moguls; he also spills a lot of ink on "Joe's" relationship with "Gwen," a wannabe actress. The thing about Rosenstein was that regardless of the veracity of any of his tales, he is endlessly entertaining. Eight years after this book appeared, he founded the publication "Hollywood Close-up," which for the next twenty years or so he used to tout his friends and attack his enemies in The Biz (he had a particular thing about Frank Sinatra), bringing approbation and libel suits galore down on his head, and in the process earning himself a kind of low-life Tinseltown immortality. Somebody (seriously) should write a real book about this guy, or at least a decent Wikipedia page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no. 2026.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Madison Press: 1950. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. No additional printings indicated. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Unclipped jacket is rubbed along the front cover. Book is near fine, jacket is very good.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket has sunning to the spine. Small chips to the top of the spine, and a short closed tear to the front cover. Red cloth with gilt lettering in a yellow printed dust jacket. Memoirs of a press agent who also worked as assistant to Hedda Hopper. ; 212 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 212 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine And Front Cover Lettered In Gilt. Apparent First Printing, 1950, And First Binding. Inscribed At Length By Author To Jack Voglin (See Imdb). Slight Usage, Gilt Brilliant, Traces Of A Former (Studio Or Agent?) Label On Front Pastedown. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. First Edition. Signed and intimately inscribed to Gale Robbins (singer/actress who starred in Calamity Jane and other Hollywood movies and TV). Burgundy full-cloth boards with gold foil-stamped cover and spine. Very Good (-) cond. Flaws: moderate fading to spine cover and top spine edge has two short tears (longest is 3/8"). Slightly toned pages. NO other flaws. Textblock is so tight that it must be unread. DJ is lightly chipped at spine edges only and spine is moderately faded. Price intact: $2.95. Protected in archival cover. Inscribed by Author(s).…