Phoenix by Lawrence Bachmann, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A red cloth hardcover, 319 pages. Inscribed and signed at front free endpaper, "To George and Helen - in memory of Bucharest, Munich, Vienna, Rome, London, New York, but most of all Berlin with affection, Larry, London Sept 1956." Pages are clean and unmarked, binding is sound. Jacket with some wear, a few chips at edges. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition, first impression of this Laurence Bachmann novel, set in Berlin after the Second World War. The first edition, first impression of this novel by Lawrence Paul Bachmann, American film producer who also served in the US Army Air Forces and was the principal overseas correspondent for Air Force magazine. After a long career in the motion picture industry, he started writing novels again.A fascinating novel set in 1945 Berlin, surrounding six men who find employment in disposing of the bombs scattered about the city.A signed presentation copy, inscribed to the front free endpaper to American novelist Paul Gallico: 'For Paul - whom I resemble - in work, I hope, as well as in appearance - Affection, Larry'. This inscription is dated London, Nov. 1955. Acquired from the sale of Gallico's library. Gallico was a prolific writer, but is perhaps now best remembered for his 1969 novel 'The Poseidon Adventure', adapted into the successful 1972 motion picture. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, bright. Bumping to spine head and tail. Spotting to reverse of dust wrapper, with patches of foxing to flyleaves. Chipping to back strip head and tail, with marks to rear wrap. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

1p, 4to. Addressed to 'Dear Miss Cond' and signed 'G P Bachmann'. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded twice for postage. He apologises for the late reply to her 'nice note and the book-plate'. He gives details of two films he has been 'terribly busy making', 'neither of them stories I wrote': 'The Phoenix is to start in Berlin this winter as a very big film with three big stars. And The Lorelei is to be made this summer on the Rhine as a film.' He is sorry to learn that she has given up her restaurant in Honiton, 'Deer Park': 'It was a lovely place and without doubt the finest English cooking we've found.' He ends by informing her that his wife has returned to California for the winter, on account of her health. 'So I'm alone with the two poodles.' Eileen M. Cond was an enthusiastic collector of autographs.