Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius

Charles Higham

ISBN 10: 0450392848 / ISBN 13: 9780450392849

Published by New English Library, London, 1986

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First edition first printing large octavo hardback.xiv + 377 pp Illustrated Very Goos + condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
• Publisher: New English Library, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0450392848
• ISBN 13: 9780450392849
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 800 grams
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Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius

From Library Journal

This is the second full-length biography of one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century show business. The other, Barbara Leaming's recent study ( LJ 8/85), had the advantage of Welles's cooperation. Not only that, but it is better written and better researched and provides a generally more reflective look at its subject. Higham's book is curiously shaped; it spends an inordinate amount of time tracing Welles's genealogy, but gives a mere 30 pages to the last 35 years of his life. Only an exceptionally comprehensive collection would require this. Thomas Wiener, ``American Film,'' Washington, D.C.
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