HOW TO GO TO THE MOVIES Quentin Crisp
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HOW TO GO TO THE MOVIES Quentin Crisp
A first UK edition, first print hardback copy of HOW TO GO TO THE MOVIES, by Quentin Crisp (author of The Naked Civil Servant) and published by Hamish Hamilton in 1990.The book is in fine condition (clean black boards with bright orange/brown lettering to spine) with only very minor wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (very light rubbing/creasing to edges, slight bumping to corners, hardly worth mentioning). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Since moving to New York in the early 1980s, Quentin Crisp has brought his love of the cinema and his notorious wit together in a series of monthly essays on films and film stars. A veteran filmgoer of seventy years who has kept a vigilant eye on changing Hollywood styles and public tastes, Crisp discusses both films and stars with his typical panache and dexterity, and leads his readers with polite madness to a clear, straightforward moral, proving himself to be an unexpected champion of good sense. Along the way, he shares his personal encounters with the likes of Lillian Gish, John Hurt, David Hockney, Divine, Sting and Geraldine Page: '[Miss Page] was lying on the floor of a dim basement room on the east side of Manhatten. I could hardly, in these circumstances, kneel at her feet.'
224 pages
ISBN: 0 241 12936 2
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