The young Errol : Flynn before Hollywood

A$40 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1975. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers (paperback), light rubbing to edges, short crease, spine faded, pp. [vi]; 154; 16 pp. black and white photographic plates. The first edition of Moore s revealing insight into Flynn s early years, prior to his fame, derived from first hand sources in New Guinea and Australia. Sought after by collectors. A fascinating account of the early life of one of Australia s most colorful and controversial sons. John Hammond Moore trace film star Errol Flynn s turbulent career from his birth in sedate Hobart through his eccentric schooldays and his youth in Sydney and cruising the Pacific to his years as a pioneer tobacco planter in Papua and the discovery that led to Hollywood and stardom. The author comments: While his golden age in Hollywood produced some wondrous swashbuckling, Errol Flynn was not really acting at all. He was merely transferring a natural style developed in Sydney, Port Moresby, Rabaul, and London to a much larger audience . Anecdotes, quotations from Flynn s own diaries and from people who knew him in Australia and Papua New Guinea crowd one upon the other to underscore this truth, and to embellish this rollicking tale of a man who in the author s words: lived for half a century the sort of life adolescents dream of but men dare not attempt . the back cover.

• Binding: Hardcover

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