BERNSTEIN, Leonard.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Findings. First UK edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Clive Hirschhorn, Leonard Bernstein". Bernstein's "half century of written observations" was first published in the US earlier the same year.This copy is from the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn (b. 1940), who spent decades as the Sunday Express film and theatre critic and whose various histories of Hollywood include The Warner Bros. Story (1978) and The Hollywood Musical (1981). His ownership inscription, dated May 1983, is on the front pastedown.

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