Allan Dwan the last pioneer by Peter Bogdanovitch, SIGNED by Bogdanovitch.

The Praeger Film Library is a series of authoritative and readable books on various aspects of the cinema. Each is lavishly illustrated with stills and frame enlargements closely integrated with the text. In The Last Pioneer, Peter Bogdanovitch explores the life and work of Allan Dwan. In half-a-century making films, Allan Dwan worked with D. W. Griffith, directed Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson and Shirley Temple, and made action pictures like "Suez" and "Sands of Iwo-Jima."

This copy is SIGNED and INSCIBED by Bogdanovitch. Bogdanovitch was, of course, himself an accomplished director and actor, famous for directing such classics as “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon”.

Inscription is to Stuart Oderman, piano composer for silent films.

Hardcover: Near Fine or better, jacket near fine or better.