Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1966
Description: Acceptable. Penguin 1966 paperback. Cover is worn. First half of book has serious creasing to right edge. Pages tanned. A sturdy, usable, though not very attractive, book. read more
Edition: 1st Ed, 3rd Printing, So Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, NY
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Bound in illustrated covers.560 pages. Illustrated by photographs. Light wear to some few edges. Otherwise a tight, clean, complete copy with clean internals. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780671242824ISBN:0671242822
Description: Very Good. 512 Pages. Measures: 6" x 9-1/4" Clean tight copy with no writings or markings. The spine is not creased. Not an ex-Library book. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes: numerous photographs, Prelude, 31 Chapters, complete list of films and Index. read more
Edition: Hardcover Stated First Printing
Binding: Good
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Photographs. Good. No Jacket. Hardcover Biography Biography: Hardcover memoirs from the movie pioneer. A first printing with no dj and somewhat faded cover boards. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: VG/G. 512 pp. Bit of edgewear particularly on the top edge, small tears and chipping. The title page says first printing. Inside the jacket-"book of the month club selection". Slight lean to the book.; 8vo. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Non-price clipped dj is scuffed, library sticker on spine, now covered in Brodart. Boards have shelfwear. Library stamp on end pages, card pocket on fep. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, London, UK
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780140025507ISBN:0140025502
Description: Very Good. 7 1/4" Tall. 494 pages. B&W plates. Light wear to covers' corners. Page-edges yellowed o/w in very clean, tidy condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bodley Head, London
Date Published: 1964
Description: Cover corners bumped, very good; no dust jacket. 545 pp. Reprinted before publications, index, few b/w photo plates, orange cloth. read more
Edition: First Edition, Reprinted
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd, London
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good/No Jacket. Clean Copy Hard cover has general light wear. Yellowing to pages, otherwise contents sound and good, text bright and tight throughout. read more
Description: Good in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The great silent actor's autobiography. Clean and fresh interior but damp has affected the back board and the back panel of an otherwise very good jacket. read more
"I really really wanted to like this book. Perhaps I expected too much. I wanted the artist Chaplin to speak, but instead got discourse regarding dinner meetings and the like. Sure, that can be interesting, but I wanted to read about his methods, ideas, and hopes. I think since Oona was able to read it, Chaplin probably censored the book on some level. I didn't expect scandals, but there were some events that I think he could have gone deeper.
My favorite part of the book was the beginning for this very reason. He discusses the hardships he went through- working life in London, dealing with his ill mother, and the like. It was very human and gave a window into his creative ideas.
Regardless, I enjoyed it, but am looking forward to reading some of Robinson's work, which I heard is the best on the subject."
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I was interested in the man and how he became such a world famous pioneer of silent films. At the start the account of his childhood in Victorian London is heart-rending. The discent of his mother into mental illness which lead to him spending time on the streets and in the workhouse was tragic and the young charlie learnt to be resilient at a very young age. Even when he became a celebrated artist and returned to London, his love for the city was evident. At times his style of writing is formal and a bit stilted but the life he lead was so fascinating this is a small criticism. The list of amazing people he met and grew to know included such emminent names as Einstein, Debussy, Mack Sennett, Valentino, Churchill, WR Hearst and many others. An amazing life and a joy to read."
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