The Variety History of Show Business

223pp, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Covers sun-faded, especially last 0.5cm of bottom front. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine and front sun faded, has some minor shelf wear, mirrors book damage. . 4to. Covers the great events of show-business history with style, with each of the forty chapters focussing on a pivotal event, introducing its key players, and exploring its long-term impact on show business from the shooting of the first movies in Hollywood in 1913, the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 to the first MTV broadcast in 1981 and the retirement of Johnny Carson in 1992.