Pauline Kael / STATE OF THE ART Signed 1st Edition 1985

Inscribed To Another NEW YORKER Writer. Inscribed first edition, association copy, of this collection of Pauline Kael's NEW YORKER film reviews from 1983 to 1985. Very good in a near fine jacket. Inscribed to a fellow NEW YORKER writer, the dance critic Arlene Croce, who also reviewed films for Film Culture and was a recognized authority on the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

New York: EP Dutton, (1985). Publisher's purple boards in original price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by Kael on front free endpaper, For Arlene Croce, / with admiration/ and love-/ Pauline Kael. Touches of shelf-wear to jacket.

Trivial sunning to boards at edges. Two torn pages torn at lower corners; one with tape repair.

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