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Callow, Simon.
Orson Welles:
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London;
Date of Publication: 1995
Stock Code: 12376
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvi 640. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt title to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to spine tips and creasing to dust-jacket edges. An otherwise near fine book in like jacket. Boldly signed by author, actor and writer Simon Callow, to the title page, “Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu” is the first volume in a set of three biographies about the extraordinary life of renowned writer, actor, producer and director Orson Welles. This part details his early life through to the making of “The War of the Worlds” and “Citizen Kane”, penetrating the smokescreen Welles built around himself with a balanced affection that reveals the reality of Welles’ extraordinary life matches the larger than life myth of the man. £40.00