The Self-Enchanted -- Mae Murray: Image of an Era

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice-looking copy, with just a bit of wear to the spine ends, small stain at bottom corner of front endpaper; jacket also worn just a bit at the spine ends, with a tiny chip at the lower rear spine corner, and some other light surface wear]. (B&W photographs) A biography of the silent-film actress Mae Murray, whose life and career are put forth as emblematic of the 1920s, the "era of fabulous nonsense." The author was a longtime Hollywood columnist/journalist, who apparently prepared the book with the full cooperation of Murray herself. (Ms. Ardmore was a popular collaborator on such tomes, also co-authoring books with Edith Head and Joan Crawford.) .