Von Stroheim [Erich]

New York: Farr, Straus and Giroux, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. First edition. Jacket edges bumped. Top page ridge foxed. 1971 Hard Cover. xxii, 357 pp. These pages contain the true details of Erich Von Stroheim's years of poverty in New York, following his flight from Vienna at age twenty-four; his first marriage in San Francisco, before he got a job in the movies as a stunt man in The Birth of a Nation, and the crucial roles that D.W. Griffith, John Emerson, Douglas Fairbanks, Carl Laemmle, Thalberg, Mayer and others played in his career.