Author: BOGARDE, DIRK
Title: Snakes and Ladders
Description: London, Chatto and Windus. 1978, First. (ISBN: 070112377X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which id not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 339 pages and 20 illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. The second volume of the actor's biography in which his story continues from the trial of army training camp at Catterick to the greatest challenge of his film career, the role of von Aschenbach in Death in Venice. Challenges have been a constant feature of Dirk Bogarde's life, some brought by chance, some self-imposed. It was an accident which altered his army career, a mistake which launched him into films. But his disregard of Noel Coward's advice ('Never, ever go near the cinema'), his determination to prove himself as an actor, and when the moment came to leave the commercial cinema, his personal commitment to films that required courage and imagination to make - these changes came from within him. A1D. Fine/Near Fine.

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