Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star Vintage softcover book

Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star, was published in the United States by New York Zoetrope in 1986. It is an English translated reissue of an original French text edited by Roland Jaccard, "Louise Brooks Portraite d'une Artistan," which was the first and only book about silent film star Louise Brooks to appear in her lifetime in 1977. This soft cover book includes two of Brooks' previously published articles, as well as one letter and one other previously unpublished piece, "A certain idea of freedom", about Brooks' parents and childhood; it also includes one of Lotte Eisner's essays about Brooks, and (as Barry Paris put it in his biography) "other ecstatic homages to her beauty". These homages including three other essays, two by Roland Jaccard and one by Jean-Michel Palmier, and two poems, one by Tahar Ben Jelloun and one by Andre Laude. Louise Brooks: Portrait of an Anti-Star also includes a few pages of both the Brooks-inspired Dixie Dugan and Valentina cartoons, as well as 90 black-and-white images-- many of them scarce images including film stills. 159 pages; 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm minor wear, creasing. Pages all present + intact