Charlton Heston Beijing Diary First Ed and similar items

BEIJING DIARY By Charlton Heston Introduction, Photographs, Captions by Lydia Clarke Heston New York: Simon Schuster, (1990). First edition, first printing. Contains publisher's first printing number code sequence 1 through 10. Warmly inscribed "For Walter and Mickey with long love as ever...1950 to 1991 and on!" and SIGNED 'Chuck' by Charlton Heston and also SIGNED 'and Lydia' by actress, renowned photographer, and Charlton's wife Lydia Clarke Heston, to the front end-paper. The major film actor's memoir of directing the play THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL in China with an all-Chinese cast crew. An important theater memoir and a significant journal of political difficulties in China during that period.. Enhanced with a bounty of photographs. A detailed and enjoyable memoir. Fine in bright rose linen over brown-mustard boards with gilt titles embossed to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the lower spine edge; original $18.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Square octavo; 175 pages. Unusual SIGNED by both! FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.