THE DEMILLES: AN AMERICAN FAMILY

Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1988, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-8109-1144-2.  Folio hard cover, 248 pages including Notes/Sources; Plays, Films, Choreography, Books; Bibliography; Repositories for DeMille Material; Acknowledgments, and Index.  Very good plus; clean and unmarked book with sound binding.  Dust jacket shows light cover wear with some wear at corner folds.  Colour and black & white illustrations throughout.  ‘… the flamboyant, charismatic Cecil B. DeMille; his witty, intellectual brother, William C. DeMille; William’s brilliant, innovative daughter the choreographer Agnes DeMille; and a dozen other DeMilles, whose story is told here by the noted biographer Anne Edwards.  She charts their widely divergent lives and achievements against a panorama of American life from the Civil War to the present, from Broadway to Hollywood and back.’ (from front flap)