It Was All Quite Different: The Memoirs of Vicki Baum

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1964). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, one-time owner's name (in pencil) at top of half-title page; the jacket is a little worn along the top and bottom edges, with some minor paper loss at the top of the spine, a bit of light soiling]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published memoir by the Vienna-born author of "Grand Hotel," but who (per the jacket blurb) "emerges from this autobiography [as] no mere one-title author." (I'll say! She wrote more than fifty books, and a couple dozen movies were adapted from her novels and stories. She herself worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, with intermittent sucess.) "Immensely vital, completely charming, completely winning, a woman of courage and wit, she was part of an exciting, always challenging era." .