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O'Donnell, Pierce, And McDougal, Dennis
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New York Doubleday c1992 First Edition. First Printing Hard cover Very good, very good 25 cm, 576, illus., index, several pages at rear slightly creased. Introduction by Art Buchwald.
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ISBN10: 0385416865, ISBN13: 9780385416863, [publisher: Doubleday, New York] Hardcover First Edition 25 cm, 576, illus., index, several pages at rear slightly creased. Introduction by Art Buchwald.
[Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
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O'Donnell Pierce and McDougal Dennis
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25.31
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New York: Doubleday, cDate: 1992. First Edition. First Printing. very good, very good. 25 cm, 576, illus., index, several pages at rear slightly creased. Introduction by Art Buchwald. 1992. Doubleday ISBN 0385416865 9780385416863 [US]
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New York: Doubleday, Date: 1992. xxvii, 576 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. SIGNED by the authors Pierce O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal on the front free endpaper. A near-fine copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "In the tradition of Indecent Exposure and Final Cut, Fatal Subtraction is a reads-like-a-novel account of the most sensational, precedent-setting lawsuit in Hollywood history, told in the voice of the flamboyant lawyer who took on a major studio and won. In 1988, Art Buchwald, America's most popular humorist, and his partner, producer Alain Bernheim, sued Paramount Pictures, claiming that the studio failed to give them credit for the original story of Eddie Murphy's hit, Coming to America. To represent them, Buchwald and Bernheim hired Pierce O'Donnell, the brash, charismatic Los Angeles trial lawyer whom Forbes has called 'the new Perry Mason.' In Fatal Subtraction, O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal chronicle the enthralling narrative of the history-making four-year-long clash between a writer/producer team and the corporate monolith that pulls the strings of a modern motion picture studio. After O'Donnell proved that Paramount used Buchwald's story, the studio asserted that the $350-million-grossing movie never earned 'net profits' for his clients. The Buchwald-Bernheim challenge to the very legitimacy of creative accounting in the motion picture industry ultimately ...
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ISBN10: 0385416865, ISBN13: 9780385416863, [publisher: Doubleday, New York] Hardcover xxvii, 576 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. SIGNED by the authors Pierce O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal on the front free endpaper. A near-fine copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "In the tradition of Indecent Exposure and Final Cut, Fatal Subtraction is a reads-like-a-novel account of the most sensational, precedent-setting lawsuit in Hollywood history, told in the voice of the flamboyant lawyer who took on a major studio and won. In 1988, Art Buchwald, America's most popular humorist, and his partner, producer Alain Bernheim, sued Paramount Pictures, claiming that the studio failed to give them credit for the original story of Eddie Murphy's hit, Coming to America. To represent them, Buchwald and Bernheim hired Pierce O'Donnell, the brash, charismatic Los Angeles trial lawyer whom Forbes has called 'the new Perry Mason.' In Fatal Subtraction, O'Donnell and Dennis McDougal chronicle the enthralling narrative of the history-making four-year-long clash between a writer/producer team and the corporate monolith that pulls the strings of a modern motion picture studio. After O'Donnell proved that Paramount used Buchwald's story, the studio asserted that the $350-million-grossing movie never earned 'net profits' for his clients. The Buchwald-Bernheim challenge to the very ...
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New York, New York, U.S.A. : Doubleday, Date: 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An account of the lawsuit filed by columnist Art Buchwald when he failed to receive credit for the original story of the movie "Coming to America" and the duplicitous accounting methodology employed by the studio to expense out all the net profits of this enormously successful movie. As new, first edition, first printing, in near-fine (price-clipped, else as new) mylar-protected dust jacket 576 pp, with Index.{Not remainder-marked} BUND 1992. Doubleday ISBN 0385416865 9780385416863 [US]
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ISBN10: 0385416865, ISBN13: 9780385416863, [publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition An account of the lawsuit filed by columnist Art Buchwald when he failed to receive credit for the original story of the movie "Coming to America" and the duplicitous accounting methodology employed by the studio to expense out all the net profits of this enormously successful movie. As new, first edition, first printing, in near-fine (price-clipped, else as new) mylar-protected dust jacket 576 pp, with Index.{Not remainder-marked} BUND
[Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]
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Booksleuth via Alibris /Alibris
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N.Y., N.Y. Doubleday 1992 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Good jacket DJ has price sticker front cover, 1 inch open tear front top corner. Volume shows full number line some soiling to page edges.
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