8vo. 507pp. With 16 photographic plates. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt, with the original striking dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly marked and price-clipped. Inked gift inscription to FFEP: 'November 1999. Dear Joan, This is very rude and very funny and I trust you know several of the culprits! Happy Birthday, Love (?) Foster'.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood is a somewhat controversial take on Hollywood in the 1960s-80s by American journalist Peter Biskind. Various names featured in the tell-all expose refuted much of it's contents.

Inscribed to Laurence Oliver's third wife Joan Plowright (b.1929), in honour of her seventieth birthday.

From the library of Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier, to whom many books were gifted over the length of their illustrious, industrious, and enduring careers and enduring marriage.