Knock Wood By Candice Bergen
Knock Wood (First Edition Collectible Copy)
The Candid, Eloquent, and Deeply Reflective Memoir of Hollywood Royalty, Modeling, and Cinematic Stardom
The Candid, Eloquent, and Deeply Reflective Memoir of Hollywood Royalty, Modeling, and Cinematic Stardom
Bibliographic Specifications
• Title: Knock Wood
• Author: Candice Bergen
• Publisher: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0671252941
• ISBN-13: 9780671252946
• Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover Release.
• Binding: Original publisher's premium quarter-cloth boards featuring elegant metallic foil-stamped lettering across the spine, structurally balanced by clean contemporary endpapers.
• Physical Format: Large Octavo (8vo), 320 pages. Enriched with central monochrome photographic sections containing rare family snapshots, childhood portraits with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and iconic career stills.
• Language: English
• Title: Knock Wood
• Author: Candice Bergen
• Publisher: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• ISBN-10: 0671252941
• ISBN-13: 9780671252946
• Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover Release.
• Binding: Original publisher's premium quarter-cloth boards featuring elegant metallic foil-stamped lettering across the spine, structurally balanced by clean contemporary endpapers.
• Physical Format: Large Octavo (8vo), 320 pages. Enriched with central monochrome photographic sections containing rare family snapshots, childhood portraits with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and iconic career stills.
• Language: English
Official Condition Report
• The Book: Used – Very Good (VG)
o Exterior / Boards: The cloth and paper boards are remarkably flat, clean, and structurally sound. The geometric corner tips remain square, and the panels show very minimal signs of storage wear. The spine is completely straight, sturdy, uncreased, and undamaged, keeping its tight original retail structural integrity.
o Interior: The inner text block is tight, crisp, and robustly bound. All 320 interior pages and personal photographic layouts are exceptionally clean, intact, and white. Entirely free of handwritten gift inscriptions, private owner names, text highlighting, or dog-ears.
o Protection: Professionally housed and safeguarded inside an archival-grade clear Cellophane sleeve to insulate the material from handling friction.
• The Dust Jacket: Used – Very Good (VG)
o Condition: Fully present and securely enclosed within the protective Cellophane wrap. The jacket exhibits notable, authentic signs of standard retail handling and shelf wear, particularly concentrated along the extreme edges and spine extremities. This added archival Cellophane wrapper holds the character-rich dust jacket together beautifully, restoring its structural presentation and giving it an attractive, glossy finish.
• The Book: Used – Very Good (VG)
o Exterior / Boards: The cloth and paper boards are remarkably flat, clean, and structurally sound. The geometric corner tips remain square, and the panels show very minimal signs of storage wear. The spine is completely straight, sturdy, uncreased, and undamaged, keeping its tight original retail structural integrity.
o Interior: The inner text block is tight, crisp, and robustly bound. All 320 interior pages and personal photographic layouts are exceptionally clean, intact, and white. Entirely free of handwritten gift inscriptions, private owner names, text highlighting, or dog-ears.
o Protection: Professionally housed and safeguarded inside an archival-grade clear Cellophane sleeve to insulate the material from handling friction.
• The Dust Jacket: Used – Very Good (VG)
o Condition: Fully present and securely enclosed within the protective Cellophane wrap. The jacket exhibits notable, authentic signs of standard retail handling and shelf wear, particularly concentrated along the extreme edges and spine extremities. This added archival Cellophane wrapper holds the character-rich dust jacket together beautifully, restoring its structural presentation and giving it an attractive, glossy finish.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1984 by Linden Press, Knock Wood stands as an uncommonly articulate, witty, and deeply introspective autobiography by actress and photojournalist Candice Bergen. Growing up as the daughter of the legendary radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Candice describes a surreal childhood where her "brother" was the world-famous wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy—an entity she frequently felt took precedence over her in her father's affections. Bergen tracks her evolution from this high-society Hollywood childhood through her rebellious Swiss boarding school years, her meteoric rise as a top international fashion model, and her early cinematic breakthrough roles in films like The Group, Carnal Knowledge, and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Starting Over. Written with a literary sophistication that surprised contemporary critics, this true first edition serves as an essential, unvarnished historical record of the shifting social landscapes of 1960s and 1970s Hollywood culture.
Published in 1984 by Linden Press, Knock Wood stands as an uncommonly articulate, witty, and deeply introspective autobiography by actress and photojournalist Candice Bergen. Growing up as the daughter of the legendary radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Candice describes a surreal childhood where her "brother" was the world-famous wooden dummy Charlie McCarthy—an entity she frequently felt took precedence over her in her father's affections. Bergen tracks her evolution from this high-society Hollywood childhood through her rebellious Swiss boarding school years, her meteoric rise as a top international fashion model, and her early cinematic breakthrough roles in films like The Group, Carnal Knowledge, and her Academy Award-nominated performance in Starting Over. Written with a literary sophistication that surprised contemporary critics, this true first edition serves as an essential, unvarnished historical record of the shifting social landscapes of 1960s and 1970s Hollywood culture.
Author Profile: Candice Bergen
Candice Bergen (born 1946) is a highly celebrated American actress, producer, photojournalist, and author whose career spans over five decades of film, television, and Broadway stage success. Beyond her early career as a fashion icon and movie leading lady, Bergen achieved widespread acclaim as a photojournalist, publishing photo essays in Life, Playground, and Esquire. She later transitioned into a massive television pop-culture phenomenon, earning five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes for her historic portrayal of the pioneering, sharp-witted title character in the hit sitcom Murphy Brown. Her sharp writing talent is further demonstrated in her later critically acclaimed memoirs, solidifying her status as one of Hollywood's most capable literary voices.
Candice Bergen (born 1946) is a highly celebrated American actress, producer, photojournalist, and author whose career spans over five decades of film, television, and Broadway stage success. Beyond her early career as a fashion icon and movie leading lady, Bergen achieved widespread acclaim as a photojournalist, publishing photo essays in Life, Playground, and Esquire. She later transitioned into a massive television pop-culture phenomenon, earning five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes for her historic portrayal of the pioneering, sharp-witted title character in the hit sitcom Murphy Brown. Her sharp writing talent is further demonstrated in her later critically acclaimed memoirs, solidifying her status as one of Hollywood's most capable literary voices.
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