Finally Truffaut
New York: Beaufort Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight, near fine copy. More
Film Studies
Robert Altman : American Innovator (Popular Library Film Series)
New York: Popular Library, 1978. About 100 b/w Photographs (chiefly Film stills). First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 282, [6] pages. Coverage of the noted American director's career through "Three Women"; includes filmography and a generous selection of film stills. Few small nicks, slight rubbing and... More
Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka Starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas (A Darien House Book) (The Film Classics Library)
New York: Universe Books, 1975. Over 1500 b/w Photographs (film stills). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages. Spine title: Ninotchka. Reconstruction in book format of the 1939 classic comedy in film stills and dialogue, with the editor's introduction and acknowledgments. Slight soiling, creases and... More
Up the Years from Bloomsbury: An Autobiography
Boston: Little, Brown, 1927. 17 b/w photos / plates. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good (sl rubbing to cloth; prev owner's inscr). 8vo [10]+321pp+plts. More
Who Was Will Rogers?
Santa Ynez Press, 1981. B&W Photographs. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine fading, light curling to front wrap, light wear to corners. More
The Technique of Documentary Film Production
New York: Hastings House, 1963. Over 25 b/w Illustrations. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG-/VG- in DJ (sm chips/nicks/rubbing to DJ; prev owner's marks). 8vo with D J [4]+268 Preface by Paul Rotha. Series: The Library of Communication Techn iques. Printed in Great Britain. More
Reminiscences of Henry Clay Barnabee: Being an Attempt to Account for His L ife ...
Boston: Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1913. over 100 b/w photos / plates. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good (sl fading/rubbing to cloth). 8vo [10]+461+plts Title on spine and upper cover: My Wanderings. Edited, with an introduction, by George Leon Varney. Boldly signed and inscribed... More
The Film Spectator Vol. 9, No. 3 January 18, 1930
Hollywood: The Film Spectator, 1930. First Thus. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Just over half of page 23/4 cut away, minor wear, stains. More
China Is Near
New York: The Orion Press [1969], 1969. over 40 b/w Photos. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo [8],160pp Screenplay of the film, plus an introduction ("Allegretto con Pessimismo") by Tommaso Chiaretti, plus a transcript of a conversation with Bellocchio, Chiaretti and Elda Tattoli during the... More
The History Boys: The Film
New York: Faber and Faber, 2006. 43 b/w Photographs / Plates (including Film stills). First American Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing to wrappers; else a nearly new copy internally. xxvi, [2], 107, [2] pages + plates. Later American softcover issue; includes the... More
From the Life of the Marionettes
New York: Pantheon Books [1980], 1980. over 20 b/w Photos. First US Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo 98,[1]pp Script for the film, with the writer/director's preface and numerous stills; originally published in Sweden under title: Ur Marionetternas Liv. Translated by Alan Blair. VG- in wrappers... More
Scenes From a Marriage
New York: Bantam, 1977. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fair, cheap reading copy. Wear and creasing to spine and wraps. More
The Serpent's Egg
New York: Pantheon, 1977. B/W Photographs. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG- Remainder mark, small tear and minor wear to DJ. More
Ingrid Bergman
New York: Galahad Books, 1973. over 125 b/w Photos. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG- in jacket (few sm nicks/sl rub/price clip to jacket). 8vo with DJ 157 ,[2]pp ISBN 0-88365-164-5. Preface by Ted Sennett; includes filmography and bibliography. Series: The Pictorial Treasury of..... More
Ingrid Bergman : An Intimate Portrait
New York: David McKay Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix, [1], 365 pages. Notable for the included intimate correspondence between the author and his subject; also for the upper jacket cover color photographic portrait of Bergman by Cecil Beaton. Presentation copy, signed (in... More
The Exterminating Angel, Nazarin, and Los Olvidados: Three Films
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1972. B&W Stills. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight copy. Wear to cover. More
Tristana (Modern Film Scripts Series)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. 52 b/w Photographs (film stills). First US Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144 pages. Scenario of the film (based on the French script, in turn based on the novel by Perez Galdos); notable for the reproductions of film stills throughout... More
Living it Up, or They Still Love Me in Altoona!
London: W.H. Allen, 1977. B/W Photographs. First British Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gift inscription signed by George Burns to front endpaper. Some fading to board edges, scuff to spine, wear to corners, pages browned. More
Pictures in My Head
Boulder, CO, U.S.A. Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1997. First Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Solid used copy - some wear; some spotting. More
Film Quarterly : Volume 38, Number 1 : Fall 1984
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984. Over 30 b/w illustrations; Advertising Matter. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Notable for the articles "Music Video and the Spectator: Television, Ideology and Dream" by Marsha Kinder and "Filming the Inside of His Own Head: Godard's... More
Archaeology of the Cinema
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. 293 b/w Illustrations (including photographs); b/w Pictorial Title Page. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 264 pages. Focus on the developments made prior to 1897 (chiefly in Europe); includes a select bibliography and index. Few small nicks, slight... More
A Nous la Liberté, and Entr'acte: Films By Rene Clair
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. B/W Photographs. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A good+ copy with sunning to spine; rubbing and scuffing to wraps; minor bumping to edges and corners. More
Dreamgirls
NP [Los Angeles?]: NP [DreamWorks LLC / Paramount Pictures?], 2006. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing to wrappers; else a nearly new copy internally. 116 pages. Screenplay of the DreamWorks/Paramount film "based on the original Broadway production" (upper wrapper); includes the lyrics by... More
Garbo and the Night Watchmen: A Selection Made in 1937 from the Writings of British and American Film Critics
New York: McGraw-Hill [1971], 1971. about 140 b/w photos. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG in jacket (few sm nicks/sl rub/price clip to jacket). 8vo with DJ 285 pp ISBN 0-07-012490-6. Includes critical essays by Cecilia Ager, Robert Forsythe, Graham Greene, Robert Herring, Meyer..... More
Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood
Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997. 20 b/w Illustrations (chiefly photographs; Including Frontispiece portrait). First Edition Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing to wrappers; minor bump to lower edges; else a nearly new copy as issued. [10], 194, [1] pages. Focus on the... More