Marx Brothers: "Monkey Business" and "Duck Soup" (Classic film scripts)
London: Lorrimer, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original black cloth stamped in gilt (minor bumping and wear). No jacket. More
Film Studies
Porgy and Bess, the Samuel Goldwyn Motion Picture Production
New York: Random House, 1959. Color Photographs. First Thus. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Light wear to corners, scuffing to spine. Moderate shelf and handling wear. More
Finally Truffaut
New York: Beaufort Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight, near fine copy. More
Robert Altman's Pret-A-Porter
New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion, 1994. Color & b/w Photos. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near fine. 4to trlucnt wraps 187+[5]pages. Includes the complete script, plus interviews with the actors, designers, et al. More
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
Home of the Brave: A Film By Laurie Anderson
Talk Normal Productions, 1986. Full Color Illustrations. First Edition. Paperback (stapled). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Used in stapled wraps. About 24 pp. Color photos and illustrations from the movie. Shallow creasing throughout. Text by Laurie Anderson. More
Hooray for Captain Spaulding!: Verbal & Visual Gems from "Animal Crackers"
New York: Darien House/Crown, 1974. B&W Photographs. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A VG copy in a VG, mylar protected dust jacket. Light wear. Some rubbing to boards. Light soiling to endpapers; light ink to ff endpaper. 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
Buster Keaton's The General
New York: Universe, 1975. B&W Photographs. First Printing. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A solid used copy, light shelfwear, pencil comments to copyright page. Dustjacket is rough/ worn/ in new wrapper. 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
Artificial Humans: Manic Machines Controlled Bodies
NP [Berlin, Germany?]: Jovis Verlag GmbH, 2000. Over 200 Color & b/w Illustrations (chiefly Color photographs); Advertising Matter. First English-language Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Previous owner's rubberstamp on half-title page; else a nice, clean copy. 127 pages. "This book is about replications and their cinematic..... 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
Rediscovering French Film
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1983. 137 b/w Illustrations (chiefly Film stills). First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 220, [2] pages. Foreword by editor Bandy and Adrienne Mancia; introduction by Richard Roud; includes filmography, bibliography and index. Notable for contributions by Andre Bazin, Robert Bresson..... 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
Sarah Bernhardt : Artist and Icon
[Irvine, CA]: [Severin Wunderman Museum Publications], 1992. Over 150 b/w Illustrations; Color Pictorial Wrappers. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Slight rubbing to wrappers; else a near fine copy as issued. 171, [1] pages (including free endpapers). Survey of the personal collection of Severin Wunderman, including..... More
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Classic Tale of Terror Reborn on Film
New York: Newmarket Press, 1994. 85 color & 100 b/w illus. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG+/VG+ in DJ (sl rubbing/minor nicks to DJ). 4to with DJ 191pp. Includes the complete screenplay (by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont). Edited by Diana Landau. More