Marx Brothers: "Monkey Business" and "Duck Soup" (Classic film scripts)
London: Lorrimer, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 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
Agee on Film Volume Two: Five Film Scripts
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. Ungerer, Tomi (illustrator); 15 b/w Photographs / Plates (including Film stills); b/w Drawings (headpieces). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good hardcover first edition in jacket (minor wear). 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
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
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
Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community
Chicago Review Press, 2014. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A clean tight copy. 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
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen
Univ Pr of Kentucky, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Goood used hardcover in very good jacket (text has some minor ink marking). 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
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
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