New York: Cinema 16, 1952. Original pamphlet distributed by Amos and Marcia Vogel's Cinema 16, "How to Solve the Mystery of Rashomon" (1952), an essay by novelist and film critic Parker Tyler. Few foreign language films have made such a lasting impact on American audiences as Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950), a revolutionary film in style and substance that challenged and.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Joseph Losey, with his name and home address written in holograph ink on the first leaf: "Joseph Losey / Hanover, NH / '70." Additional underlining and bracketing throughout, in the same fountain pen ink as the inscription, mostly to the opening chapters of the text. The McCarthy / HUAC.....
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Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1961. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "Pour Dominique Aury / avec toute mon amitie / Alain Robbe-Grillet." ("For Dominique Aury / with all my friendship / Alain Robbe-Grillet."). Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Text in French. Screenplay for the 1961 film, Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais, and.....
New Providence, NJ: Bowker-Saur, 1999. First Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket as issued, ex-library with attendant flaws.
London: The Alan Parker Film Company, 1982. First Edition. Octodecimo. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Judi / Love / Alan / Dec '82." The English film director's charming and self-effacing cartoon collection. Even Parker admits, in the foreword he denotes as "Apology," that he should stick to film directing. Very Good in printed black boards, with no.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. A history of stunt work in the cinema, with 10 line drawings, 38 photographs, and an index.
New York: Committee on Film and Television Resources and Services, 1975. First Edition, noted as "Not for review or quotation / Draft" on the front wrapper. A series on reports on various aspects of film culture in the United States, including "Filmmaking," "Preservation," "Distribution," "Exhibition," and "Study," complete with historical background information and recommendations. The reports were compiled at various.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Peter Bogdanovich to actress Barbra Streisand on the half-title: "8/4/71 / For my darling Barbra— / the most cooperative and considerate an actress who ever was— / [this is called 'evidence'] / My love— / Peter Bogdanovich." Streisand would appear in Bogdanovich's classic, wildly successful screwball comedy, "What's Up, Doc?".....
Berlin: Jovis Verlag / Arte Editions, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Werner Herzog on the title page. A wonderful compendium of still photographs in both color and black-and-white, taken over the years on the sets of Werner Herzog's films. With text throughout in English, French, and German by Herzog and a few others, including fellow filmmaker Volker Schlondorff and actress.....
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Budapest: Szikra Kiadas, 1948. First Hungarian Edition, preceding all others. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author in Hungarian in the year preceding publication on the first blank leaf, ending with "Budapest / 47.XII.14." A rare signature. A renaissance man in the world of early cinema, Balazs began writing film criticism, poetry, librettos, and screenplays in 1907, and died after a very.....
New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Fine in trade wrappers (softcover). Movie tie-in edition, screenplay of the movie written and directed by Thornton.
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes items for early cinema films, including appearances by Charlie Chaplin, Katharine Hepburn, Clara Bow, Mae West, and many more.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992-1998, 2000. First Edition. Nine volumes (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 1/2, 6, 7, 8, 11), from the "Projections" series of books on filmmakers and their craft. All volumes Very Good plus or better in printed wrappers, with light creases to the wrappers, and a hint of soil to the page edges. Volume 3 lacks.....
London: Self published, 1936. First Edition. Published in the wake of the highly influential "Close Up" magazine, "Film Art" kept the flame lit as an important UK literary and film periodical, a few of the editors contributing most of the material, and a handful of others filling the gaps. The magazine was not opposed to completely ignoring the general public's.....
London: Studio Vista, 1973. First Edition. Some sticker bruising to the verso of the front board, else NearFine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A look at the thriller film, from the mid-1940s onward, with over 100 illustrations.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions L'Age D'Homme, 2005. First Edition, a trade softcover original. INSCRIBED by director Alexandre Sokourov on the half title page: "Pierre Goulliard / [unknown] / Alexandre Sokourov / 2007." In 2007, Sokourov, a prolific Russian filmmaker of increasing complexity and daring, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film "Alexandra." His followup.....
New York: Stein and Day, 1981. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Very Good plus in light blue wrappers, with moderate wear and a lightly toned spine panel. Uncommon in this format.
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg on the front endpaper to his friend, film critic and academic Judith Crist: "For Judith Crist / Here's a little souvenir of those days on Foley Square / Sincerely / Budd Schulberg / Aug 12, 1955." The best Schulberg association of the 1950s we have encountered. Judith Crist was the.....
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Schulberg in the year of publication, almost certainly to a fellow Paramount house screenwriter, on the front endpaper: "For Charley / With affectionate regards / From the guy in the adjoining cell. / Budd / March 29, 1941." Regardless of whether the inscribee is Charles Brackett, Charles MacArthur, or some Charley.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket.
Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1971. First Edition. Extremities lightly rubbed, else Near Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1979. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight bump to bottom of spine panel.
Paris: Oeuvres Sociales du Cinema, 1944. First Edition. Deluxe brochure published in commemoration of the fourth year of the Comite d'Organisation de l'Industrie Cinematographique (COIC: Committee for the Organization of the Cinema Industry), an organization created by the Nazis during the first month of French occupation. The brochure contains a preface by director Marcel Pagnol, as well as five original.....
New York: Exhibitor's Trade Review, 1920. First Edition. Magazine-style format featuring biographical essays by Hastings, profusely illustrated with reproduced images from Griffith's films and newspaper articles about the director. One of the best and earliest overviews of the legendary director. 9.5 x 12 inches, printed saddle-stapled wrappers. Good lacking the dust jacket, folded horizontally, several cello tape repairs, tears, foxing.....
Louisville, KY: Touchstone, 1972. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is lightly toned and has a minute closed tear to the upper rear panel.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1984. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition, Near Fine in black and white pictorial wrappers. Moderate rubbing to the wrappers, else Fine.
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point when his writing career (if one could call it that) was on the ropes, his screenwriting career was well on its way, and his great fame as a producer was yet to begin. An unusually sharp copy, Fine in a Fine dust.....
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Zanuck in the year of publication to silent film actor Harry Fox: "To Harry Fox / If you enjoyed this effort one-tenth as much as I have often enjoyed you, I'm satisfied / Darryl Francis Zanuck / '23." A collection of lighthearted stories by Zanuck, published at a point.....
New York: A.S. Barnes, 1972. First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Secaucus,NJ: Citadel Press, 1985. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Woody Allen on the half title page: "To Pierre Goulliard / 17 July 1987 / Woody Allen." An in-depth, film-by-film exploration of the themes, characterizations, and technical aspects of Allen's career as a writer and director, up to and including "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), profusely photo illustrated throughout. From the.....
London: Phaidon Press, 2003. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.An impressive look at the film industry since 1970.
Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1921. First Edition. Includes three original illustrations: two are primarily typographic layouts, one centered around Charlie Chaplin (each is lacking the applied paste-up elements, in the case of the Chaplin image, it lacks the photographic image that was pasted on and that appears in the finished illustration), and the third and most interesting is the.....
Boston: Boston University Broadcasting and Film Division, Circa 1966. First Edition. Preface by Robert Steele (dated November 1965). Goldberg analyzes the great director's work, his filmmaking technique, and especially his philosophy in a sweeping review, including the films "Lucia del varieta" ("Variety Lights," 1950), "Lo sceicco biano" ("The White Sheik," 1952), "I Vitelloni" (1953), "La strada" ("The Road," 1954), "Il.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1939-1940 season. The annual includes a number of features on literary adaptations with large images of the books themselves, as well as a special section advertising 18 Technicolor Disney features. The annual also presents full-page spreads for directors Garson Kanin, George Stevens, Leo McCarey.....
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London: Radio Pictures Ltd., 1933. First Edition, large quarto. Deluxe annual for RKO Radio Pictures "Radio's 1933-34 British Productions." An ambitiously designed Pre-Code RKO annual, with various paper stocks and finishes, horizontal and vertical spreads, two and three page fold-outs, pop-ups, a five-page receding circular die-cut around the RKO Radio Pictures logo, and four sanguine colored conte-style portraits of Constance.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by screenwriter and musician Ray Perkins, requesting the signature of legendary film executive Jack L. Warner, and subsequently inscribed by Warner: "Dear Ray / Those are big words / From one in the print / Jack Warner of Warner Bros / June 27 1929." Very Good, lacking the.....
Paris: Le Film illustre, 1962. Original French magazine focusing on contemporary international film, actors and actresses, and persons behind the scenes, like set decorators and directors. French text throughout. Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida graces the front wrapper, and Frida Boccara on the rear wrapper. Color centerfolds were also featured, and this issue sports a full-color spread of youthful actors Martine.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First American edition, and first edition in hardcover. INSCRIBED by Truffaut on the half-title page in the year of publication: “To Laurie / Sincerely yours / Francois / 78 August 3.” Truffaut's third and final book, an absolute must for any film lover, comprised of many essays detailing his feelings on a wide variety.....
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Paris: Mercure de France, 1970. First French Edition, preceding all others. Warmly INSCRIBED by Truffaut to French cinema historian and writer Maurice Bessy on the half-title page. Bessy is best known for various associations with Orson Welles, most notably his work with the director on "Mr. Arkadin." Truffaut's second book, containing his screenplays for the first four Antoine Doinel films.....
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1978, Inc. First printing of this edition. Slightest spine roll, else about Fine and unread. Screenplay to the 1949 John Ford film.
N.p. N.p. Master copy for the 1977 novel. The story of Paul Kohner, famed agent and producer of mostly foreign films for Universal Pictures, due to his ability to speak a few European languages. This novel was written by someone who knows him very well, his own brother. Set in Hollywood. Brown titled card wrappers, noted as MASTER COPY on.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1971. First Edition. Some rubbing at the bottom board edges, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine, slightly toned dust jacket. Mellor's look into northern England's cinema industry.
Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1971. First French-language Edition, first printing. Very slight spine lean and wrappers foxing away from text (common trait due to wrapper laminate), a few leaves have notation in blue ink, else in Near Fine condition. A look at cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 1995. First Edition. Quarto. Copy belonging to contributor and director/producer Tony Bill, with a laid-in letter of thanks from the publishers, SIGNED in holograph ink by the publisher, the creative director, and authors O'Donnell and Travolta. Tony Bill's contribution comes from the point of a director, with five pages of his insight. Light foxing to the top.....
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971-1972. First Edition. Four volumes. An instructive book in which the editors present anthologies of various screenplays, detail various methods of filmmaking, uses of film scripts, different camera angles and shots and their implications throughout a script, revisions, and more. Preceding each screenplay is a detailing of their release dates, directors, screenwriters, relevant literary sources, and starring.....
New York: Cineaste, 1967. Volume One, Issue Four of the long running and influential "Cineaste" magazine. Published quarterly, "Cineaste" publishes reviews, criticism, and interviews, and continues to be published today. Early issues of the magazine are difficult to find. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled. Very Good plus, with light toning and soil.
New York: Cineaste, 1967. Volume One, Issue One of the long running and influential "Cineaste" magazine. Published quarterly, "Cineaste" publishes reviews, criticism, and interviews, and continues to be published today. Early issues of the magazine are difficult to find. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled. Very Good plus, with light toning and soil.
New York: Cineaste, 1967. Volume One, Issue Three of the long running and influential "Cineaste" magazine. Published quarterly, "Cineaste" publishes reviews, criticism, and interviews, and continues to be published today. Early issues of the magazine are difficult to find. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled. Very Good plus, with light toning and soil.
San Diego: Valcour and Krueger, 1977. First Limited Edition, stamped copy number 19 of 100 copies, in script format, prepared in advance of publication in July 1977, SIGNED and illustrated by George Clayton Johnson in blue marker on the front wrapper. Not published until 1996, as "Twilight Zone: Scripts and Stories," by Streamline Pictures. The volume includes seven short stories and.....
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Coach House Books, 2003. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page with an additional flourish: "Much love to you who must always watch your steps! / XOXOXO / Guy Maddin." Collects the filmmaker's journalism, treatments for films made and unmade, and a selection of his personal journals. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. Light shelfwear.....
New York: Warner, 1989. First Edition. Fine in Very Good plus dust jacket with shelfwear and creases across top rear panel, SIGNED by the author on a previous owner's laid-in bookplate.
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile," with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry.....
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 300 copies (this being No. 177) numbered in silver marker on the rear panel. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile," with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and.....
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Berlin: Akademie der Kunste, 1958. First Edition. Limited Edition, one of an unnumbered 1000 copies. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author: "To / Billy Kluever / with my wishes / Hans Richter 59." German-born artist Hans Richter enjoyed a long career as a painter, avant-gardist, political radical, and filmmaker, co-founding the Association of Revolutionary Artists in Zurich, and.....
Hants: Wildwood House, 1986. First Edition (published simultaneously in hardcover). Light bump to the upper right, else Fine and unread. Originally written in Switzerland in the 1930s, Richter discusses the relations between art and politics.
New York: International Publishers, 1925. First Edition. A comprehensive review of the first decade of Russian theatre under the Soviets, with sections on Left, Center, and Right leaning groups and movements. Quite scarce. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Toning to the jacket spine, flap folds, and edges, edges also with.....
Boston: Boston University Broadcasting and Film Division, 1966. Uncorrected Proof, preceding the First Edition. Preface by Robert Steele (dated 1966). Nelson analyzes the great director's work, his filmmaking technique, and especially his philosophy in a sweeping review, including the films "The Clown's Evening" ("Sawdust and Tinsel," 1953), "The Seventh Seal" (1957), "Wild Strawberries" (1957), "The Magician" (1958), "The Virgin Spring".....
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First American Edition. Tells the story of Goldcrest, the studio that made films like "Escape from New York" (1981), "Pink Floyd: The Wall" (1982), "Gandhi" (1982), "The Killing Fields" (1984), and many more. Brief silverfish damage to a few leaves, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Chipping to the extremities to the jacket, with some cello tape repair to the crown. A collection of essays on film.
New York: Billboard Books, 2000. First Edition. Ryan's film credits include "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" (1991, television series), "Kill and Kill Again" (1981), "Space Mutiny" (1988), and "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money" (1999). Indispensable for character development within the screenplay. Fading to the spine, else Near Fine and unread in printed wrappers.
New York: Praeger, 1972. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
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London: Strange Attractor Press, 2018. First Limited Edition, one of 500 non-numbered copies, as issued. With a sealed white card envelope containing a set of full-color postcards and an illustrated bookplate signed by author Stephen Thrower, with the currently unknown limitation number stamped in red at the bottom of the plate. Included with the limited edition, as called for, is.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Few spots of discoloration to front and back panels, slight bump at crown. Dust jacket has slight bumps to extremities.
Arlington: PBS, 1982. Vintage souvenir reference photograph book produced by PBS in conjunction with the 1982 television episode, an adaptation of John Cheever's 1958 short story "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill." SIGNED on the title page by director Paul Bogart and producers Ann Blumenthal and Jac Venza. The episode aired on January 12, 1982, and was the premiere of the anthology.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight bump to crown. Dust jacket has slight bump to crown, as well.
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Dallas, TX: Ivy Press, 2009. First Edition. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with gilt front and spine titles, and red ribbon marker. In publisher's same black peebled cloth covered slipcase, with gilt titles and design. One of 100 numbered copies (this being No. 77) SIGNED by the authors and Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in the 1948 Columbia Pictures film.....
Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Gregory Peck to film critic and academic Judith Crist, who provides the introduction: "For Judith / With great appreciation and warm regards / Gregory Peck." Laid in are two very interesting pieces of ephemera: a photocopy of a rave review from The Columbus Dispatch, with a holograph ink notation from.....
Milan: Editrice Il Castoro, 2005. First Edition. Il castoro cinema #218. Photo-illustrated throughout. Text in Italian. Near Fine in wrappers, with a slight bump to the crown.
London: Faber and Faber, 1998. First Edition, a paperback original. REVIEW COPY with publisher's material laid in. Fine in pictoral wrappers. Publisher's white sticker to rear wrapper panel. One of Faber's "Directors on Directors" series.
New York: The Film Society of Lincoln Center, 1974-2009. Archive of 157 issues of "Film Comment" magazine, long-running film commentary magazine. Originally released as a quarterly beginning 1962, during the New American Cinema period, with a focus on mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking, often with insight by some of the industry's leading figures. Still published to date, expanding their marketing.....
Los Angeles: Directors Guild of America, 1995. First Edition. Youngerman began his career at Paramount Studios in 1926, working as a prop man and an assistant director on several films, including "Beau Geste" (1939), "The Great Man's Lady" (1942), and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943). In 1964 he was awarded as an Honorary Life Member of the Directors Guild.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. First Edition thus, first printing. Near Fine and unread. First Christie biography, with several black-and-white photographs.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. With a publisher's "Autographed Copy" sticker to the rear flyleaf. A memoir by the four time Academy Award winning actress, extensively photo-illustrated throughout. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
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Paris: J.J. Pauvert, 1959. First French Edition, preceding all others by over 15 years. INSCRIBED by Kenneth Anger to actress Joan Whitney, "For Joan, / in souvenir of 'Pleasure Dome,' / Hollywood - and Babalon / love - Kenneth." Joan Whitney starred as Aphrodite in Anger's striking 1954 experimental short film "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome." Text in French. A legendary.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Brand New. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by author Kevin Johnson and film director Guy Maddin (who contributes the foreword). A full color, 300-page guide to the first edition film sources for the American film noir cycle between 1950 and 1965. Profusely illustrated and fanatically detailed, covering 160 films, from.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover, illustrated boards. SIGNED by the author on the title page. "The Celluloid Paper Trail: Identification and Description of Twentieth Century Film Scripts" is the first book ever published on film script identification and description. Lavishly illustrated and detailed, designed for any book scholar, including collectors, archivists, librarians, and dealers. Foreword by Tony.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Brand New. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A full color, 300-page guide to the first edition film sources for the American film noir cycle between 1950 and 1965. Profusely illustrated and fanatically detailed, covering 160 films, from the familiar to the obscure. Foreword by Canadian film director Guy.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. Brand New. Second edition, revised. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A full color, 400-page guide to the rare book sources for the American film noir cycle in the 1940s. Profusely illustrated and fanatically detailed, covering 160 films, from the familiar to the obscure. Foreword by director/screenwriter Paul Schrader. Fine and.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Adapted in part from the author's columns in "American Film" magazine. A small tear and bump to the crown, and toning to the jacket flaps, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
London: BBC Books, 1967. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED to noted production manager John Palmer on the front endpaper by contributors Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier. With a brief manuscript note from Palmer to Olivier laid in, requesting Olivier's autograph, and with a newspaper clipping regarding Richardson attached with a paper clip to page 72. From the collection of noted.....
New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. First Edition. Slight foxing at the top page edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1973. First edition, Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket spine somewhat rumpled, else an attractive copy of Maltin's encyclopedic companion to Disney's work. Profusely illustrated throughout, and one of the better-written books on the subject. Uncommon in superior condition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. A comprehensive history of American cinema up to the beginning of World War II, beginning with George Melies, the birth of the Hollywood studios, and D.W. Griffith, and ending with the dawn of the "auteur" era (Vidor, Lang, von Sternberg, Capra, Ford, etc.) A focused, factual look at cinema's first four decades. Profusely.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939. First Edition. Copy belonging to director Jacques Tourneur, with his name in holograph red pencil on the front endpaper. Published the same year as Tourneur's directorial debut, "They All Come Out." Tourneur would go on to direct 70 films over a 40 year career, including the first three horror films for legendary producer Val Lewton, "Cat.....
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Rome: La Sist, 1967. Original program for the premiere of Lina Wertmuller's 1967 play, "2+2 non fa piu' 4" ("Two and Two Are No Longer Four"), the production that essentially launched her career as a filmmaker. Wertmuller's first work was as a production assistant on Fellini's "8-1/2," followed by her first first two films. These two efforts fared poorly at.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First Edition. SIGNED by Milton Merlin in pencil (dated 1936) on the front endpaper. Merlin was a television producer and writer during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably for "The Millionaire," "I Spy," and "Bonanza," as well as the screenplay for the 1939 film, "The Kid from Texas." Very Good plus or better in a......
Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, 1952. Presumed First Edition. Preface by Jean-Louis Barrault. Text in French. A collection of photographs of the great French actor of the stage and screen, Louis Jovet. Very Good plus in card wrappers, with folding card photo-illustrated dust jacket.
Munich: Grauf Haufen and Frank Trebbin, 1993. First Edition. An utterly obsessive, minutely detailed examination of Spanish exploitation director Jess Franco's illustrious career, divided into two sections: an extensive, photo-illustrated filmography that includes analysis and reproductions of even the most obscure country-of-origin posters and advertisement for each film, and a set of interviews by Franco's contemporaries (and Franco himself), including.....
Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1948. First French Edition (and correct first). One of several limitations, this one of 180 copies issued on large paper (this being No. 166). Briefly INSCRIBED by LaPierre on the second blank, most uncommon thus. Housed in a custom quarter leather black clamshell box. A massive, systematic, and profusely photo illustrated study of world cinema up to.....
London: British Film Institute [BFI], 1993. First Edition. Light fading of the spine, else Fine and unread. Warner looks at Jean Vigo's film and discusses its themes.
London: Pavilion, 2020. First printing of this edition, revised. With no dust jacket as issued. Near Fine and unread. Lightly rubbed in a couple of spots, with tiny bumps to a few of the corners.
Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 1997. First Edition. Travis takes the mystery out of directing, broadening directing skills with script breakdown, post-production, and how to keep actors fresh. Light foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine in illustrated wrappers.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First American Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
University of Michigan: UMI Press, 1982. First Edition. Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Scarce.
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London: Faber and Faber, 1938. First Edition. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by the author: "For Roy Plomley / who knows all about desert islands / Michael Powell / 1942." The book was inscribed on the occasion of Powell's appearance on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs, where he was interviewed by Plomley, the show's founder. Michael Powell began making public.....
Los Angeles: Really Great Books, 1999. First Edition. From the co-creator of "Mr. Magoo," and screenwriter for "Gun Crazy" (1950, front for Dalton Trumbo), "Unknown World" (1951), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), and "Klansman" (1974), Millard expands on the craft of screenwriting. Fading to the top board edges, and jacket spine slightly sunned, else Fine and unread in a......
Los Angeles: Really Great Books, 1999. First Edition. From the co-creator of "Mr. Magoo," and screenwriter for "Gun Crazy" (1950, front for Dalton Trumbo), "Unknown World" (1951), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), and "Klansman" (1974), Millard expands on the craft of screenwriting. Light foxing to the jacket verso, and jacket spine and rear panel slightly sunned, else Fine and.....
London: Studio Vista Limited, 1970. First printing of this edition. Near Fine and unread. A collection of essays on "Second Wave" filmmakers, including Nagisa Oshima and Jerzy Skolimowski.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955. First Edition. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket.