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Running time: films of the Cold WarSayre, Nora
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Running time: films of the Cold War


Sayre, Nora

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469520


Price: $13.00 

 

Scandinavian Film


Hardy, Forsyth

Hardcover. London UK, The Falcon Press, 1st UK, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 62 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photo-illustrated history of seminal Scandinavian films. Heavy rubbing, fading, and edgewear to dust jacket. Tape repair to dust jacket top edges and spine. Moisture damage to prelim pages. Fading and age toning to prelim pages as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 4450071


Price: $19.00 

Scary Screen, The: Media Anxiety in The RingN/A
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Scary Screen, The: Media Anxiety in The Ring


N/A

Hardcover. London, Ashgate, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Silver gilt on spine.

Record # 470131


Price: $75.00 

 

Scorsese Connection, The


Stern , Lesley

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated with b&w photographs. 257 pages.

Record # 803525


Price: $10.00 

 

Silent Picture - Issue Number 18


Silent Picture

Softcover. Cincinnati, First Media Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Features: George Pearson, Thus Speaks Woman, Olga Petrova, Donald Calthrop, The Third Degree, Just Pals, and More. Small stains on bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611469


Price: $25.00 

 

Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies


Spoto, Donald

Hardcover. US, Crown Archetype, 1st, 2008-10-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464429


Price: $19.00 

 

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography


LoBrutto, Vincent

Softcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 579 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean. Great copy. Perfect for the Kubrick enthusiast.

Record # 31522


Price: $25.00 

 

Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography


Beckman (Editors), Karen and Jean Ma

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, paperback. An exploration of the nature of photography and cinema both before and after the advent of digital media. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952125


Price: $25.00 

 

Story of Cinema, The - Vol. One: From the Beginnings to Gone With the Wind.


Shipman, David

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 522 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some foxing to top edge, end papers and paste downs. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 57846


Price: $40.00 

Sunday bloody Sunday: the original screenplay of the John Schlesinger film: with "Making Sunday bloody Sunday"Gilliatt, Penelope
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Sunday bloody Sunday: the original screenplay of the John Schlesinger film: with "Making Sunday bloody Sunday"


Gilliatt, Penelope

Hardcover . New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 151 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469351


Price: $15.00 

 

Syntheses - Revue Mensuelle Internationale - Le Cinema, oeil et langage - 2 Annee - No. 2 - 1947


Stadtsbaeder, Jean/Syntheses

Softcover. Bruxelles, Syntheses, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Softcover. FRENCH TEXT. Features: Charles Spaak, Marc Soriano, Georges Sadoul, Dilys Powell, Raoul Ploquin, Jacques Borel, Charles Dekeukeleire, Denis Marion, Leon Degand, Bruno L. Richmond, F. M. Tavera, Marc Varenne, Nelly Cormeau, Drogman. Toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 611492


Price: $50.00 

 

Talkies, The: American Cinema's Transition to Sound 1926-1931 (History of the American Cinema, Volume 4)


Crafton, Donald, Charles Harpole (Ed.)

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st paperback, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 639 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. A little bit of spotting (soil) to edges, pages clean. Binding tight. No rips or tears. In great shape. In-depth look at sound design in selected films, filmmaking practices, censorship, issues of race, and the furious debate over cinema aestetics that erupted once the movies began to speak.

Record # 31671


Price: $38.00 

 

Tara Treasury, The - A Pictorial History of Gone With the Wind


Gardner, Gerald and Harriet Modell

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Arlington House, Book Club, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Collection of black & white photos of all things GWTW. 192 pages.

Record # 63668


Price: $38.00 

 

Techniques of Television Production


Bretz, Rudy

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 474 pages, many b&w illustrations, photographs. Great reference for the early days of TV broadcasting. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, spine slanted, otherwise very good. In a worn, chipped dust jacket.

Record # 403157


Price: $18.00 

 

The International Film Poster - The Role of the Poster in Cinema Art, Advertising and History


Edwards, Gregory J.

Paperback. New Hampshire, Salem House, 1st wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations ,224 pages. Paperback.

Record # 201262


Price: $20.00 

 

Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of Fear.


Buruma, Ian

Hardcover. New York, New York Review Book, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 423 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Extremely clean and bright inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good condition.

Record # 30660


Price: $15.00 

 

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films


Bogle, Donald

Hardcover. New York , Viking Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket with creases to both front and rear flap. Internally very good.

Record # 855985


Price: $38.00 

 

Visonary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000


Sitney, P. Adams

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd revised, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 462 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent. Binding tight, pages and edges clean. Beautiful copy, looks barely read. "This book has remained the standard text on American Avant-garde film since the publication of its first edition in 1974."

Record # 31521


Price: $25.00 

Von - The Life and Films of Erich Von Stroheim: Revised and Expanded EditionKoszarski, Richard
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Von - The Life and Films of Erich Von Stroheim: Revised and Expanded Edition


Koszarski, Richard

softcover. New York, Limelight Editions, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear to wrappers. Small corner crease on top fore edge. Publisher's review card laid in.

Record # 468799


Price: $19.00 

 

Von Stroheim


Curtiss, Thomas Quinn

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 357 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age tanning, a little chipping and a tear (1") with tape repair at spine. Cover boards bound with brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Other than a touch of age tanning pages and edges are in excellent shape. Some light (erasable) penciling. In very good condition for its age. Replacing legend with truth, Thomas Quinn Curtiss, drama critic of the Paris Herald Tribune and a long-time friend of Von Stroheim, tells the complete story of this great director's tragic career, life and work for the first time.

Record # 31554


Price: $15.00 

 

Walt Disney Magic Moments


Disney, Walt, Illust. by: Walt Disney

Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Color illustrations from early animated shorts by the Disney Studio. Scarce.

Record # 206225


Price: $38.00 

 

Western Films of John Ford, The


Place, J. A.

Hardcover. Secaucus, Citadel Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612460


Price: $25.00 

 

Westerns, The: From Silents to Cinerama


Fenin, George N. & William K. Everson

Hardcover. New York , The Orion Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear and rubbing to pictorial dust jacket protected in a clear mylar cover. Light fraying to top edge of green cloth boards. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 809788


Price: $20.00 

 

When Hollywood Had A King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence


Bruck, Connie

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the front flap: "In When Hollywood Had A King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry--businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman.

Record # 30500


Price: $19.00 


  
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