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By: Downing, David, and Gary Herman
Price: $8.00
Publisher: London, Omnibus Press: (c.1977)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9410
[nice clean copy, minor edgewear; binding possibly just beginning to split about 2/3 through the book (no loose pages, though)]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A critical appraisal of the world's top box office star and his films"; one of the earliest books to take Clint seriously as a director. Little did we know that there was a Major American Filmmaker a-bornin'! View more info
![Image for The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/20615.jpg "The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper [*SIGNED*]")
By: Dunne, Dominick
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: (c.1999)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 20615
[book is flawless; jacket has only a trace of surface wear, extremely minor crimping along top edge; the jacket also bears a small "Signed at Book Soup" sticker on the front panel, removable upon request without a trace]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. A fascinating look at the private lives of jet-setting celebrities of a certain time and place (mostly Beverly Hills and Hollywood), by an author who made a pretty decent career for him... View more info
![Image for The Other Side of Oz [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/16920.jpg "The Other Side of Oz [*SIGNED*]")
By: Ebsen, Buddy; edited by Stephen Cox
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Newport Beach CA, Donovan Publishing: (c.1993)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16920
[a tight, crisp, as-new copy]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page: "To ________ -- / With many thanks / Buddy & Dorothy Ebsen" (in Buddy's hand). Autobiography of the erstwhile song-and-dance man, sidekick and comic foil, who was a little bit too gangly and goofy-looking to ever achieve major stardom, but is nonetheless etched forever in memory (well, my memory, anyway) as "Uncle Jed" on "The Beverly Hillbillies." Quite a ... View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Madison/Teaneck NJ/London, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / Associated University Presses: (c.1997)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14865
[nice clean book, no discernible wear; jacket shows minor wrinkling along top edge, faint surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs) "That immigrant Jews had a profound impact on the growth of American cinema is well known and has been the subject of much scholarship. But America's first Jewish movie mogul, Siegmund Lubin of Philadelphia, has never been closely studied. Drawing upon contemporary accounts and interviews with Lubin's surviving family, friends, and em... View more info
By: Edmonds, Andy
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1989)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15746
[nice clean copy, just the slightest shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows extremely light browning/discoloration to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Purports to "finger the killer" responsible for the 1935 murder of popular screen comedienne Thelma Todd; thoroughly researched, yet written more like a crime novel (including lots of speculative dialogue) than a scholarly work. (I'm not sayin' that's a bad thing.) Includes a complete list of Todd's films. View more info
By: Fernstrom, Russell and Beverly
Price: $10.00
Publisher: [Raleigh NC], Pentland Press, Inc.: (c.1997)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9564
[nice tight clean copy, bottom front corner lightly bumped (book and jacket both), otherwise as new; jacket also shows minor surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Biography of a newsreel cameraman whose "career spanned what was one of the most exciting periods in the development of news gathering and documentary movie-making. A pioneer in his field, Fernstrom explored innovative techniques such as filming World War II battles and a Grand Canyon documentary from an aerial... View more info
![Image for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle [cover title: Fatty]](/assets/images/product/17062.jpg "Roscoe \"Fatty\" Arbuckle [cover title: Fatty]")
By: Fine, Gerald
Price: $35.00
Publisher: [n.p.], [No Publisher Stated]: (c.1971)
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 17062
[light wear at corners and along spine, minor creasing to rear cover]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) Though described as a "novel" on the front cover (and while certainly indulging in plenty of novelistic invention of dialogue, etc.), this paperback original can lay claim to being the first serious book-length examination of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's infamous 1921 rape-murder trial, pre-dating David Yallop's excellent "The Day the Laughter Stopped&... View more info
By: Garcia, Roger, ed.; documentation by Howard Prouty
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Locarno/London, Éditions du Festival international du film de Locarno, in collaboration with the British Film Institute / Éditions Yellow Now: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19012
[essentially as new, with very light surface wear to covers, miniscule bumping at spine ends]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, drawings) The first major work on the life and career of this somewhat under-appreciated (except in France) film director, a former cartoonist, animator and comedy gag man who moved into live-action features in the late 1940s, becoming "a major transitional figure, the link between the screwball comedies of Hawks and Sturges, and the modern comedy... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1972 (c.1971)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 22857
[nice tight clean copy, slight bump to bottom rear corner but no other significant wear; jacket just a tiny bit rubbed on the rear panelwith just a trace of shelfwear to bottom edge; similar very minor edgewear to jacket]. (B&W photographs) Engaging, thematically-organized (rather than film-by-film) examination of the work of one of American cinema's true originals. "This book is a labour of love," says the author in his introduction, "a love born in the dark... View more info
By: Genini, Ronald
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc.: (c.1996)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17059
(no dust jacket, as issued) [very light foxing to top edge, slight bumping to top corners]. (B&W photographs) Biography of a "nice Jewish girl from Cincinnati" who achieved screen notoriety as Theda Bara, the quintessential vampire (not the kind that bites your neck) of her day -- despite the fact that, in the author's words, "her films were trite, often poorly acted, extravagant and crude." (So when has THAT been any impediment to movie stardom?) View more info
By: Glover, Guy
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Montreal, National Film Board of Canada: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22410
(OS stapled wraps, 11"x15") [a nice clean copy, with faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs, graphics) Large-format booklet (32 pages, plus covers) presenting a brief biography of the innovative Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren, plus an illustrated survey of his work, much of which was done under the auspices of the National Film Board of Canada. Includes a filmography, in the form of an alphabetical title index. [NOTE regarding the scanned image:... View more info
By: Goodman, Ezra
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart Inc.: (c.1965)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13592
[nice tight clean copy, light fading at edges of boards, light bumping at top edge of rear cover; jacket shows light wear at extremities, one tiny closed tear at top of rear panel]. Biography of Humphrey Bogart. View more info
![Image for Starring Fred Astaire [*SIGNED* by Astaire]](/assets/images/product/17711.jpg "Starring Fred Astaire [*SIGNED* by Astaire]")
By: Green, Stanley, and Burt Goldblatt
Price: $300.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: (c.1973)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17711
(price-clipped) [a very nice copy, tight and clean, with just the barest trace of wear at a couple of corners; the jacket has a number of surface scratch-lines on the rear panel, as though someone used it as a clipboard for a few minutes]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by Fred Astaire on the half-title page. Comprehensive examination of the career of the great dancer/singer/actor, including a discussion of his stage career, a film-by-film rundown of his films from DANCING L... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, British Film Institute: [1951]
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11825
[some scuffing to rear cover along spine, moderate edgewear; stapled binding secure]. (New Index Series) Series (B&W photographs) 38-page monograph on the noted American film director, the first publication (I believe) that was devoted exclusively to his work. Contains a film-by-film discussion of his career, with basic filmographic data for each film, through RIDING HIGH (1950). Also includes "Capra and the Directors' Guild," quoting a letter sent by the dire... View more info
By: Grove, David
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Albany GA, BearManor Media: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18030
[generally a nice clean copy, very slight dog-earing to corners of front cover, minor scrunching to bottom corners of a few pages in the middle of the book]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Billed as a "comprehensive biography" of Curtis, but actually just an in-depth (and I mean really in-depth) examination of a relatively small part of her career, i.e. her three-year reign (if that's the right word) as "the ultimate scream queen" in a string of six low-budg... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: (c.1972)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20393
[light shelfwear, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket is in nice shape, with the unfortunate exception of some clumsily-executed tape repairs to two one-inch tears (at bottom front hinge and bottom edge of front panel)]. (B&W photographs) Biography of the actress whose very real talents, especially as a comedienne, have been overshadowed by her real-life role as mistress/companion to William Randolph Hearst. View more info
![Image for Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/21080.jpg "Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Granada Publishing Limited: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 21080
(price-clipped) [very nice copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket shows a little surface-scratching on the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the ffep, with an additional (non-authorial) gift inscription at the bottom of the page. Memoir by "the man behind the encyclopaedias" (The Filmgoer's Companion, Halliwell's Film Guide, etc.) of his movie-centric life from childhood through his early career. "The book provides also a remarkable... View more info
By: Hardy, Phil
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Praeger: 1970
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 9236
[nice clean copy, tiny red ink mark (not a remainder mark, I don't think) on bottom edge; jacket has minor edgewear, one small tear at top rear hinge]. (B&W photographs) A thematically-organized look at the work of this most singular of filmmakers; the first of two books about Fuller that appeared in the early 1970's (the other was by Nicholas Garnham), and still an excellent introduction to his films. View more info
By: Hardy, Phil, ed.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [Edinburgh], Edinburgh Film Festival: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21973
[nice tight clean copy, slight rubbing and edgewear to rear cover, text clean; binding fully intact, not always the case with this series]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Collection of essays on the work of the American director. Contents: an extensive interview with Walsh, conducted in Paris in 1972; three essays, "Walsh and Warner Brothers" by Edward Buscombe, "The Fugitive Subject" by Paul Willemen, and "The Place of Women in the Cinema of Raoul Wals... View more info
![Image for Film Fantasy Scrapbook [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/20730.jpg "Film Fantasy Scrapbook [*SIGNED*]")
By: Harryhausen, Ray
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Titan Books: 1989 (c.1972)
Edition: First Edition Thus
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 20730
[a little wear along edges and at cover hinges adjacent to spine]. Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) SIGNED by Harryhausen on the half-title page (which is also the front endpaper). Autobiographical career survey of Harryhausen's work, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings from his own collection. The original edition was published by A.S. Barnes in 1972, an updated printing was issued in 1974 to include THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1974), and yet ano... View more info
