[nice clean copy, minor wear at extremities; jacket spine lightly sunned, one tiny puncture tear in spine, tiny chip at upper right-hand corner of front panel, also very minor paper loss at top rear corner (at jacket flap foldover point)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To _____") and SIGNED by Alice Faye on the reverse of the dedication page. A comprehensive, film-by-film rundown of the popular star's career, in the typical "Films of" format with cast/credits, plot synopses, notes and reviews for each film, along with a healthy selection of photographs. Also includes: a 17-p... View More...
[very slight wear and minor laminate puckering along bottom edge of front cover, otherwise as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the Spanish actor/screenwriter/director (1934-2009) known as "the Spanish Lon Chaney." Excerpts from the cover blurb: "There has never been a filmmaker like Paul Naschy. Naschy's involvement in cinema spans 40 years and counting, with work as an actor, screenwriter, director and producer. If we just speak of the horror genre, Paul Naschy is a distinctive talent. Perhaps one shouldn't step on the carefully protected toes of the familiar horror 'kings... View More...
[nice clean copy, light wear extremities; jacket rubbed, spine and front panel somewhat faded, a couple of tiny edge tears]. SIGNED by the author, with a brief inscription (and his phone number), on the front pastedown. "Growing up in the Bronx in the thirties and early forties, [the author] went to the movies almost every single weekend, developing a lifelong affection for even the most obscure productions of the period. [His book], a wide-ranging collection of memories and meditations, is testimony to that affection. It is both a vivid reconstruction of the impact of these movies on a ten-y... View More...
(oversize stapled wraps, 17" x 11") [a bit curled along spine, some bending/dog-earing at corners of front cover, overall quite clean except for a small stain on pp. 86-87 which has bled through a bit to several adjacent pages; staples are holding firmly]. Tribute publication issued by the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, to commemorate the lifetime achievement award presented to the great Brazilian film director at the festival held July 19-28, 2002. Its 96 large-format pages (including covers) contain an enormous amount of information about dos Santos' films and care... View More...
[nice tight copy, just a touch of soiling to top of text block; jacket spine very slightly faded, no other discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For ______: / Hope we can get / together for an interview - / Best / Ron Offen." Described in the jacket blurb as "the first [biography] ever attempted of Marlon Brando, this book was issued just after THE GODFATHER had brought the actor back to the top of the movie-star heap, but before the release of LAST TANGO IN PARIS (which is discussed only briefly in the text, with the author opining th... View More...
[nice tight clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows just a tiny bit of rubbing to the lower extremities and the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For ______: / Listen you dirty / rat, where the / hell is your / ape-suit. / Best - / Ron." This first book-length biography of the tough-guy actor (who was also an accomplished song-and-dance man), who had retired from the screen a decade earlier, beat Cagney's own memoir to the bookstalls by about four years. Signed by Author View More...
[nice tight book, minor soiling to bottom of text block, otherwise as-new with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "This study of Buster Keatons nineteen silent short films shot between 1920 and 1923 provides the first book-length examination of the independent silent short films of one of the acknowledged kings of comedy." The author "reconstructs each of these rarely seen films [not among the people I hang out with!] in such a way as to enable the reader to 'watch' Keaton's performance, devoting a separate chapter to each. She analyzes each film's strengths to plumb the depths... View More...
[very nice book, no discernible wear; jacket shows only light scuffing and minor surface wear]. (B&W and color photographs, musical facsimiles) A brief biography of the great film composer, coupled with a critical survey of his most important scores. Includes a list of Tiomkin's principal awards and honors, and a complete filmography (titles only). View More...
[nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (Conversations with Filmmakers) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) A compilation of 33 published interviews with the great American film director, culled from numerous sources, ranging in date from 1920 to 1973, and including several French interviews translated into English for the first time. Chronology; filmography; index. View More...
[very nice clean copy, essentially as-new, with just the slightest trace of handling wear; the author's name and address is hi-lited on the copyright page]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED to and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author was one of those erstwhile character actors who populated films (many of them westerns) during Hollywood's golden years, appearing in hundreds of movies, TV shows and commercials during a career that stretched from 1935 to 1966. Although pitched as his autobiography, the first few chapters also contain a significant amount of information on hi... View More...
(no dust jacket) [heavily worn, especially on bottom edge and along spine, with some deterioration of the binding along the bottom inch and a half of the front joint; the binding is solid, however, and the book is internally quite clean]. (B&W photographs) An examination of the Rudolph Valentino cult about a decade after his death, by an author who witnessed its growth first-hand, as custodian of the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (today known as "Hollywood Forever"), a position he assumed the year following Valentino's interment and held until 1940. "... View More...
[a good sound copy, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine, signature and rubber-stamped name of one-time owner (screenwriter Richard Collins) on ffep; jacket is lightly soiled, short closed tear at bottom front flap-fold, tiny chip at base of spine, about 1/4" paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) An examination of the Rudolph Valentino cult about a decade after his death, by an author who witnessed its growth first-hand, as custodian of the Cathedral Mausoleum at the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery (today known as Hollywood Forever), a position he assumed the year following ... View More...
(price-clipped) [tiny bump to top front corner, no other significant wear; jacket shows slight wear at extremities, has a couple of small internal tape repairs at spine ends]. The story of the last days of the great French actor Grard Philipe (so memorable in Rene Clair's 'La Beaut du diable' and other films), told by his widow after his death from liver cancer at the age of 36. "This is not so much the story of a death as it is the story of a great love. It is told with pride and courage, with great sincerity and integrity." View More...
(price-clipped) [a clean, attractive copy, with just a touch of wear to both book and jacket]. (The Hollywood Professionals, Volume 7) Series (B&W photographs) Critical discussions and filmographies on two major American film directors. The final entry in this series, it follows the pattern of combining one much-scrutinized and biographied director with another who remains rather overlooked -- there are several dozen books about Wilder, while it would be another 25 years after this before the appearance of another book about McCarey, and to my knowledge there are still just the two (at least ... View More...
(pictorial cover, identical to dust jacket) [nice copy, extremely light bumping to lower corners, original owner's signature and date of purchase (in erasable pencil) on front pastedown, tiny bookstore rubber-stamp on ffep; jacket is bright, clean and unworn]. (B&W photographs) Autobiographical book by the noted actor and art collector, written for juvenile readers. View More...
[top corners slightly bumped, a little fading along top and bottom edges of boards, light foxing to fore-edge, spine just a bit turned, clipped magazine review of the book affixed to ffep, pp.74-75 are severely discolored from a long-gone laid-in newspaper clipping; jacket a bit dog-eared at top of spine, a couple of small nicks at top and bottom of front panel, short closed tear at top front hinge + associated diagonal creasing at top of front panel, wrinkling/creasing along at bottom of rear panel]. INSCRIBED ("To Marilyn & / Nathan my / favorite / restauranteurs / Wherever you / are... View More...
[minimal shelfwear, slight bump to bottom rear corner, very light foxing to top edge, one-time owner's rubber-stamped signature on ffep; jacket shows light wear and minor wrinkling at extremities]. (B&W photographs) A film-by-film chronicle of the career of this most polished of screen actors, who became a star in the late silent era and transitioned smoothly to talkies -- one might even say transcended, when you take into account that wonderful voice. The usual: cast, credits and synopses for all his films, plus an introductory biographical essay and a portrait gallery. View More...
[nice tight copy with no significant wear, one-time owner's name in red ink at upper left corner of front endpaper, a single sentence in the Foreword underlined in green ink, a touch of age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket is lightly rubbed with just minor wear and a couple of tiny tears along the top edge, a couple more short closed tears and an associated horizontal crease at the bottom of the rear panel, and a bit of wear at the spine ends]. (B&W photographs) The first McQueen book to appear after the actor's death in 1980, this religiously-inflected book tells "with complete cand... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (Popular Culture Bio-Bibliographies) Series (B&W photographs) An excellent reference resource for the life and career of the great comic filmmaker. Contents: Biography; The Art of Buster Keaton; Interviews; Bibliographical Essay; Bibliographical Checklist of Buster Keaton Sources; Filmography; Chronological Biography. Although now dated in light of the large amount of additional Keaton scholarship since the book was published, it's still valuable for its excellent filmography, and especially for the "Bibliographi... View More...
[nice clean book, no significant wear, slight age-toning to edges of text block; jacket also very nice, just a touch of surface rubbing (mostly to rear panel)]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author View More...
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