[lovely clean copy (except for author inscription), with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "An investigation into the ways in which specific films influenced and reflected the Americanization of the Holocaust, and how film has helped to disseminate the event into the popular consciousness." Among the films discussed in depth are Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (to which an entire chapter is devoted), CABARET, JULIA, THE PAWNBROKER and the TV miniseries HOLOCAUST. Notes; bibliography; ... View More...
[minimal shelfwear to bottom edge, otherwise a nice clean tight copy; jacket a little edgeworn, small hole in rear panel, an even smaller hole at the rear hinge, light browning to spine]. Donleavy's play, based on his novel, which was a big hit in London but was critically savaged when in played in Dublin, thus occasioning the author's introductory account how badly things had gone. (The introduction is subtitled "An account of the closing of The Ginger Man in Dublin.") Some choice quotes from the Dublin reviews, which Donleavy rather gleefully reproduces in their entirety: "a sordid and re... View More...
[light spotting and minor creasing to front cover]. Trade PB (B&W comic book reproductions) The classic Marxist interpretation of the comic books put out worldwide under the Disney brand, with a particular focus on the money-grubbing adventures of Uncle Scrooge, "the World's Richest Duck." Originally published in Chile in 1971, it was "banned and burned" as soon as the government of Salvador Allende was toppled in 1973. A randomly-sampled couple of observations from the text: (1) "The world of Disney is a nineteenth century orphanage. With this difference: there is no outside, and the orphan... View More...
[nice clean lightly-worn copy with mild age-toning to covers, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of rear cover]. (L'Herne-Cinema, No. 1) Series (B&W photographs) French-language monograph on Hitchcock and his work, primarily concentrated on VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, PSYCHO, and THE BIRDS. View More...
[nice tight clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket is a bit scuffed on the rear panel]. INSCRIBED briefly ("To _____") and SIGNED by the legendary actor/author on the title page. The first of the actor's three novels -- a Hollywood novel, sort of, about a successful director who's "living a lie" because "his true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp." Signed by Author View More...
[nice tight copy with no discernible wear, appears unread; jacket is very nice, with just a touch of surface rubbing and a short (1/2") scrape mark across the front hinge]. INSCRIBED briefly and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For _____ / Kirk Douglas / '92." The actor-turned-novelist channels his inner Harold Robbins to tell "an enthralling tale of romance, passion and suspense that sweeps the reader across two continents," about an unlikely romance between "an orphaned American heiress, unsure about her future and her enormous fortune" and "a rising star of the Portuguese bullring... View More...
[minimal shelfwear to book, light age-toning to edges of text block; jacket slighly dog-eared at top of spine, a touch of scuffing to the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To _____") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Most autobiographies by movie stars are ghost-written and bland. This one is neither. In his powerful, angry and passionate book, Kirk Douglas tells the story of his life, in his own words, holding back nothing." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will apply for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priority Mail serv... View More...
(vellum-covered boards with yapped edges; no dust jacket) [spine and covers age-toned, some damage to both ends of spine (worse at base) and to upper right corner of front cover where yapped edge over-extends the underlying board; vintage bookseller's label (Wakefield Bookshop, 509 Madison Ave., New York City) on rear pastedown]. (pen and ink decorations) Naughty stuff, early 1930s-style. "There have been printed seven hundred and eighty copies of Paneros of which seven hundred and fifty are for sale. This is number 185 [the numeral written in by hand]." Helpfully indexed, in case you want ... View More...
[tiny dent in top edge of front cover, slight fading to cloth along bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear; jacket shows just a trace of surface wear, with a tiny faint stain near the upper left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED (in a lovely calligraphic hand) and SIGNED by the author (and another) on the front endpaper, thus: "for Steve - Eydie / Merry Christmas / 1993 / from / Frank Military / and / David Douglas Duncan." The renowned photographer tells the story, in photos and text, of his beloved German shepherd, chronicling "with respect and affectio... View More...
[light wear to edges and extremities, some wrinkling to covers]. (B&W and color photographs) 12-page compendium of tips and tricks for the amateur movie-maker. Includes: an account of how Mrs. R.F. Hamilton of Portland, Oregon ("fast becoming Portland's semi-official color biographer!"), shot the wedding of a socially prominent couple (in Kodachrome, natch); tips on the usage of various telephoto lenses; suggestions about how to go about filming the attractions at the 1940 Golden Gate Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island; techniques for shooting high-divers against a background of b... View More...
[ex-rental library book, with all the usual depredations: the book itself is good and sound, but worn and soiled; the jacket is similarly worn and soiled, backed with brown paper, firmly affixed to the book at the pastedowns, and reinforced with strips of ugly black tape across the top and bottom ends of the spine; the front endpapers are stamped several times with "POPULAR FICTION LIBRARY," but with no location specified]. Mystery novel set in a hospital. Per Hubin, the doctor-author wrote eight such medically-themed whodunits between 1935 and 1948, most of which featured the character Victo... View More...
[a nice clean tight copy, with the tiniest bit of shelfwear; the jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears and tiny chips, a little paper loss at spine extremities and along front flap-fold]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Jack [Benjamin] / who discovered[?] Cartaphilus / and / who now must find / himself for he is / worthy of it -- / Affectionately, / Paul / May, 1933." A volume of short stories by this prolific author, many set in Paris, that (per the jacket blurb) demonstrate "his brotherhood to the Gallic tradition in literature." Eldridge did indeed hav... View More...
(no dust jacket) [covers heavily edgeworn, especially along spine; hinges a little weak, binding still intact, but frontispiece photo is starting to pull loose]. (B&W photographic plates) Advice for would-be film artists (mostly actors), from the most famous husband-and-wife screenwriting team of their day (although by all accounts Miss Loos brought a lot more talent to the partnership; as she herself later put it, "what a terrible let down it [was] to find out that I was smarter than he was"). This was actually the second book they co-authored, following "How to Write Photoplays," published ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, moderate bumping to top rear corner, spine very slightly turned, some old tape shadows on front endpapers, a few small scuff marks on front cover]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author at the top of the ffep: "Sycamore House, Los Angeles, Dec. 8, 1945 / To _____ & _____ / affectionately / Guy Endore." Psychological mystery/suspense novel about "a lost soul, a woman bedevilled by her other, evil, self" (i.e. a distaff Jekyll & Hyde yarn). Basis for the 1949 Otto Preminger film noir WHIRLPOOL, starring Gene Tierney and Richard Conte. Signed by... View More...
[a nice clean as-new copy]. (Contemporary Film and Television Series) Series Trade PB From the Introduction: "This book offers an extended analysis of King Kong, one of the best-known characters ever produced by the Hollywood cinema, and a figure repeatedly activated in art and mass culture, both in the United States and abroad." As such, only Chapter 1 deals with the production and initial release of the original 1933 film; the nature of the rest of the book can easily be gleaned from the chapter titles. Chapter 2: "Camera Adventure, Dangerous Contact: Documentaries and Genre Traditions be... View More...
[a nice copy, the only blemish being a tiny black scuff mark on bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows only light handling wear]. Juvenile fiction with an African-American theme. "Ella and her great-uncle Buddy are movie fanatics, so Ella is naturally overcome with curiosity when her uncle receives a mysterious trunk from a famous black film actress -- especially when it turns out that the trunk is full of dusty old film reels. But Uncle Buddy won't let Ella look at them or even talk to her about how he knew Ella DuChamps, the film actress after whom Ella is named. Desperate to know the ... View More...
[a nice clean tight copy, with just modest wear to the extremities of both the book and the dust jacket]. (B&W photographs) A major general history of the American silent film, by one of the most eminent experts in the field. Everson wrote many books and scads of articles on film history, but I think it's fair to consider this book his magnum opus, and to regard its inclusion in the noted bibliography "100 Books on Hollywood and the Movies" as entirely appropriate. As stated in the jacket blurb, the author combined "a film enthusiast's passion and a scholar's dedication and erudition" in ad... View More...
[a bit of wear along spine, light bumping to fore-corners]. (B&W photographs, line drawings, area map) "This survey includes all the West End public cinemas past the novelty stage of the early years of the [20th] century (Hale's Tours of the World shops, etc.) and features theatres and music halls permanently converted to films." Contains mini-histories of over 100 movie houses, listed chronologically by their opening dates; grouped alphabetically under town names; iIllustrated with numerous photographs. (There is a more up-to-date version of this book, issued in 2014, which is available fro... View More...
[a bit of wear along spine (with slight splitting there at a few points, although the cover is still firmly attached at the staples), short diagonal crease at upper right corner of front cover, much shorter diagonal crease at lower right corner]. (B&W photographs, line drawings, area map) "In this volume we salute all the cinemas, past and present, of Hertfordshire, including those in Barnet (now part of Greater London) and Potters Bar (formerly Middlesex). We are dealing with cinema buildings, and therefore we exclude public halls and civic centres where films were only an occasional featur... View More...
[faint soiling to front cover, slight curling along right-hand edge]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) In this issue: an article, "Television in the Cinema," by T.A. Thompson, examining various ways in which television presentations were exhibited in British cinemas; articles about two cinemas, the Atherley Southampton and the Hippodrome Blackpool (the latter by Gordon Coombes, who was associated with the house intermittently in a management capacity from 1938 until the early 1980s). View More...
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