[tiny surface-scar near upper left corner of front cover, minor edgewear to covers, soft diagonal creasing at bottom corners of both front and rear covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by both Arlene Alda and Alan Alda on a label affixed to the half-title page. A photographic essay of the production of the 1980 film THE FOUR SEASONS, written and directed by Alan Alda, which starred Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston, Bess Armstrong, and himself. The text and photos are by Alda's wife Arlene, "who brilliantly captures the intensity of feelings these profe... View More...
[a good sound book, minor bump to lower rear corner, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is heavily edgeworn, long vertical crease in spine, tears at spine extremities, a bit of paper loss at top right corner of rear panel]. "Women's fiction" with a vengeance, depicting a day in the life of a 35-year-old matron: "A sick servant, an unworldly husband, a querulous, rich uncle, the incessant demands of her children, the funeral of a friend, the importunities of a would-be lover -- these are some of the things that Mary Strong must deal with between bed and bed." (A good thing her nam... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light dust-soiling to top of text block, spine a little darkened]. (pen and ink drawings) A novel themed around the post-slavery migration of African-Americans from the South to the North, focusing on a group of "plantation Negroes" whose way of life is upended when the precarious financial situation of their home plantation eventually leads to its sale. From the New York Times review: "The Negroes are torn between their loyalty to their feudal lord, their love of the slow-going ways of life on the plantation, and the inducements held out to them by friend... View More...
[very nice clean copy, with no discernible wear to book; jacket lightly scuffed on rear panel]. (Film and Culture) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles) This book "reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive original research and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories of this period in film and reveals the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema. Beginning with sound practices before cinema's first decade and continuing through to the more familiar sound pr... View More...
[minimal wear to book; jacket slightly chipped at top of spine, small closed tear at upper corner of rear panel, otherwise clean and attractive]. Comic novel about a Lincolnshire native who "since infancy has dedicated himself exclusively to studying English village life, which, he maintains, is completely misrepresented in our current country literature. The rural scene, he avers, is not a cosy paradise inhabited by whimsical squires and philosophical craftsmen; it is characterised, rather, by brutal rapacity, sly animal cunning and orchidaceous vice." View More...
[nice tight clean copy, minimal shelfwear, previous owner's signature on ffep; jacket faded along spine, one tiny nick and some associated short creasing at top of front panel, short diagonal crease at top corner of front flap]. This book "concentrates on the major areas of debate rather than on individual figures" in the sometimes arcane regions of film theory. The author, touted as "a master at making the world of film theory accessible to a largely mystified [and, one might also say, largely uninterested] public," here "provides lucid explanations of theories which involve perceptual psyc... View More...
[a teensy bit of foxing on top edge of text block, otherwise a clean solid copy with no significant wear; jacket shows light surface wear only]. (pen and ink drawings) Two short novels about two very different black women, by the gifted African-American author of "Appalachee Red," who committed suicide in the early 90's. View More...
[moderate wear to lower extremities, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket has a few tiny edge-tears and some consequent dog-earing along top edge, small closed tear at bottom of front panel]. (The Film Classics Library) Series (B&W film frame blowups) One of a series of books that rendered classic films into book form, by means of thousands of frame blow-ups; as the cover blurb has it, "the most accurate and complete reconstruction of a film in book form [with] over 2,100 frame blow-up photos shown sequentially and coupled with all the original dialogue frames from the film." In some wacky wa... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn copy, with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers, some wear at spine ends, modest bumping at all corners, some discoloration in gutters]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer[?] / With kindest regards / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan / Santa Ana, Jan. 4, 1944." One of the odder novels you'll ever run across -- as one contemporary reviewer described it, "a singularly unclassifiable mixture of whimsey, dullness, vulgarity and illuminating thought." It's kind of a fantasy-satire in which the title cha... View More...
[moderat shelfwear to book, a handful of tiny dents in bottom edges of covers, light staining (foxing?) along bottom edge of front cover; jacket lightly soiled (mostly on rear panel), a bit of wear along top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) Kind of an Arbus Greatest Hits volume, containing many of her most famous and haunting photographs. It was issued in conjunction with the first major retrospective of her work, mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in 1972, just a year after her death by suicide. ***PLEASE NOTE that additional shipping charges for this moderately heavy book will be req... View More...
(printed wraps) [some uneven fading to the front cover, a couple of tiny stains along left edge of front cover, a bit of rust on the staples]. SIGNED by Ritchie on the title page. The Archer paper is entitled "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence"; The Ritchie paper is "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California." A small card, folded and inserted over the top of the title page, reads: "A Roxburghe-Zamorano Keepsake 1968 from the UCLA Library." Signed by One Author View More...
[minor shelfwear, the faintest bit of soiling to bottom of text block; jacket has a couple of wrinkles in the spine, light rubbing to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of B-movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder in 1954 of American International Pictures, where "an entire generation of filmmakers and stars got their start." View More...
(pictorial paste-on cover illustratoins; no dust jacket) [a well-worn ex-library copy, with remnants of removed labels on front pastedown and ffep, bumping and edgewear all around; also note that the celluloid silhouette of Stalin is missing from this copy]. (B&W photographs) The Soviets' own assessment (in English) of their national cinema during the Stalin era, profusely illustrated. Includes: numerous articles on the Soviet film industry and its importance in the life of the nation and its people, the high political and artistic qualities of the country's cinematic art, etc.; biographical... View More...
[spine slightly turned, bottom front corner and base of spine bumped; jacket shows just a bit of surface wear, tiny wrinkle at top of front panel]. (B&W/color photographs) "An in-depth re-creation of the making of Hitchcock's signature thriller." Foreword by Martin Scorsese. View More...
[minor edgewear to covers, a nice tight clean copy]. Trade PB A compilation of interviews with the noted French screenwriter and sometime director (1903-1992), covering his long career (which stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s) and containing commentary and insights on most of his 80 films and many of his collaborators, including directors Ren Clment, Bertrand Tavernier, Marcel Carn, Jean Delannoy and Claude Autant-Lara, as well as his frequent screenwriting partner Pierre Bost. All text is in French. View More...
[a tiny dog-earing to the lower corner of the rear cover, date rubber-stamped on top edge, otherwise bright and clean]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Mini-reviews of modern horror (emphasis on gory) films, a companion to the author's earlier "The Gore Score" (published in various versions from 1985 to 1989). This volume, per the author's introduction, contains "all new, never-before-published reviews of movies released since 1989 as well as any film I may have missed during the early 80s. [It includes] an index listing title, rating and Gore Score of films previously reviewed, [and]... View More...
[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, faint musty odor from long storage, tiny inked date on ffep; jacket very slightly rubbed, faint foxing on flaps, some insignificant wrinkling in the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A full-scale history of the first fifty years of Indian cinema and the Indian film industry, which during the 1920s "was already outproducing Great Britain." View More...
[virtually as new, with just a touch of handling wear]. Trade PB (color reproductions) Oversize-postcard size reproductions (approx. 5"x8") of one-sheet posters or lobby cards from 31 B-movie classics, including TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE, DETOUR, GUN CRAZY, CRY BABY KILLER, BLONDE SAVAGE, PRIVATE HELL 36, and so forth. The follow-up to a previous compilation, "Lost, Lonely, and Vicious." View More...
(no dust jacket) [modest browning to spine cloth, slight fading along several edges]. (B&W photographs, graphics) "An alphabetical anthology of unique human beings; a portrait gallery in words and photographs of a hundred living people whom we, its self-appointed curators, both admire. Here are no lawyers, no heads of state, no professional footballers [because] these callings, admirable as they are, lie outside the range of our immediate interests. Honesty dictated that our bias be towards actors, actresses, writers, painters, dancers and clowns. One politician has slipped in; so has a hor... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice copy with no wear whatsoever to book, just a previous owner's squiggled signature at top of ffep; the jacket bright and unblemished, downgraded only because of the price-clipping)]. (The Collected Works of Samuel Beckett) Series (B&W photographs) Beckett's original script (the only screenplay he ever wrote) for his 1965 short film featuring Buster Keaton, illustrated with photos from the film (although it's worth noting that "no attempt has been made to bring [the script] into line with the finished work"). Includes Beckett's own notes on the script, an an essay, "On Di... View More...
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