[a nice clean copy with just minor wear to the extremities; ditto the jacket, with only a touch of surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs, drawings) The first full-length biography of the great film composer, chronicling his life and works "from his days as a celebrated Wunderkind in imperial Vienna, through his spectacular career as a composer of opera and symphonic works, to his escape from the Nazis to America, where he pioneering the symphonic film score and won two Oscars." Includes a comprehensive discography and bibliography, and a complete list of the composer's works. **** NOTE t... View More...
[book shows some discoloration (browning) to cloth, moderate shelfwear, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; the jacket is a real mess, primarily due to a large piece missing from the top of the front panel, although there are plenty of other small tears and chips, some laminate puckering/peeling, etc. -- all in all, not a pretty sight, sorry]. (B&W photographs) "The picture diary of one of today's most brilliant roving photographers, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who lived in China from December 1948 to September 1949. In those eventful and often dangerous months he watched from close at hand... View More...
[very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to book, just the slightest bit of wrinkling to the front panel of the jacket]. Thought an examination of the Hollywood work of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, Dorothy Parker, and Budd Schulberg, this book "explores the often tense relationship between these accomplished writers and the film industry in which they were immersed and finds that this marriage of talent and power was mutually beneficial if not always happy. Combining film studies with literary analysis, this alternative view of the creative negotiations between representativ... View More...
[modest external wear, front-cover laminate just starting to left at one corner]. (B&W photographs) Spiral-bound promotional book, designed to promote British films for the Continental marketplace. Each of the three dozen films highlighted is given a double-page spread, with credits, photos, and a brief synopsis in English, beneath which are short blurbs about the film in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Included are a few bona fide classics -- A TASTE OF HONEY (Tony Richardson), ONLY TWO CAN PLAY (Sidney Gilliat, starring Peter Sellers), THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (Ric... View More...
(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, spine slightly turned, spine cloth a bit faded, gilt spine lettering dulled]. Uncommon novel (the author's second), set in New Orleans, about a somewhat hard-boiled (and hard-drinking) newspaperman and his pregnant wife. In the course of the story (to quote a contemporary review), the protagonist "goes from a small country newspaper to one of the big wire services in New Orleans. It tells of [him] settling down in his new job, of covering an execution, a milk strike and a hurricane, and of his personal life with his wife and small son while another child is... View More...
[book is very nice, with only light handling wear; jacket moderately soiled, spine a little darkened]. (B&W photographs) Memoir of the noted Soviet/Russian actor, best remembered for his titles roles in Sergei Eisenstein's epics ALEXANDER NEVSKY and IVAN THE TERRIBLE. My "Revised Edition(?)" note derives from this statement, on the rear jacket flap: "The book was first published in 1953. Since then Cherkasov has appeared at Leningrad's Pushkin Theatre in the role he had long dreamed of playing -- the role of the talented Soviet poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky. How he worked on the role is descri... View More...
[slight wear to edges and extremities, minor dog-earing to bottom right corner of front cover]. (B&W and color photographs) Catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Childers's photos presented by the Palm Springs Desert Museum from December 2003 through February 2004. Childers was the longtime companion of film director John Schlesinger; among his subjects represented in this catalogue are: Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner; Groucho Marx; Bette Midler; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Catherine Deneuve; Ben Kingsley; Sir Laurence Olivier; Anjelica Huston; Robert Graham; Andy Warhol; David Hockney (... View More...
(price-clipped) [quite a nice copy, laminated photographic boards (matching the dust jacket illustration) with just a bit of wear at spine ends; jacket is a little edgeworn, with minor paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by author F.M. Christeson at the top of the half-title page, above an illustration of an elephant. Photo-illustrated "biographies" of numerous animal movie actors, with individual chapters devoted to: Anna May, The Elephant; Colonel, The Leaping Tiger; Jackie, The Wrestling Lion; Eckie, The Leopard; Gertie, The Jaguar; Jalmers and Jockamo, South American Pum... View More...
[book itself is nice and clean with no discernible wear; jacket has a touch of edgewear along the top and bottoms edges, a bit of scuffing to the rear panel, and one tiny nick at the right edge of the front panel]. (128 color plates, B&W photographs) A comprehensive record of the artist's work, including essays and appreciations by Chuang Shen, Roger Goepper, Hsiao Chong-ray, and Robert Moes, and two contributions by the artist himself: "The Spirit of Art in Eastern and Western Cultures: A Comparative View" and "Personal Statement." The volume also contains: Catalogue of Selected Paintings; B... View More...
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Los Angeles, Architectural Guild Press, University of Southern California, School of Architecture; for the Los Angeles Conservancy : (c.1997)
[light handling wear only]. (B&W photogaphs, architectural drawings and plans) Oversize, square-format booklet (12" x 12", 48 pages not including covers), presenting a plan for the restoration and reuse of the historical St. Vibiana Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, the product of a study commissioned by the Los Angeles Conservancy. The study, conducted by the School of Architecture at USC, "assembled a diverse team of sixteen firms with expertise in architecture, planning, preservation, development, constructino costing, and economic feasibility," and presented nine possible scenarios for a... View More...
[light shelfwear, one tiny stain near top of front cover, small bit of damage to bottom front of spine]. (B&W photographs, added by previous owner) Five screenplays (in French) by Clair, with his introduction and notes on each: LE SILENCE EST D'OR; LA BEAUT DU DIABLE; LES BELLES-DE-NUIT; LES GRANDES MANUVRES; PORTE DE LILAS. These make up the bulk of his postwar work. NOTE that a previous owner of the book has, at several points throughout, affixed small photographs (probably cut from magazines) that are relevant to the films; there are also occasional marginalia in ink. View More...
[moderate bumping to all corners, some spotting/soiling to top edge of text block, a little wear at top of spine; jacket is age-tanned and heavily chipped at various edges and corners]. Fifteen "humorous stories" by an author who, it's claimed in the introduction, "is trying the experiment of inflicting these...on the public." Both this introduction and the jacket blurb inform us that the author's writing activities had been for his own pleasure rather than for the "general literary market" (which might imply that he'd accumulated a drawerful of rejection slips), and yet the jacket blurb als... View More...
[a little external wear to edges and corners, slight fading to spine, minor diagonal creasing at bottom corner of rear cover, some kind of gunky spot (with a bit of accompanying surface-peel damage) on front cover]. (one B&W film still) Classic of Western fiction, and the basis for a stark and haunting 1943 film adaptation directed by William Wellman, starring Henry Fonda as a reluctant participant in a lynching. This particular printing (the first Penguin edition) is actually a tie-in with that movie, in a small way: there's a single half-page still from the film (showing Dana Andrews and Fr... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, some shelfwear to the lower extremities, faint deterioration to cloth along both joints, modest uneven soiling to covers]. Romance novel about a beautiful young Virginia mountain girl who's "discovered" by a young college man who's out in the boonies on an errand for his father (a mine owner). Quite smitten (although it takes him the better part of the book to admit to himself that he's in love with her), he "adopts" her, arranges for his wealthy parents to pay for her education at "Mrs. Wood's Select School for Young Ladies," and monitors and encourages ... View More...
(pictorial boards, with dust jacket) [very light wear to book extremities; jacket has a bit of edgewear and light surface wear, small piece torn away at top of rear flap-fold, tiny closed tear and associated horizontal crease at bottom of rear panel]. (Doubleday Signal Books) Series (pen and ink drawings) Memoir, for juvenile readers, of an African-American soldier who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and "found out that the color of his skin made a difference to the army -- more difference than anything else." "This is the exciting story of the Negro soldiers of World War II -- ho... View More...
[no discernible wear to book; jacket has one tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) 100+ photos of the iconic actor, taken during the early period of his superstardom, the mid-1960s. This book, bearing a 2008 copyright date, is a larger-format hardcover reprint of a softcover edition issued by Taschen in 2004 (a copy of which is also for sale by ReadInk) -- which itself appears to have been a revised edition (with German and French text, in addition to the original English) of a very similar book published by Arena Editions in 2000, although not acknowledged as s... View More...
(flexible card covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, as-new, with no discernible wear]. (B&W and color photographs) 100+ photos of the iconic actor, taken during the early period of his superstardom, the mid-1960s. This book appears to be a revised edition (with German and French text, in addition to the original English) of a very similar book published by Arena Editions in 2000, although not acknowledged as such in the book itself. (I cannot vouch for the photographic content being identical with the original.) Taschen also published a hardcover edition, in a slightly large... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate bumping to base of spine, slight bumping and minor wear to upper corners, spine cloth just a tad faded, minor staining to front cover, front-cover gilt and decoration still bright; internally clean, all plates present and firmly attached]. (color frontispiece, 12 B&W plates) From the Preface, by no less a personage than Charles Ffoulkes, of the Office of the Armouries at the Tower of London: "The perusal of Mr. Clephan's work has shown me that it would have been impossible to undertake such a project without unattainable leisure, tireless energy, deep research and v... View More...
[nice tight clean copy with no significant wear, vintage bookseller's label (Gardner's Book Shop, Stockton, California) on rear pastedown; jacket has a little wear at upper extremities]. Novel about a woman "and her artist husband, [who] face each other as lovers and as enemies." Set in the jungles of an unspecified Central American country, this was one of relatively few adult novels by this author (1893-1986), who was primarily known for her many books for children, including the Newbery Medal-winning "The Cat Who Went to Heaven." View More...
(no dust jacket) [good solid copy with only light wear, a slight bump to the bottom corner of the front cover, and the usual age-toning to the cheap pulpwood paper]. (4 B&W film stills) First book publication of this mystery, originally published serially in The Saturday Evening Post, which was the basis for the 1944 film starring Merle Oberon and Franchot Tone, for which this was a tie-in edition (illustrated by four stills from the film). Frank (usually billed as Francis) and Marian Cockrell were a husband-and-wife writing team (who sometimes worked individually) who transitioned nicely fr... View More...
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