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The Left Side of Paradise: The Screenwriting of John Howard Lawson

By: Carr, Gary

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor MI, UMI Research Press: (c.1984, 1975)

Seller ID: 25461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [a nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (Studies in Cinema, No. 26) Series Analysis of the movie work of the writer who was probably the most politically outspoken screenwriter of his day, probably best remembered not for any of the films he wrote (quick, name one), but rather as a blacklisted member of the "Hollywood Ten."
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Designing for Films

By: Carrick, Edward (Edward Craig)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London/New York, The Studio Publications: 1949

Seller ID: 26442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [light wear to spine ends, covers very slightly bowed]. ("How to Do It" series, no. 27) Series (B&W photographs, diagrams) A comprehensive examination of the design and building of sets for motion pictures. The author, the son of famed theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, was a British film designer and sometime director, who in 1937 had opened the first school devoted to the study of art as applied to film production. During World War II he served with the Crown Film Unit, and after the war became executive art director at Pinewood Studios. This is a "New Edition" of a...
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The Velvet Glove; a comedy in three acts

By: Casey, Rosemary

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York/Hollywood, Samuel French: (c.1950, 1948)

Seller ID: 25716

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, slight tanning to spine, tiny chip at top of spine]. (B&W photo frontispiece, stage diagram) Comedy centering around issues of academic freedom at a Roman Catholic girls' college, where the Mother-General's defense of a young layman's teaching methods brings her into conflict with her Bishop. The original Broadway production ran for 152 performances between December 1949 and May 1950. According to the copyright page, the work was previously copyrighted under the title "Mother Hildebrand"; under that title it had been the recipient of an award from the Christophers, ...
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Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood

By: Cerasulo, Tom

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Columbia, The University of South Carolina Press: (c.2010)

Seller ID: 26359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[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...
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Chagall's Passover Haggadah

By: Chagall, Marc

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/Paris, Leon Amiel Publisher: 1987

Seller ID: 26136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket; in slipcase) [overall Near Fine, the book showing no discernible wear but bearing a heartfelt gift inscription to "Mom and Dad" on the front endpaper, the slipcase with just a bit of wear at a couple of corners, and the beginnings of a tiny crack at the lower front corner]. (color illustrations) The story of Exodus, accompanied by Chagall's beautiful color illustrations -- 24 full-page and one double-page fold-out. Text in English and Hebrew. **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will apply for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priorit...
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Trouble is My Business

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books (25513): 1977

Seller ID: 25794

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice tight clean copy, minor edgewear to covers and spine ends]. Mass Market PB Four Philip Marlowe tales: "Trouble is My Business"; "Finger Man"; "Goldfish"; and "Red Wind." Includes Chandler's introduction to the original 1950 anthology, "The Simple Art of Murder," in which these selections also appeared.
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Pickup on Noon Street

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books (25634): 1977

Seller ID: 25795

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[nice tight copy, minor edgewear to covers, short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover (also affecting the first few pages)]. Mass Market PB Four pulp-magazine tales from Chandler's early career: "Pickup on Noon Street"; "Smart-Aleck Kill"; "Guns at Cyrano's"; and "Nevada Gas." All stories had previously been anthologized in the 1950 book "The Simple Art of Murder."
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Killer in the Rain

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books (25728): 1977

Seller ID: 25796

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[generally a nice solid clean copy, with just a bit of edge- and corner-wear to covers]. Mass Market PB Paperback edition of this posthumous collection (first issued in hardcover in 1964) of eight early stories that Chandler referred to as his "cannibalized" work, by which he meant "that in later life he sometimes used episodes and characters from them in the full-length novels which made him famous." In addition to the title story, the volume includes: "Bay City Blues"; "No Crime in the Mountains"; "Mandarin's Jade"; "The Lady in the Lake"; &#...
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My Life with Chaplin: An Intimate Memoir [SIGNED]

By: Chaplin, Lita Grey, with Morton Cooper

Price: $60.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Bernard Geis Associates: (c.1966)

Seller ID: 26287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean book with no significant wear; jacket has one tiny nick at top of front panel, a touch of wear at upper spine corners, a few light surface-scratches, diagonal crease in bottom corner of rear flap]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper: "To Mr. & Mrs. / _______ ______ / Best Wishes / Lita Grey Chaplin / Oct - 1966." A sensational-bordering-on-lurid memoir by Charlie Chaplin's second wife -- a child bride, basically, who "he had taken under his wing at twelve and into his bed at fifteen," and married when she was pregnant at sixteen. Later in her life, she...
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British Films 1962

By: Charman, Bernard, ed.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Welwyn Garden City (U.K.), The Alcuin Press: [1962]

Seller ID: 25778

Binding: Spiral bound

Condition: Very Good+

[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...
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The Golden Tag

By: Chaze, Elliott

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1950

Seller ID: 25679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(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 chil...
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Notes of a Soviet Actor

By: Cherkasov, N[ikolay] (translated from the Russian by G. Ivanov-Mumjiev and S. Rosenberg)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House: [1957]

Seller ID: 25306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[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 ro...
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Voodoo: Africa's Secret Power

By: Chesi, Gert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Wörgl (Austria), Perlinger Verlag: 1980/81

Seller ID: 25489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean book, very slight bumping to top corners, no other significant wear; jacket has a couple of short closed tears and associated creasing at bottom of front panel, a two-inch closed tear at top front hinge (tape-repaired) with a long associated diagonal crease, minor paper loss at top right corner of front panel, two more short tears (one closed, one a bit ragged) at top of rear panel, diagonal crease at bottom corner of front flap, some wear along spine]. (color and B&W photographs) "This book is the first of its kind about African Voodoo, which spread throughout Africa in the p...
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Icons and Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers

By: Childers, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palm Springs CA, Palm Springs Desert Museum: 2003

Seller ID: 26313

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[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 (...
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Wild Animal Actors [SIGNED]

By: Christeson, F.M. and H.M.; introduction by Frank Buck

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co. / Junior Press Books: 1935

Seller ID: 26440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(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...
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Image for Property from the Collection of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon: Volume I, Jewellery and Fabergé (Tuesday 13 June 2006); Volume II, Furniture and Works of Art (Wednesday 14 June 2006)

Property from the Collection of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon: Volume I, Jewellery and Fabergé (Tuesday 13 June 2006); Volume II, Furniture and Works of Art (Wednesday 14 June 2006)

By: Christie's

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Christie's International Media Division: 2006

Seller ID: 25897

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[both volumes in Fine condition, each protected by a new mylar jacket]. (color and B&W photographs) Lavishly-produced two-volume catalogue of the two-day auction, held at Christie's London, of Princess Margaret's lifetime accumulation of Royal Stuff. The Daily Mail reported that the first day of the sale was "was packed with more than 1,000 bidders in four sweltering rooms, including several ranks of staff assigned to take telephone bids from at least 500 potential customers." The swag was flogged by her son, Lord Linley, reportedly "to raise cash for crippling inheritance taxes,...
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The BUK Book: Musings on Charles Bukowski

By: Christy, Jim

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, ECW Press: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 25566

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[just a touch of edge-toning visible on the insides of the covers, otherwise clean and as-new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This book "offers a unique look at a phenomenon: Charles Bukowski -- BUK -- the battered and scarred postal clerk, odd jobs man, and lowly factotum [whose] work -- raw, crude, heartwarming, and hilarious -- has inspired imitators, emulators, sycophants, and detractors. Until now, everything written about the man has suffered accordingly [but] Jim Christy cuts through all the crap, and writes engagingly about the man, the myth, and his work. The book features twenty-f...
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Chao Chung-hsiang (Zhao Chunxiang)

By: Chuang Shen, Roger Goepper, et al.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts Ltd.: (c.1992)

Seller ID: 26137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[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 Selec...
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Village in August

By: Chun, T'ien [Xiao Jun]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Smith & Durrell: (c.1942)

Seller ID: 25659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice clean copy with minimal wear, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood), small ownership signature of film director Vincent Sherman on ffep; jacket is edgeworn (especially along front hinge), with various nicks and tears and minor creasing, some paper loss at top of spine]. "China's Great War Novel," screams the cover blurb, with the book given the additional imprimatur of an introduction by Edgar Snow, probably the most widely-known "China expert" of his day. Snow states that the book was "the first contemporary Chinese...
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A Reuse Study for the Cathedral of St. Vibiana [Los Angeles]

By: Chusid, Jeffrey M., AIA Editor

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Architectural Guild Press, University of Southern California, School of Architecture; for the Los Angeles Conservancy: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 26324

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[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...
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