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Yes, My Darling Daughters

By: Duncan, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1960 (c.1959)

Seller ID: 24196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dj

[light shelfwear, minor spotting to edges of text block, one-time owner's name stamped on front pastedown; jacket is very nice, slightly browned at spine but otherwise unblemished]. Set in Los Angeles, this light-hearted novel deals with a novelist-screenwriter and his three unruly teenage daughters. Like his protagonist, the author was a science-fiction writer and sometime-screenwriter (his most notable credit was THE TIME MACHINE, but he was also responsible for such lower-grade fare as MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS and THE LEECH WOMAN) -- and according to his IMdB data, he had (wait for it....) t...
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Cine-Kodak News (June 1940) [cover: The Golden Gate Exposition]

By: Eastman Kodak Company

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester NY, Eastman Kodak Company: 1940

Seller ID: 25531

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good

[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 backgro...
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The Worm Ouroboros; a romance

By: Eddison, E.R.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.: 1952

Seller ID: 25483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice copy with minimal shelfwear, slight bumping to upper corners, faint age-toning to edges of text block; jacket spine a little faded and slightly scuffed, a few tiny edge-nicks here and there]. (frontispiece, 5 full-page pen and ink drawings) Reissue of Eddison's classic fantasy, originally published in 1922, with a new introduction by Orville Prescott but retaining the Keith Henderson illustrations from the first edition.
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Plays: One [The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Mary Barnes; Saigon Rose; O Fair Jerusalem; Destiny]

By: Edgar, David

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Methuen London Ltd.: 1987

Seller ID: 25684

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[light edgewear to covers, diagonal creasing at top and bottom corners of front cover, bottom corner of rear cover]. (Methuen's World Dramatists) Series Five works by one of Britain's leading political playwrights. "This volume offers the best of his work from the seventies on subjects ranging from South Africa ("The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs") to schizophrenia ("Mary Barnes"), from venereal disease ("Saigon Rose") to the Black Death ("O Fair Jerusalem"), and on to the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain ("Destiny").
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Comrade Yetta

By: Edwards, Albert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1913

Seller ID: 18431

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, modest wear to extremities, spine a bit turned, slight bump to bottom front corner]. Novel about a young Jewish girl on New York's Lower East Side, who's forced to go to work in a garment factory after the death of her father (owner of a second-hand bookstore). When the dreadful working conditions compel she and her co-workers to strike, Yetta gets involved with the Woman's Trade Union League and its charismatic leader, Mabel Train. This sets her on a path of transformation from an "ignorant, timid, toil-drugged" sweatshop worker to "an intelligent,...
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Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

By: Eisenstein, Sergei (edited and translated by Jay Leyda)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Dennis Dobson: 1963

Seller ID: 25560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a beautiful copy, clean and as-new, with no discernible wear to book; just the tiniest wrinkle at upper left corner of front jacket panel]. (International Theatre and Cinema) Series (B&W photographs, diagrams) Orignially published in America the year after Eisenstein's death (this being the second impression of the British edition, first issued in 1951), this is a companion volume to the great Soviet director's 1942 book "The Film Sense." "From among his hundreds of writings, this choice selection shows key-points in the development of his film theory and demonstrates the range a...
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The Film Sense

By: Eisenstein, Sergei M. (translated and edited by Jay Leyda)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber Ltd: 1948

Seller ID: 25569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[no significant wear to book, just a touch of light foxing to the top of the text block; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a handful of tiny chips (the largest being at the bottom of the front panel), a few scuff marks on the front panel, a little scuffing and a couple of nicks to the spine, and some very slight paper loss at the spine extremties]. (B&W photographs, sketches, diagrams) The first American edition of the great Soviet filmmaker's first book, "a brilliant discussion of the modern film as a richer, more expressive and profound medium than has hitherto been thought possible.&#...
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The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt

By: Eisner, Lotte H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1977

Seller ID: 25628

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[slight dog-earing to several cover corners, light soiling to bottom of text block, previous owner's scrawled initials at top of ffep]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Classic critical/historical work on German cinema of the silent era and its theatrical roots. "The author explains the key critical concepts of the time, and surveys not only the work of the great directors, such as Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau, but also the contribution of their writers, cameramen and designers." Originally published in France in 1952 (as "L'Ecran Demonaique"), it was revised and reissued in 1965; t...
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Breaking Into the Movies

By: Emerson, John, and Anita Loos

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The James A. McCann Company: (c.1921)

Seller ID: 25317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(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,...
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You Must Remember This

By: Evans, Karen L.B., and Pat Dade

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion Books for Children: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 25596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[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 ...
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The Perception of Color

By: Evans, Ralph M.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: (c.1974)

Seller ID: 25319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows a touch of edgewear along the upper edges, a few tiny scuff marks here and there]. (tables, charts) "A revolutionary book that will appeal to color scientists as well as to photographic technologists, people in the graphic and printing arts, artists who work in any color medium, physicists who deal with light, and psychologists who work in the field of human perception. [The author] presents the foundations of modern color science and examines the psychological principles of color vision."
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Principles of Color Photography

By: Evans, Ralph M., W.T. Hanson Jr., and W. Lyle Brewer

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York & London, John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall: (c.1953)

Seller ID: 25323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [good solid clean copy with only minor wear; apparently once part of a private library, as there is a one inch-wide gilt band painted neatly across the spine (you can see the end of it in the scanned image), with a call number of some sort (but not part of any library classification system that I'm familiar with) written thereon in black ink]. (charts, tables, figures) A fantastically detailed and highly technical exegesis of the chemistry behind color photography, as developed by the Eastman Kodak Company. The three authors were all Kodak staff people, and as explained in th...
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The Ant People

By: Ewers, Hanns Heinz (translated by Clifton Harby Levy)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 25578

Binding: Hardcover Second Printing

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [attractive book with minimal external wear, but with a cracked front hinge and some foxing on the frontispiece photo, title page, and fore-edge; bookplate of Hollywood writer-producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown, vintage bookseller's label (Unity Pegues, Hollywood) on rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs) A book about ants for the layman, espousing the view (per the translator's introduction) that "the ants are a wonderful people [with] some of the virtues and many of the vices of humanity"; he further likens Ewers's book to Maeterlinck's "epic of the Bee," ...
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The Men in Her Life

By: Fabian, Warner (pseud. for Samuel Hopkins Adams)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Sears Publishing Company, Inc.: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 19270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[modest shelfwear, light age-toning to edges of text block, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket has a bit of paper loss at most corners, a few other random tiny chips and small tears]. Novel about a "little Irish beauty" who is "too innocent to know what all these men want from her," but manages to string a bunch of them along "through the bewildering whirl of modern high society, in night clubs and cocktail parties, threading her way amongst the pitfalls in the houses of the fastest sets." (The jacket ...
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Moonflower

By: Fairbanks, Bessie Winifred

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Robin Wilder and Company: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 25612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear to extremities, pages somewhat age-toned; jacket somewhat browned and slightly mottled along spine, a bit of paper loss at top of spine and upper corners, a couple of tiny tears at base of spine]. The author's first (and apparently only) novel, a "desert story" set in the American Southwest. There's not much geographical specificity, and although some early action in the book takes place in Needles, California, the presence of a number of Navajo characters in the book is more suggestive of an Arizona or New Mexico locale. (There is constant reference throughout the book ...
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Ex-Love

By: Farnham, Mateel Howe

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1937

Seller ID: 25026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[book is lightly shelfworn, spine slightly turned, a bit of soiling to edges of text block; jacket is worn at spine and along edges, spine a bit faded, a couple of small tears and associated short creasing along bottom edge, some random staining on front panel]. Novel that presents "a searching commentary on modern divorce," by way of an expose of the alimony racket. The plot involves a woman who gratuitiously divorces her husband and demands a large alimony settlement -- but even that's not good enough for her, OH no: even though she herself is well-off, she "bitterly resents [h...
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Writing for the Films

By: Fawcett, L'Estrange

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 25151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice solid clean copy, minor wear to extremities]. An interesting little volume -- not, as its title might imply, a screenwriting how-to manual -- but rather a kind of guide to how the film industry (primarily the British) works, with an emphasis on how stories are selected and developed for the screen. The first chapter is called "The Present Studio Policy," and gives a pretty good snapshot of the business in the early years of the Great Depression. Subsequent chapters are: "Choosing the Public's Pictures"; "Adaptation"; "Authors and Studios"...
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Anne Alive!: A Year in the Life of a Girl of New York State

By: Fayerweather, Margaret Doane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Junior Literary Guild / Robert M. McBride & Company: 1933

Seller ID: 16258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, very slight bumping and wear to corners, spine slightly turned, some fading to spine cloth, one-time owner's neat signature on ffep]. (pen and ink drawings) The first of three "Anne" books by this author, this novel for juvenile readers is backgrounded against "a vivid picture of life in Albany among those who direct the government of the great state of New York." The Foreword is by Eleanor Roosevelt, who calls the author "my friend." Mrs. Fayerweather came by her knowledge of the workings of the New York State government honestl...
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Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film

By: Feaster, Felicia, and Bret Wood

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.: 1999

Seller ID: 25268

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[the very tiniest bend in upper right corner of front cover, otherwise an as-new copy; appears unread]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) This book "offers the first thorough examination of the exploitation cinema while capturing the devious spirit of this renegade film movement. Abounding with anecdotes, character sketches and insights, [the book] offers vivid depictions of exploitation kinds and con-men, detailed readings of the films themselves and the unique stretch of American history that inspired them." Much information about the giants(?) of this part of the business: Kr...
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Death Valley: A Guide

By: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: (c.1939)

Seller ID: 25335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

[book is moderately shelfworn, has a library-type pocket on front pastedown (with one-time owner's address label affixed), the same owner's signature on the copyright page, and a small envelope glued to the rear pastedown (see notes for content); the fold-out map affixed to rear endpaper is present and in excellent condition; jacket is heavily chipped along top edge, partially split along spine, a little paper loss at spine ends, a few tiny scrape marks on front panel, a tiny scraped hole in rear panel]. (American Guide Series) Series (B&W photographs) Comprehensive guide to the history, geol...
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