[pages tanned but not brittle, slightly heavier than usual edgewear to yapped covers, rear cover wrinkled/soiled, small tear at right edge of front cover]. (pen and ink illustrations) Novelette: "Satan Strikes," a Satan Hall story (John Carroll Daly). Short stories: "A Dead Man in the Cast" (Edward Parrish Ware); "Red Rebound" (Frederick C. Davis); "Head Hunt" (Charles Alexander); "Murder Terrace" (Robert Arthur). Serial: "The Ship of Death," Part 2 of 5 (Michael Keyes). True stories: "The 'Pipe' Murders" (Bert Mohrman); "Illustrated Crimes: The Owl Car Murders" (Paul Berdanier); "I Am a C... View More...
[typical edgewear to yapped covers (tiny nicks, bends, etc.), pages tanned but not brittle, small ragged (but closed) horizontal tear at left edge of front cover, some soiling/staining to rear cover (pen and ink illustrations) Novelette: "Death Follows the Rat," a Twist Sullivan story (Carroll John Daly). Short stories: "Bright Copper!" (Roland Phillips); "Stormy Night" (Edward Parrish Ware); "The Edge of the Blade" (Eugene P. Lyle, Jr.). Serial: "Wanted for Murder," Part 2 of 5 (Hulbert Footner). True stories: "Broadway Wolf," Part 3 of 6 (No. "000"); "Illustrated Crimes: The Six-Years Man... View More...
[moderate age-toning to spine and along edges of covers, light external soiling]. The inaugural issue of this long-running literary journal, which continues to this day, self-described as the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture. In this issue, devoted entirely to the topic of existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre was given the first word, with excerpted scenes from his then-current play Les mains sales. This was followed by sixteen essays on topics ranging from general discussions of existentialism to analyses of individua... View More...
[nice condition, minor wrinkling in spine, slight edgewear to covers, pages tanned at edges but still supple, small rubber-stamped date on front cover]. (halftone photographs, drawings, ads, etc.) Pulp-magazine format publication containing numerous features (pictorial, historical, technical, even poetic) for the railroad enthusiast. Two fiction offerings in this issue: "Railroaders Are Tough" by "Haywire Mac" and "The Open Gate" by E.S. Dellinger. View More...
[nice clean copy with only light external wear]. (B&W photographs, ads) A substantial portion of this issue is devoted to Benny Goodman, with a group of short feature articles about the man and his band, basically a tie-in with the then-current movie THE BENNY GOODMAN STORY, released in February 1956, which starred Steve Allen as Goodman. It's not strictly movie puffery, though, instead presenting a serious and informative look at Goodman's career and musical artistry, and at his band as it was constituted at the time. After a 2-page introductory article, there is a group of shorter (usually... View More...
[light soiling/staining to covers, diagonal wrinkle (binding flaw) at upper left corner of front cover]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Nostalgia-oriented publication devoted to Western films. In this issue: an article about entertainer/actress Texas Guinan; a feature about the "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted" B-pictures produced by Grand National and Monogram in the late 1930s and early 1940s; an article about the Western Writers of America; an article about a dedicated "Lone Ranger" fan, Frank Swain of Pulaski, Virginia; a career article on Tom Mix (with a filmography of his films through 191... View More...
[nice clean copy, a little wear along spine, slight bend at lower edge]. (B&W photographs) Critical film journal. In this issue: an essay by Thom,as Elsaesser, "Reflection & Reality: Narrative Cinema in the Concave Mirror"; an article about Jacques Rivetta and his then-current film L'AMOUR FOU, incorporating some interview material with the director; reviews of Bernardo Bertolucci's STRATEGIA DEL RAGNO (here translated as THE SPIDER'S STRATEGY, but later known as THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM), Roberto Rossellini's ATTI DEGLI APOSTOLI (ACTS OF THE APOSTLES), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's DER AMERIKANIS... View More...
[nice clean copy, light edgewear, tiny nick in front cover at left end of bottom edge, old subscription label at lower right corner of front cover]. Undoubtedly one of the best (or at least most fruitful) single issues of an American popular magazine ever published, by virtue of its inclusion of the first printings of two stories that became the basis for two acknowledged classics of Hollywood movie-making: "Bringing Up Baby" by Hagar Wilde (filmed under that title by Howard Hawks, a high-water mark of screwball comedy, with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant) and "Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest ... View More...
[very slight bumps/bends to upper right and lower right corners, no other significant wear]. (B&W photographs, ads) Magazine devoted to independent film and video production. Features in this issue: "Seeing Double," an examination of the difference in film treatments of identical subjects by Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers (case in point: WILD STYLE vs. BREAKIN' and BEAT STREET); an interview with director Peter Watkins, who was then engaged in the production of a follow-up to his 1966 film THE WAR GAME. Also: "In Memoriam" tributes to filmmaker/teacher Geri Ashur and video ar... View More...
DETAILS NEEDED. Catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of the graphic work produced by George Grosz during his years in Berlin, from 1916 to 1932. The text of this edition is in Catalan -- appropriate enough, given that the exhibition was held in València, although my observation is that the regular Spanish-language edition is a good deal more common. But who cares?: given that there doesn't appear to have ever been an English-language edition of this publication, what monolinguists like myself are left with are the illustrations, and they are magnificent: over 150 of them (in black & w... View More...
[all three magazines in VG or better condition, the only notable blemish being about 1/2" of paper loss at the bottom of the spine of the January 1941 issue]. These three issues contain the complete 3-part serial "Sixth Column" by Anson MacDonald, a pseudonym for Robert Heinlein -- technically qualifying this as his first published novel, even though it didn't receive a hardcover printing until 1948. Other highlights of these issues are noted. January 1941: novelettes "The Mechanical Mice" by Maurice G. Hugi and "Doom Ship" by Harry Walton, stories "The Day We Celebrate" by Nelson S. Bond an... View More...
[modest shelfwear to lower extremities, light dampstaining to top of text block; the jacket is dampstained along the spine, a bit edgeworn here and there, small closed tears at top and bottom of front panel, internally tape-reinforced along the top and bottom edges, rear panel moderately soiled and age-browned]. 23 short stories, one novelette ("It" by Theodore Sturgeon), and one novel ("Out of the Deeps" by John Wyndham). Another in the long-running series of story collections nominally edited by Hitchcock (this one bears a prefatory note acknowledging "the invaluable assistance of Robert Ar... View More...
[moderate edgewear to covers, minor deterioration along spine, light discoloration around edges of rear cover]. (B&W and color photographs, ads) Feature articles in this issue include: the cover story, examining "how M-G-M Studios Laboratory and Sound technicians overcame all-but-impossible technical odds to create 'fully dimensional' version" of GWTW for its then-current re-release (which no doubt seemed like an amazing feat at the time, although viewed in a somewhat different light was a desecration); "The Challenges of Filming Commercials for Color TV"; a behind-the-scenes production repor... View More...
[a very nice copy, almost as-new, with just a slight vertical bend near the fore-edge]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) In this issue: a largely pictorial tribute to Boris Karloff, who had died in February 1969; a profile of Catherine Deneuve, incorporating an interview; an interview with Gordon Parks, talking about his film THE LEARNING TREE; a feature about filmmaker Jim McBride and his film DAVID HOLTZMAN'S DIARY, which had had its first major U.S. screening the previous September at MoMA; a story, "Lost Film Africa," about an 1898 filmmaking excursion led by the Rt. Hon. Sir Philip Hay-Pritc... View More...
[minor edgewear to covers only]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "Mode and Meaning in 2001 [: A SPACE ODYSSEY]"; "Valuelessness and Vacillation in the Films of Julie Christie"; "The Police State"; "Hitchcock's Violence: A Fan's Note" (a poem by John C. Hammond); "American Nightmare: The Underworld in Film"; "The Stars in Our Hearts: A Critical Commentary on George Lucas"; a "review essay" on Diane Jacobs's book "Hollywood Renaissance." View More...
[minor edgewear to covers only; all postcards are present]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Small book of 30 postcards (all are present). "From the old Polo Grounds and Ebbetts [sic] Field ballparks to the once-ubiquitous Woolworth's lunch counters and Automats, [this book] elicits a familiar fondness for things past. Drawn mostly from the Museum of the City of New York's rich photographic archive, this collection includes work by renowned photographers Berenice Abbott, Jacob Riis, and Andreas Feininger, along with the strong imagery of prolific commercial firms -- including the Byron Company and... View More...
[softcover in dust jacket, both in as-new condition; also includes a wraparound paper band (not pictured) with a couple of tiny tears at the spine]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An almost entirely photographic work, illustrated by scene stills and off-camera shots from the 1998 Japanese film SAMURAI FICTION, directed by Hiroyuku Nakano. Per Wikipedia, the film was a "comedy-samurai film [shot] nearly entirely in black-and-white, paying homage to older samurai movies," but with occasional "artistic and dramatic use of color; this is most noticeable whenever a character is killed, and the screen... View More...
[nice clean copy, faint handling wear only]. (B&W and color photos, graphics) A "Special Lighting Issue," with articles on state-of-the-art equipment, film stock, the differences between lighting for film and video, and other technically-oriented topics. In terms of individual films, there are articles on the production of Wim Wenders's HAMMETT (shot by two veteran cameramen, Joe Biroc and Phil Lathrop), especially focused on "shooting color like black & white," and on two contemporary films shot in B&W: the Steve Martin noir-comedy DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (d.p.: Michael Chapman) and Woody... View More...
[nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs, graphics) A typical/representative issue of this irregularly-published fanzine devoted to Laurel and Hardy; published "in connection with the activities and research of the Way Out West Tent of Sons of the Desert." Among the more interesting items in this 16-page issue are: a facsimile reprint of a 1929 American Cinematographer article about L&H and their cameraman, Len Powers; a discussion of the feature film appearances of regular L&H supporting player James Finlayson. View More...
[nice clean copy, slight spine role, tiny bump to lower rear corner]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the 29th Pordenone Silent Film Festival, an annual celebration of the international silent cinema. Among this edition's highlights were programs devoted to: Japanese silent cinema (featuring the work of directors Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizi, and Kiyohiko Ushihara); the careers of three filmmakers under the Stalin regime in Soviet Russia (Abram Room, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Lev Fedorovich Push); French silent film comedians active between 1907 and 1914; "75 Years of Film Archives," hon... View More...
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