[light scuffing to covers, minor edgewear]. (B&W photographs, advertisements) Tribute/program book for the annual ASC awards. The year's nominees in all categories are listed, and special attention (with one-page profiles) is devoted to the recipients of the various honorary awards: Isidore Mankofsky (the ASC Presidents Award); Donald McAlpine (the ASC International Award); Robert F. Liu (the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award); director Christopher Nolan (the Board of Governors Award); and Jack Green (the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award; pictured on the front cover of the program). T... View More...
[nice tight copy with minimal shelfwear; mostly-white jacket shows a bit of soiling]. The author's second novel (but first mystery), "a strange combination of hippie life in the West Village, wealth in Long Island and the war in Vietnam." It's narrated by the female half of an interracial couple, both graduate students in N.Y. (and he a Vietnam vet), as they try to solve the brutal murder of their friend (another vet). Along the way, it emerges that his death may be connected to an attempt to cover up a wartime incident "that has overtones of the massacre at My Lai" -- the CIA is running it... View More...
DETAILS NEEDED. "A narrative that moves with palpitating intensity through the lives of some of the most entrancing presonalities the world has ever seen," this is a somewhat trashy novelization of the life of Catherine the Great, "this low-born woman who stepped from bed to bed to reach the glory of the Imperial throne of Russia." (As one contemporary critic observed, "we expected, every time we turned a page, to hear [her] moan, soulfully, 'Why dontcha c'mup 'n see me some time?'.") The author, the son of Czar Nicholas II's personal physician (who was executed along with the royal family),... View More...
[minor shelfwear only, a nice clean copy; jacket lightly worn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, some surface rubbing at both ends of spine]. (B&W plates) "A NEW TECHNIQUE, in which pictures blend with text to show recent history in today's mirror, is used for [this book]. The result is a review of late Victorianism packed with quick-fire comedy that informs as well as amuses. [The author] has fulfilled the only new adventure left in books about the Victorian era -- a reconstruction through its wealth of illustration. ... Nearly a hundred thousand woodcuts and prints were sifted to find the... View More...
[a good sound copy, very slight bumping to upper corners, light age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has tiny bits of paper loss at several corners, some darkening to spine, overall light soiling]. A presentable copy of Bowles's highly-regarded tale of alienation and existential despair, set in North Africa and the Sahara. A book that's definitely not to everyone's taste -- and if you don't like the book, you're REALLY going to want to avoid the 1990 film adaptation directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, a lushly-photographed package of pure cinematic ennui. View More...
[light edgewear, top corner slightly bent]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) "An Original Gold Medal Novel," based on the TV series starring John Cassavetes as a jazz pianist who was also a private detective (or maybe it was the other way around), which ran for a single season (1959/60) on NBC. Although the book (like the TV series) featured "love in Greenwich Village, murder in midtown, beats in the Bowery, [and] sex on Sutton Place," the show was shot entirely in Los Angeles. View More...
[a nice clean as-new copy, quite likely owned by someone who didn't actually attend the festival, since it shows no signs of being folded, rolled up, carried around in a purse or book bag, etc.]. (photographs, graphics, advertisements) Pretty much a typical film festival program book, with numerous ads, short blurbs for all films screened, etc. The main attraction in this one (in my opinion, anyway) is the contribution by Bradbury, a one-page fantasy-rant about the kind of movie company HE'd like to form, to make the kinds of films he thinks that the alienated over-40 crowd will flock to in ... View More...
[spine rather severely turned/torqued, otherwise a nice-looking copy with only light handling wear, a short wrinkle-line near the left edge of the front cover, and a bit of age-toning to the pages]. Mass Market PB The second Ballantine paperback printing of Bradbury's classic about a future world in which books are imperiled, which the firm originally issued in both hardcover and paperback editions in 1953. (This printing omits the two additional short stories which were included in the 1953 paperback.) Basis for the 1966 Francois Truffaut film adaptation. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy with just a touch of wear at the extremities]. (B&W photographs) Exhaustive, well-researched film-by-film chronicle of the early years of the film musical. Includes credits (including all songs, with songwriters noted) for each film, along with a critical discussion and background information about its production. ****NOTE: Additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy volume; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** View More...
[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB This book "examines the many complicated ways in which we imagine, and talk about, a 'camera,' including such stand-ins for a camera as a shot, image, frame, motion, motion picture, motivation, point of view, and narration. In [the author's] formulation, the lines of an image (solid, broken, hypothetical) taken together bespeak the presence of an apparent 'guide' that makes prominent certain streams of thought in a spectator. [The book] reveals how a spectator fashions various designs that will later be credited to a fictitious ca... View More...
[moderately worn book, with the binding separating between the second and third signatures; the jacket is well-worn, with soiling, shallow chipping, etc., and is stamped "Literary Editor / Please Send Review" at the top of the front panel]. (cartoon illustrations) Dental-themed humor that will give its readers "much to chew over," per the jacket blurb. The author, a California-based newspaper publisher/editor and writer of magazine stories, was also the author of a number of books for children, with such scintillating titles as "Samuel Stomach, King of Healthy Happiness" and "The Funny Story... View More...
[no significant wear to book, but a previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase in ink at the top of the half-title page, and there are small check-marks (in both ink and pencil) next to every title in the table of contents; the dust jacket, however, is flawless]. Eighteen stories by Brennan, reprinted from a wide variety of magazines, with original publication dates ranging from 1957 through 1971. They are: "City of the Seven Winds"; "The Keeper of the Dust"; "Zombique"; "The Seventh Incantation"; "Delivery of Erdmore Street"; "The Way to the Attic"; "Mr. Octbur"; "... View More...
[a very nice copy, no discernible wear to book, previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is flawless]. (pen and ink drawings) Limited to 1000 copies, and SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator on the verso of the front endpaper. Thirteen tales of the "extraordinary psychic investigator, Lucius Leffing," whose adventures have been likened to those of Sherlock Holmes -- including the fact that the author (Brennan) has cast himself in the stories as Leffing's confidant and chronicler. ****NOTE that this book is somewhat heavier than ... View More...
[light age-toning to edges of text block, no other significant wear to book; jacket shows a bit of wear along the top and bottom edges, extremely shallow paper loss at spine ends]. "A Novel of Historical Ireland," set in the period A.D. 900 to 1014, about a paid professional soldier (a "gallowglass"), Ronan MacHugh, "a clanless, homeless young man whom we first meet as the daring head of a band of vagrants. With an old enmity toward Brian [Boru], Ronan offers the services of himself and his tattered band to the High-King, Malachy Mor." What ensues is a "rousing novel of fighting men and fai... View More...
[modest bumping to upper right corner, otherwise a nice clean copy with only minor wear]. Drama about a socialite going blind, the basis for the 1939 Warner Bros. film of the same name, that provided Bette Davis with one of her most notable star turns. Originally copyrighted in 1932 under the title "In Time's Course," the play was first presented on Broadway (under the "Dark Victory" title) in the Fall of 1934, with Tallulah Bankhead in the lead; it had an unspectacular run of 51 performances. The text presented here is described as a "revised" version of that play, which includes some adde... View More...
[good sound book, minor soiling to bottom tip of text block, teeny-tiny bump to upper right corner of front cover; jacket is lightly browned at spine, a few tiny nicks and some minor wear along top edge]. (sepia-tone photographs, maps) "This remarkable volume tells of a life which, in hardships faced and dangers overcome, makes most adventure stories seem tame. Further, it is the only record which ever could have been written of the little-known savage races of Tierra del Fuego and their now-vanished way of life." The author was born on that island in 1874, and grew up in close contact with ... View More...
(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [a nice clean copy, virtually as-new but for a small array of tiny surface indentations at upper left corner of front cover]. (Filmmakers, No. 97) Series (B&W photographs) "The extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who built his major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic gangster drama starring James Cagney. This book provides a vivid, often savage, commentary on Hollywood and the motion picture industry, with uncompromising portraits of Darryl F. Zanuck, Mae West, Errol Fl... View More...
[nice clean as-new copy, the only blemish being a barely-noticeable soft diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear cover]. (Ellen and Edward Randall Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. [The author] covers the highlights of each actor's career to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these progra... View More...
[very slight bump to lower rear corner, some light dust-soiling to edges of text block; jacket has some abrasive wear along the top edge of the front panel, tiny nicks at spine extremities, spine lettering faded to near-unreadability]. Set in a small town near Dublin "where nothing ever happens" -- except that when a young woman returns, after five years in London, to her family's combined grocery store and pub, she learns that "her brother Paddy has got mixed up with an IRA murder and is in serious trouble with the police," a situation compounded by the silent hostility between her stepmothe... View More...
[modest shelfwear only to book, and with some interesting markings documenting its provenance (see notes); the jacket is browned at the spine, with some minor chipping at the spine ends, which are internally tape-reinforced; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath the rear jacket flap)]. (The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bront) Series (12 color plates) Both of the youngest Bront sister's novels, published before her death in 1849 at the age of 29. The volume, one of a 6-volume set collecting all the sisters' novels, b... View More...
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