[light external wear, slight dog-ear at top corner of rear cover]. (B&W photographs, frame enlargements) A late issue of this venerable British cinema journal, which waved a bright auteurist flag during its heyday (the 1960s and early 1970s), but which published only sporadically as it entered the 1980s. (The introduction to this issue affirms that it was "the first for some years" -- and it was, as it turned out, the last.) Continuing its "long-standing commitment to detailed textual criticism," this typically advertising-free issue contains the following articles: "Movies and Point of View,... View More...
[slight bump to base of spine, minor bend at top front corner, some abrasions to front cover]. (B&W photographs) Contents: "Czarina of the Silent Screen," an article by Gerald Peary on early filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché (including a reprint of a 1914 article by her, "Woman's Place in Photoplay Production"); "Joe, Where Are You?," an examination of Marlene Dietrich's aesthetic presence in the films of Josef von Sternberg; "Women at Work: Warners in the Thirties," by Elizabeth Dalton; analyses of MARKED WOMAN (1937), MILDRED PIERCE (1945), CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971), SUMMER OF '42 ( ) and KLUTE (),... View More...
(no dust jacket) [spine turned, front hinge starting, light spotting to covers, modest wear to extremities; one-time owner's pencil signature (crossed out) on front pastedown]. (frontispiece + 3 B&W illustrated plates) The author's first novel, set in a small Ohio town. In the words of a critic reviewing her work in 1928, it was "a singularly uncheerful, grim book showing a fine American girl, too sensitive to be a good fighter, struggling helplessly like a person in a nightmare against the smothering, well-intentioned materialism about her. [The author succeeded] in making you feel the int... View More...
[all issues in as-new condition]. (graphics, photographs) A complete run (9 issues) of this short-lived periodical devoted to avant-garde and experimental filmmaking. Created and edited by Terry Cannon, who had co-founded Pasadena Filmforum (later Los Angeles Filmforum) in 1975 and served as its Executive Director for the organization's first eight years, it was conceived, he said, not as a publication that presented lengthy critical pieces and interviews (in the mold of Millennium Film Journal, for example), but as a type of "creative film journal" which he felt was needed, a place "where f... View More...
[nice clean book, minor shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows only light surface wear, a touch of soiling here and there, an eensy-weensy abrasion-hole at the rear hinge]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the man generally acknowledged as the king of movie stuntmen, whose career as a stunt performer and second unit director of action sequences stretched from the silent days into the 1970s. With a Foreword by Charlton Heston and and Afterword by John Wayne -- both men having benefitted greatly from Yak's work on their movies. View More...
[no discernible wear to book, although a handful of pages have short diagonal creases at the upper corners from having been turned down as markers (why, oh why? -- this is why BOOKMARKS were invented, people!), and the former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase are written in ink on recto of rear endpaper; the jacket is flawless apart from some very slight wrinkling at the bottom of the rear panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A collection of short stories by Capes (1854-1918), including "some of the most imaginative tales of terror of his era: stories of werewolves and the Wandering ... View More...
[very light smudging/dust-darkening to page edges, otherwise just the tiniest bumping at a couple of corners, faint red stamp on ffep reading FILE COPY / NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE; jacket bears the same stamp on front panel (also faint), and also has a little wear along top edge, one small pull-tear at front panel foldover, soiling to rear panel, fading to spine]. The adventures of a group of students at Vassar. Rather breathlessly written, but by no means superficial or insubstantial; the milieu is vividly drawn, in considerable detail. (No doubt the author was an alumness; the dedicati... View More...
[minor shelfwear only to book; the jacket shows a little wear at the top of the spine, and some very light soiling]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) The "absolutely hilarious [and] captivating account of that nineteenth-century evangelical movement of food faddists which brought ready-to-eat breakfast foods into every American home and put Battle Creek, Michigan, on the world map." The focus of this tale of the birth of the cereal industry are "the inventive genius of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the phenomenal merchandising prowess of C.W. Post," and also involved are such characters as Dr. Sy... View More...
[nice clean as-new book, with no discernible wear or markings]. (The Society for Cinema Studies Translation Series) Series Trade PB This work of film theory "draws upon three metaphors to examine the relationship between spectator and film text: film signals the presence of its spectator, film assigns the spectator a specific place, and film guides its spectator along a path. [The author] builts his argument on a careful analysis of a wide range of films from 'Gone With the Wind,' De Sanctis's 'Bitter Rice,' Antonioni's 'Cronaca di un Amore,' Bunuel's 'El,' and Welles's 'Citizen Kane' and 'F... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a reading/reference copy only; just modestly shelfworn, but badly stained at the lower corners of both the front and rear covers (externally and internally); former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. Vintage mystery novel about a Chicago-based detective who ventures out of the city to investigate the mysterious "suicide" of a wealthy man, possibly related to an ancient curse placed on a frieze that he had salvaged from a ruined chateau in France and brought back to America to decorate his mansion. View More...
[minor handling wear, very slight bumping to lower corners of both covers, light age-toning to edges of text block]. Trade PB The second Philip Marlowe, the basis for one really good movie (MURDER, MY SWEET, 1944, with Dick Powell as Marlowe), one pretty good one (1975, using the book's title, with Robert Mitchum as probably the best Marlowe ever), and one that changed all the names but ripped off the plot (THE FALCON TAKES OVER, 1942). View More...
[brand-new copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the title page. In her "memoir of upheaval and revolution in China," the author writes movingly of her family's travails over the course of Chinese history from the 1930s to the 1990s. "Having fled persecution in Chunking during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945), the Chens settled briefly in Peking, then escaped to the U.S. during the intensifying civil war," living for a time in Berkeley, California. They were repatriated in the early 1950s to a very different China, following the Commu... View More...
[nice clean copy, light external handling wear, one diagonally-creased upper page corner]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles, tables) A history of the low-budget second features produced in England during the 1930s, which have traditionally been viewed as "the films that American distributors used to bring British cinema into disrepute and ruin its prospects of international expansion," a reputation that this book seeks to correct. The book "interrogates the conditions of their production, the politics of the attempts to censor and suppress them, and, by examining detailed evidence from ... View More...
[light shelfwear, tiny bump to lower rear corner, foxing/spotting to top edge of text block; the jacket is missing about 40% of the lower spine panel, with a large chip at the upper rear hinge, various other small chips, tears, etc.]. This "novel of man's struggle for bread and freedom" is set in Macedonia "during the exciting quarter of a century preceding the tragic partitioning of that country in 1912." The title character is a peasant woman whose husband has been executed as a insurrectionist by the Turks, and whose son grows up to become a fanatical revolutionist (a terrorist, essential... View More...
[very slight wear to book extremities, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown, a few tiny light spots on fore-edge; the jacket shows very light wear at edges and spine extremities, a little age-browning at upper edges of both flaps and along spine] The first story collection by the author of "The Ox-bow Incident." Contents: "Hook"; "The Wind and the Snow of Winter"; "The Rapids"; "The Anonymous"; "The Buck in the Hills"; "Why Don't You Look Where You're Going?"; "The Indian Well"; "The Fish Who Could Close His Eyes"; "The Portable Phonograph"; "The Watchful Gods." View More...
[a nice clean as-new book]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The editors "bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with current analysis, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. [The book] establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationsh... View More...
[solid book, light foxing/soiling to page edges, one-time owner's signature on ffep, library donation label on front pastedown (no other library markings; specific library not identified); jacket shows light wear at extremities, some light soiling/foxing to front panel]. Story of "the captivating daughter of a highborn rou and a maid-in-waiting to the Queen of France. Buffeted by fortune, she led a life of extremes -- from poverty to wealth, high life to low life, joy to despair. Swept into the seething torrent of the French Revolution, she was cast into prison and in the shadow of the guil... View More...
(textured silver boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, essentially as-new with no discernible wear]. (color and B&W photographs) Catalog for the exhibition "Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives," which was presented at D23 Expo 2011 at the Anaheim (California) Convention Center, and was "more than double the size" of the original exhibition, which had been part of the same event two years earlier. It was a showcase for "a treasure trove of crown jewels from the Walt Disney Archives Collection, including props, set pieces, photographs, costumes, and memorabilia from beloved Dis... View More...
[a nice clean attractive copy, book is lightly shelfworn at lower extremities; the jacket is a bit rubbed and very slight faded along the spine]. (B&W photographs) A visual history of the 20th century (well, about half of it, anyway), as seen through the lenses of the Fox (later Twentieth Century-Fox) Movietone news cameras, and preserved in its archives, "the largest collection of photographs in the world" (it sez here), containing more than two billion stills, of which this volume presents a selection of six hundred. Laid in to this copy of the book is a statement on the publisher's letter... View More...
[good solid clean copy, light shelfwear, tiny tear in binding at top of spine; jacket a bit scuffed, with moderate soiling and light edgewear, vertical crease down middle of spine]. This is "the story of one woman's adventures on the other side of the track." A woman of "wealth and social position," Mrs. Colgate decided to devote her efforts to "befriending some who scoffed at friendship -- wayward men, delinquent children, prisoners, and inmates of various institutions." Her field work, which took her to "juvenile courts, houses of correction, reformatories, state and county prisons, priso... View More...
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