(card covers) [clean and unused, with minimal wear; would rate Fine but for a small surface-scrape on the rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Small-format datebook/calendar (approx. 6" x 7-1/2"), with great black-and-white vintage photos of trains, streetcars, and other railway-related scenes on facing pages with a single week's calendar entries -- hence, containing 52 photographs. Alas, because 1964 was a leap year, it won't be usable again for its intended purpose until 2048, when February 29 again will fall on a Saturday. (Rats! -- it woulda worked for 2020, but we acquired it too late.) View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, both hinges cracked but holding, front endpaper removed, rubbing/bumping at most corners, surface wear to covers, long-ago child owner's name and address in pencil on front pastedown]. (6 color plates) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Diana Serra Cary/"Baby Peggy" (signed with both names) on the half-title page; the inscription is undated, but the content places it as no earlier than circa 2003. A collection of two dozen fairy tales other children's fare, including some classic selections (from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brother Grimm, and the like) and more then-contemp... View More...
[bumped at lower right corner, small tear in binding at top front hinge, light external soiling]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portrait photographs, accompanied by one-page biographies, for approximately 125 actors and actresses -- primarily Italian-born, although I spotted at least exception: Ingrid Bergman. View More...
[very slight wear at a couple of corners, a few random fingertip creases in rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Program booklet for a film series prsented from October 10 through December 14, 1991, by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and IMCINE. Includes several brief introductory essays, plus several pages devoted to the great Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (a tribute to whom, presented at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, kicked off the series). Includes film notes on the 36 individual films presented in the series. View More...
[modest edgewear to covers, slight indentation crease at bottom edge of front cover]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Promotional booklet (11" x 11"; 12 pages including covers) for the jazz pianist and his then-group, the second iteration of the Ramsey Lewis Trio (the other members being Cleveland Eaton and Maurice White, who had replaced the two previous founding members earlier in 1966). The booklet itself contains numerous photos of Lewis and the group, reproductions of various laudatory newspaper reviews (all from mid-1966), and page devoted to the administrative staff of his company, Rams'... View More...
[very slight surface- and edge-wear to covers only]. (Cine Album 33) Series Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) Nice, slick-paper album -- essentially a Japanese version of a "Films of" volume (albeit in smaller format) -- with hundreds of photos of the Duke (mostly film stills, but also including some portraits, off-camera shots, etc.). The text is entirely in Japanese except for the English-language film titles (titles only) as they appear in the chronological rundown of his filmography that comprises the bulk of the book. (The English-language title and other publication information was ... View More...
(price-clipped?) [boards slightly bowed, top rear corner bumped; jacket clipped at both corners of front flap, spine slightly faded/rubbed, modest overall soiling]. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper ("To / James Donald, Esq. / with kindest / regards -- / 18th July, 1937") and SIGNED on the half-title page, presumably by the author. (The first initial of the signature is clearly a "T," but the remainder defies easy interpretation; possibly "Furillie." The real name of this author seems to be unrecorded; perhaps this signature is an important clue. See the second scanned image with this listin... View More...
[nice clean as-new copy]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "This unparalleled collection of Armstrong's candid writings reveals a side of the artist not widely known to his fans. With idiosyncratic language and punctuation that recalls his musical virtuosity, Armstrong presents his thoughts on his life and career -- from abject poverty in New Orleans to playing in the famous cafes, cabarets, and saloons of Storyville; from his big break in 1922 with the King Oliver band to his storming of New York; from his breaking of color barriers in Hollywood to the infamous King of the Zulus incide... View More...
[nice clean copy, moderate edgewear, light surface wear to covers, slight bumping at top right]. (B&W photographs) A special issue, devoted to horror films, of this well-produced large-format critical film journal. The issue is dedicated to Rouben Mamoulian, who is interviewed herein about his 1931 film DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Other articles: "Drawing the Circle: A Devolution of Values in Three Horror Films," a long piece by R.H.W. Dillard (the three films under discussion being the FRANKENSTEIN (1931), THE WOLF MAN (1941) and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1969)); analyses of THE MUMMY (1932), b... View More...
[nice clean copy with only minimal handling wear, minor bend at top right corner of front cover, very slight insect-nibbling at lower right edge of front cover] (B&W photographs) Inaugural issue of a magazine dedicated to presenting "original documents and critical evaluations that will be useful to scholars, teachers, students or anyone seriously interested in film." Contents of this issue include: a conversation with director Vilgot Sjman and actress Lena Nyman, coupled with a compilation of reactions to their film I AM CURIOUS--YELLOW at the Hollins Cinema Conference, and a biography and ... View More...
[nice clean copy, light external wear only, no damage to spine]. (B&W and color photographs, graphics, ads) A mid-run issue publisher Huntington Harford's ambitious attempt at creating a Life-type magazine devoted exclusively to the performing arts, including movies and TV; never a huge success, its initial large-format run lasted from just 1961 until 1965. (For an acerbically hilarious account of its rise and fall, see "Whistling Girl," a 1978 memoir by Helen Lawrenson, who served as the publication's associate editor for much of its run. An equally short-lived resuscitation, from 1970 to 1... View More...
[no discernible wear to book, but the previous owner has written his name plus the date & place of purchase at the top of the front endpaper, and has also taped there the business card of the bookshop where he bought it; the jacket is nearly flawless, with just a touch of edgewear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Author Arthur (A.C.) Benson's "abiding passion was the diary which he began to keep in 1897," when he was about thirty-five years old. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the count... View More...
[nice clean copy, very slight bends at a couple of corners]. (B&W photographs) 48-page journal, with two Herrmann-related pieces: an interview with Joshua Waletzky, director of the documentary film MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES: BERNARD HERRMANN, and composer David Raksin; and a review of Steven C. Smith's biography "A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann." Raksin also contributed a short piece about the original public response to his main title theme for LAURA (1944): he was deluged by more than 1700 letters (he stopped counting) from people who wanted printed copies of his... View More...
[nice clean copy, with just the slightest bit of handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Included in this issue: "The Economics and Politics of Auteurism: Spike Lee and Do the Right Thing" (Eleni Palis); "Fire and Failure: Studio Technology, Environmental Control, and the Politics of Progress" (Brian R. Jacobson; about American film studio fires in the 1920s); "Earth as Archive: Reframing Memory and Mourning in The Missing Picture" (Jennifer Cazenave); "Liberating the Screen: Gay and Lesbian Protests of LGBT Cinematic Representation, 1969-1974" (Matt Connolly); "Film, Performance, and the Spaces Bet... View More...
[minor wear, nice clean copy, some partially-erased writing in blue ink at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) In this issue: "The Cinema Delimina: Films from the Underground," by Stan Vanderbeek; "Forbidden Fruit: The Nazi Feature Film, 1933-1945," by David Stewart Hull; and "Yugoslav Short Films," by Donald Richie. Especially interesting is the fourth article, "An American Film Institute: A Proposal," by Colin Young, a lengthy piece which represents an early conceptual floating of the idea of a national film institute that would ultimately come to fruition about six years later. (This p... View More...
[modest edgewear all around, some minor creasing in front cover, some red-ink underlining in the Minnelli article]. (B&W photographs) In the first three articles in this issue, grouped under the title "The Growing Edge," the authors tell of their personal encounters with three filmmakers: Satyajit Ray, Luis Bunuel, and Luigi Zampa (the latter piece incorporating an interview). Also in this issue: "Hollywood's Favorite Fable," in which Arthur Mayer discusses and debunks "the myth of the virtuous producer-distributor and the wicked exhibitor"; the first installment of an 2-part examination of t... View More...
[nice clean copy, a bit of wear along spine, minor surface wear to covers]. (B&W photographs) The primary feature of this issue is a 20-page survey of "Special Features on Film Scholarship," including brief surveys of the resources of the major U.S. repositories of archival film history materials. Articles: "Hitchcock's World," by Charles Higham; "The Craft of Norman McLaren," by Ernest Callenbach; and "'Marienbadism' and the New Italian Directors," by Fernaldo di Giammatteo. Books reviewed include Gordon Hendricks's groundbreaking "The Edison Motion Picture Myth." View More...
[minor paper loss to spine covering at both ends, pages tanned but not brittle, typical edgewear to yapped covers (tiny nicks, bends), small nick at left edge of front cover]. (pen and ink illustrations) Novelettes: "Satan Sees Red," a Satan Hall story (Carroll John Daly); "A Private Affair," a Seor Lobo story (Erle Stanley Gardner). Short stories: "The Other Fellow's Game" (Maurice Beam); "The Expert" (Donald Barr Chidsey). Serial: "The Shadow Man," Part 5 of 6. True stories: "I Looted Broadway," Part 6 (Al Lewis and Howard McLellan); "Illustrated Crimes: Caught by Radio" (Stookie Allen). ... View More...
[pages tanned but not brittle, typical edgewear to yapped covers, 1.5" closed tear at bottom of front cover, about 2" separation of cover front spine at top front hinge, soft vertical crease in front cover]. (pen and ink illustrations) Novelette: "Satan's Mark" (Carroll John Daly). Short stories: "The Yellow Rat" (Sidney Herschel Small); "Death Waits" (J. Allan Dunn); "Touchdown" (Henry La Cossitt); "Death Rides at Anchor" (Howard Finney, Jr.); "Hit and Run" (Charlotte Dockstader). Serial: "The House of Creeping Horror," Part 3 of 5 (George F. Worts). True stories: "Illustrated Crimes: The... View More...
[pages tanned but not brittle, typical edgewear to yapped covers, about 2" loss of paper covering at top of spine, light soiling to rear cover]. (pen and ink illustrations) Complete short novel: "Behind the Curtain," a Mr. Strang story (Carroll John Daly). Short stories: "Shot with Indigo" (H.W. Guernsey); "The Nervous Corpse" (Allen Saunders); "Clue of the Hard-Boiled Eggs" (Edward Parrish Ware); "Dead Line" (Irma Benjamin). Serial: "The Eel Walks," Part 2 of 2 (Joel Townsley Rogers). True stories: "Illustrated Crimes: The Jealous Killers of Glendale, N.Y." (about Ernest and Marie Vetter) (... View More...
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