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![Image for The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir [1940-1949] [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/18727.jpg "The Dark Page: Books That Inspired American Film Noir [1940-1949] [*SIGNED*]")
By: Johnson, Kevin
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 18727
[lovely, as-new book, no wear whatsoever to either book or jacket]. (color photographs) SIGNED and DATED by the author on the title page. Gorgeously-produced bibliographic/pictorial survey covering 156 books (plus a handful of "secondary" titles), each of which served as the basis for an American film adaptation during the 1940s. For each book, the author presents detailed bibliographic information on the first edition, and a little background data on the book a... View more info
By: Kahn, Gordon
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Boni & Gaer: (c.1948)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24141
[decent sound book, moderate wear to extremities, light soiling and age-toning to edges of text block; jacket heavily chipped at and around spine ends, paper loss at several corners, old internal masking-tape repairs to various tears/splits, all in all kind of a mess]. "What were you doing on September 13, 1947? On that day some of Hollywood's most distinguished authors, stars, directors and producers were commanded to appear befor the House un-American Activities C... View more info
![Image for A Cast of Killers [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/14660.jpg "A Cast of Killers [*SIGNED*]")
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1986)
Edition: 3rd printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 14660
[minor shelfwear, top front corner bumped; jacket shows almost no wear, "Autographed Copy" label on front panel (which can be removed at buyer's request)]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. "The Sensational True Story of Hollywood's Most Scandalous Murder--Covered Up for Sixty Years and Solved at Last by the Great Film Director King Vidor." Well, true enough that the long-unsolved 1922 murder of director/ playboy William Desmond ... View more info
By: Kisch, John, and Edward Mapp
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18890
[previous owner's name in ink at top of ffep, otherwise Fine, with no significant wear to book; jacket slightly scuffed in one small area at right edge of front panel]. (color reproductions; B&W photographs) Preface by Spike Lee; introduction by Donald Bogle. Beautiful color reproductions of more than 200 posters dating from 1915 to 1965, providing "a unique glimpse of another era and of the extraordinary energy and spirit that characterized early black film." View more info
By: Knight, Derrick, and Vincent Porter
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Oxford/London/etc., Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians, in association with Pergamon Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14940
[moderate wear, light soiling to page edges, minor rubbing/creasing to covers; binding sound, text unmarked]. Trade PB "The authors provide a penetrating study of the short film industry in Great Britain and present suggestions as to ways in which the British film industry can be restored to energetic and profitable life by concentration on development of the short film." (Hm. Wonder how that worked out?) "The contents are grouped under four main headings:... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Bounty Books: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19045
(stiff card covers) [light overall wear, bumped at a couple of corners, small bump/tear at top edge front cover, small bookstore stamp at bottom corner of half-title page]. (B&W & color photographs, movie ad reproductions) Attractive oversize album (12"x17"), essentially a kind of scrapbook with entries for fifty great movie stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, from the silent era (Theda Bara, Chaplin, Keaton, Valentino, Clara Bow) to the 1960s (the most "... View more info
By: Kobal, John, comp. and ed.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications, Inc.: (c.1981)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22210
[slight curling to front cover, light surface wear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A collection of stunning still images from the apex of the German silent cinema, reproduced one or two on a page, including scenes from films by Robert Wiene, Fritz Lang, G.W. Pabst, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Joe May, E.A. Dupont, and others. Features an introduction by the eminent German film historian Lotte Eisner, plus a brief essay on the Gerhardt Lamprecht collection, from... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Jackson, University Press of Mississippi: (c.1981)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19189
(price-clipped) [a bit of wear to book at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket is bright and almost like new, the price-clipping being the only significant flaw]. (B&W photographs) Comprehensive analysis (sometimes including production history) of all fifteen of the Hollywood films based on Ernest Hemingway's books or stories. Includes individual chapters devoted to THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, A FAREWELL TO ARMS, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, THE KILLERS and FOR WHO... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Benjamin Blom, Inc.: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 15414
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice copy, with just a bit of soiling to the bottom edge]. (B&W photographs) "How the Scenario Writer, Director, Cameraman, Scene Painter and Carpenter, Laboratory Man, Art Director, Property Man, Electrician, Projector Operator and Others Contribute Their Share of Work Toward the Realization of the Wonderful Photoplays of Today; and How the Motion Picture is Rapidly Extending Into Many Fields Aside from that of Entertainment." Beau... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ann Arbor MI, UMI Dissertation Services: 1995 (c.1994)
Edition: Unstated ed
Seller ID: 14904
[a little soiling to bottom edge, some minor annotations in first 25 pages of text, a couple of diagonally-creased page corners]. Doctoral dissertation from NYU (printed from microfilm), describing "how cinema helped shape the social maps of modern America by investing three sites crucial to the transfiguration of gendered domains in the pre-War era: the home, a space with which women remained deeply associated; city streets, where women now congregated; and the pol... View more info
By: Link, Tom
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatsworth CA, Windsor Publications, Inc.: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20088
[lovely copy, no discernible wear to book at all; the slightest bit of wrinkling to jacket at top edge of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) The author "explores the area's rich history -- from the early days of the dons to the era of the 'Home of the Peach,' to the recent years so dramatically influenced by the entertainment industry." Although truly a local history, a substantial part of the book is of course devoted to Universal Pictures, which first s... View more info
By: Louvish, Simon
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, British Film Institute/BFI Publishing: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15043
[nice clean copy, light handling wear, minor bumping to bottom corners of a few pages]. (BFI Film Classics) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Critical and historical discussion of W.C. Fields's great 1934 film IT'S A GIFT, including "tracing back the origins in Fields's stage work of the wonderful set pieces from which the film is constructed." (Carl LaFong ... capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g...) View more info
By: Mamber, Stephen
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge & London, The MIT Press: (c.1974)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21959
[spine a bit turned, slight bumping at top of spine, a little fading to cloth at base of spine, internally nice and clean; jacket edgeworn and rubbed, small closed tear at top front hinge]. (B&W photographs) The first full-length critical study of the style of documentary filmmaking that arose during the 1960s, the hallmark of which was filmmakers' innovative (and sometimes aggressive) use of special lightweight cameras and portable tape recorders. "The author outli... View more info
By: Marchetti, Gina
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: (c.1993)
Edition: 1st printing
Seller ID: 15983
[good clean copy, slight bends to top corners of both covers; text unmarked in any way]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This examination of the depiction of Asians and interracial sexuality in Hollywood films shows "how fantasy-dramas of interracial rape, lynching, tragic love, and model marriage are powerfully evident in American cinema. [She] brings the theoretical perspective of recent writing on race, ethnicity, and gender to her analyses of film and television and... View more info
By: Marsico, Jim, and Alan Woods, editors/writers
Price: $20.00
Publisher: [Columbus OH], Columbus Association for the Performing Arts: (c.1978)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12385
[very light soiling to top/bottom edges, otherwise a beautiful copy; jacket rubbed/scuffed, a few small tears, moderate edgewear]. (B&W/color photographs, other illus.) Sumptuously-produced book celebrating the saving and restoration of the Ohio Theatre (originally Loew's Ohio) in Columbus, a 2,779-seat baroque movie palace designed by Thomas H. Lamb, which opened in March 1928 and was about to be demolished in 1969 when a preservation effort was launched, culminating i... View more info
By: Mathis, Jack
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Barrington IL, Jack Mathis Advertising: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18844
(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely, as-new condition]. (B&W photographs) An exhaustive, fully-indexed catalog of every actor and actress who ever received screen credit for an appearance in a Republic Pictures movie, with additional documentation regarding the studio's contract players. Includes a photograph, it seems, of just about every one of them -- many more for the contract players, which included Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, although with numerou... View more info
By: McArthur, Colin
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1972
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 17008
[moderate external wear; binding solid, text clean]. (Cinema One) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A two-part book dealing with the history and development of the Hollywood gangster film (and its offshoot during the forties, the thriller or film noir)." The first section explores the genre's "characteristic themes, patterns, iconography, and actors," while the second section discusses the work of notable filmmakers who have worked within the genre: Fri... View more info
By: Milne, Peter
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Falk Publishing Co.: (c.1922)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22034
(no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities, bookplate on front pastedown; gilt lettering still bright on front cover, a little dulled on spine]. (B&W photographs) "Used as a Supplementary Text in New York Institute of Photography." Directors whose work is discussed or whose views are expressed include D.W. Griffith, William De Mille, Cecil B.DeMille, Rex Ingram, Frank Borzage, Thomas H. Ince, Ernst Lubitsch, Joe May and Marshall Neilan. Also includes chapters ... View more info
By: Morin, Edgar (translated by Richard Howard)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York/London, Grove Press / Evergreen Books: 1961
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 21608
[some creasing in spine, minor edgewear to covers, light stain at left edge of rear cover]. (Evergreen Profile Book 7) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Originally published in France in 1957, this book is described on the cover as "an account of the star-system in motion pictures," but that makes it sound a good deal dryer and more purely "historical" than it actually is. While it certainly touches the major historical trends (and even throws in a two-... View more info
By: Niver, Kemp R. (edited by Bebe Bergsten)
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Locare Research Group: (c.1968)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18060
[moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, otherwise a clean, sound copy, with tiny bookstore rubber-stamped name on ffep, bookstore label on copyright page; light soiling and handling wear to mostly-white jacket, a few tiny tears at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Using frame blow-ups from film prints in the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection (which he was instrumental in saving from destruction), the author provides an illuminating look at the cinema in its infancy. View more info
