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The Hollywood Writers' Wars

By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 18333

ISBN: 0-394-41140-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light dust-soiling to top edge, otherwise a solid clean copy with only light shelfwear; jacket has several surface-scraped spots at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, a bit of wear at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Indispensible, well-researched story of the formation of the Screen Writers Guild (later re-named the Writers Guild of America), based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings and hundreds of interviews with the participants.
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The Hollywood Writers' Wars

By: Schwartz, Nancy Lynn (completed by Sheila Schwartz)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1983

Seller ID: 24647

ISBN: 0-07-055791-8

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[very slight curling to fore-edge of front cover, a touch of dog-earing to front cover corners]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Indispensible, well-researched story of the formation of the Screen Writers Guild (later re-named the Writers Guild of America), based on diaries, letters, newspaper clippings and hundreds of interviews with the participants.
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More Things Than are Dreamt Of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror - from Mary Shelley to Stephen King - in Literature and Film

By: Silver, Alain, and James Ursini

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Limelight Editions: 1994

Seller ID: 18106

ISBN: 0-87910-177-6

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[slight curling to covers, but no other significant wear; clean inside and out]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "The sweep of the book encompasses almost two centuries as it reconsiders in detail such classics of literature as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, right up to such contemporary novels of horror as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and St...
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Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox

By: Sinclair, Upton

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Published By the Author: (c.1933)

Seller ID: 23732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, one tiny dent in top edge of each cover; jacket is in pretty rough shape, with about 40% of the lower spine missing (and related paper loss extending a bit into the lower left corner of the front panel), heavy edgewear at flap-folds, various small tears and nicks]. (B&W photo frontispiece) For what he called "A Feature Picture of Wall Street and High Finance," the ever-crusading author co-opted the rise-and-fall tale of cinema pioneer Fox (then recently ousted from the company he founded and that still bore his name) in order to deliver one of his trad...
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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

By: Sito, Tom

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.2006)

Seller ID: 24561

ISBN: 0813124077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[minimal handling wear to book, a handful of small pencil annotations sprinkled throughout the text (see notes); jacket is nice and clean (apparently the original owner put a mylar cover on it right away), with just a couple of minor wrinkles near the top left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs, cartoon drawings) A history of unions within the Hollywood animation industry, "a unique insider's account of animators' struggles with legendary studio kingpins such as Jack Warner and Walt Disney, and their more recent battles with Michael Eisner and other Hollywood players. Based on ...
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Robert Goldstein and The Spirit of '76

By: Slide, Anthony, ed.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1993

Seller ID: 24704

ISBN: 0810826747

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful, as-new book, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, no. 34) Series (B&W photographs) The remarkable and ultimately tragic story of Robert Goldstein, the first and only American citizen who was ever imprisoned for the crime of producing a film -- a patriotic film, at that, an historical drama set during the American Revolution, in which (surprise!) the British were depicted as the bad guys. Unfortunately for Mr. Goldstein, his epic (the creation of which had been inspired by D.W. Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION, for which his costume-supply business had f...
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Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film [SIGNED by composer Virgil Thomson]

By: Snyder, Robert L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press: (c.1968)

Seller ID: 24004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear, a handful of tiny white-paint stains on bottom edges of covers (probably due to the book's have been placed on a newly-painted shelf before the paint had thoroughly dried); the jacket appears to be somewhat unevenly color-shifted on the front panel and spine, and has a small ragged tear at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by composer Virgil Thomson, to film producer Richard Goldstone: "for Richard Goldstone / a Lorentz graduate / from another one / and now you and I have / worked together / a privilege and a pleasure / Virgil...
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American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing

By: Stempel, Tom

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.2001)

Seller ID: 18028

ISBN: 0-8131-2183-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book itself is tight and clean, with no significant wear; jacket the same, except for soft vertical crease in front flap and diagonal crease at lower corner of rear flap]. The author draws on his more than fifty years' experience of "watching movies and his fellow filmgoers [and] listening to their comments and reactions," as well as "the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing in the respondents' own words," to present "a unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view."
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Film Culture, No. 36 (Spring-Summer 1965): Griffith: I -- "The Birth of a Nation" (Special Griffith Issue)

By: Stern, Seymour

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Film Culture: 1965

Seller ID: 25424

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good+

[nice solid clean copy, light surface wear to covers]. (B&W photographs) Stern's obsessively detailed history/analysis of D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and perpetually controversial 1915 film THE BIRTH OF A NATION (including an 8-page discussion of why the title is NOT "Birth of a Nation"). Indispensible for anyone interested in Griffith or this film; the "Production" chapter includes the author's account of roaming around Southern California in 1946, accompanied by Elmer Clifton (who appeared in the film), and pinpointing the exact filming locations.
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America Goes to the Movies: 100 Years of Motion Picture Exhibition

By: Stone, Barbara

Price: $20.00

Publisher: North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners: 1993

Seller ID: 22062

ISBN: 0-9638653-0-7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book nice and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows only minor wrinkling here and there along edges, tiny tears at rear corners]. (B&W and color photographs) "Spiced with the personal anecdotes of motion picture exhibitors, [this book] captures the broad sweep of American moviegoing with a highly readable and engaging style. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia culled from the personal scrapbooks of veteran movie showmen and others, this book is a lively chronicle of all the way Americans have enjoyed going to the movies." Bibliography; index.
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The Motion Picture Theater: Planning, Upkeep

By: Stote, Helen M., ed.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Inc.: 1948

Seller ID: 24785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[book is nice and clean, with just a touch of shelfwear; jacket has small tears at most corners with a bit of associated paper loss at same, some horizontal creasing along top edge due to having long been mis-aligned on the book]. (B&W photographs, tables, figures) "Thirty-eight articles on the technical aspects of motion picture theater planning, construction, maintenance, modernization, and theater television, prepared for presentation before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers." Following two introductory articles, the pieces are arranged in eight categories: Physical Construc...
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The Last Picture Shows: Edinburgh: Ninety years of cinema entertainment in Scotland's capital city

By: Thomas, Brendon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Moorfoot Publishing: 1984

Seller ID: 23928

ISBN: 0906606098

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean book with no significant wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "An alphabetically-listed description of Edinburgh [and Leith] cinemas past and present."
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The Ruby Slippers of Oz

By: Thomas, Rhys

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Tale Weaver Publishing: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 18079

ISBN: 0-942139-09-7

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

[moderately worn copy, diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover, slight curling to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) This tale of the iconographic power (and great value) of the original ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film classic "The Wizard of Oz" exposes "the clandestine and often treacherous underground of movie memorabilia, [and] may be the film industry's most bizarre account of ambition, greed, obsession, and deception. [It] opens the vault doors of studio treasure troves and also reveals an unbelievable account of marauders, thieves, innocent 'sol...
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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts [SIGNED]

By: Thomson, David

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 24573

ISBN: 0679451153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear to book; the jacket has some minor surface wear and some very slight wrinkling along the top of the rear panel]. INSCRIBED briefly ("To ________") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author "is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films -- their stars and the illusions they create. He explorres a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wanderin...
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Okay for Sound: How the Screen Found Its Voice

By: Thrasher, Frederic M., ed.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1946)

Seller ID: 24578

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[virtually no wear at all to the book; the jacket is lightly soiled, scuffed along the spine, with some paper loss surrounding the base of the spine and a short closed tear and associated creasing at the bottom right corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of how sound recording was introduced to the movies, with heavy emphasis (and credit) given to the contributions of Warner Bros. -- not too surprisingly, since Warners was also the primary mover behind the movie industry's "20th Anniversary of Talking Pictures" campaign in 1946. Although there's no overt sponsorship...
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Before Caligari: German Cinema, 1895-1920 / Prima di Caligari: Cinema tedesco, 1895-1920

By: Usai, Paolo Cherchi, and Lorenzo Codelli, eds.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Pordenone (Italy), Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine: 1990

Seller ID: 24432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[slight scrunching to a few pages along fore-edge, no other significant wear; jacket slightly wrinkled along the top edge (the result of its being just a tad taller than the book itself), and with some careless pen-tip indentations in the front panel (virtually invisible against the black background)]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A wide-ranging collection of articles and essays on the German cinema prior to THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI; published in conjunction with a retrospective at that year's Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Le Giornate del Cinema Muto). Although the cover title and jacke...
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Catalogue de Mentay: Histoire du cinéma mondial sur les timbres

By: Utepbergenov, Mentay S.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: [Kazakstan], Sur Tur Books: 1997

Seller ID: 18146

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, very light handling wear, short diagonal crease at bottom right corner of front cover]. (color reproductions) A "history of world cinema on stamps," apparently the catalogue of the personal collection of movie- and entertainment-themed stamps assembled by the author, a Kazakstan-born actor who had at the time appeared in 47 films, primarily Russian, but had also been a stamp collector for thirty years (it sez here, in French), exercising his dual passion for both cinema and philately. I don't know whether this guy is world-renowned in stamp-collecting circles or not...
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Paramount in Paris: 300 Films Produced at the Joinville Studios, 1930-1933, with Credits and Biographies

By: Waldman, Harry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1998

Seller ID: 20033

ISBN: 0-8108-3431-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [faint soiling to front cover, otherwise virtually as new with no discernible wear]. A history of this French facility, which turned out foreign-language versions of Paramount's films for European distribution. The text is arranged into chapters discussing the films by nationality: French, Spanish, Swedish, German, Italian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, and Romanian.
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Scenes Unseen: Unreleased and Uncompleted Films from the World's Master Filmmakers, 1912-1990

By: Waldman, Harry

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc.: (c.1991)

Seller ID: 20739

ISBN: 0-89950-601-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [lovely copy with no discernible wear; would be Fine but for previous owner's inked initials at top of ffep]. (B&W photographs) Examines the uncompleted or unreleased projects of 64 filmmakers, from the famous (Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, John Ford, Orson Welles) to the more obscure (Gaston Modot, Laszlo Ranody, Wolfgang Staudte). You'll find all the well-known usual suspects here -- Josef von Sternberg's I, CLAUDIUS, George Cukor's SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, Erich von Stroheim's QUEEN KELLY, Welles's DON QUIXOTE and others, etc. -- but also a lot of equally ...
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Filming San Diego: Hollywood's Backlot, 1898-2002 (The Journal of San Diego History, Spring 2002)

By: Williams, Gregory L. (Hennessey, Gregg R., ed.)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: San Diego, San Diego Historical Society: 2002

Seller ID: 15193

ISBN: 0-918740-24-X

Binding: Journal

Condition: Near Fine

[minor handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) A special issue of The Journal of San Diego history, devoted to the city's history on the silver screen. The primary article is accompanied by an introduction, "San Diego Film Town," by Welton Jones, and a chronological listing (compiled by Mr. Williams) of 752 films (including TV productions) that have been filmed in San Diego or have plots concerning the city, beginning in 1898.
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Category: Cinema: History