Category: Cinema: History

Stars of the Movies and Featured Players

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hollywood, The Hollywood Publicity Company, Inc. : (c.1927)

Seller ID: 22633

Condition: Poor

[pretty beat-up, suitable for reference/research use only; rear cover detached, paper loss at corners of front cover and also corners of first few pages, water-staining to the rear endpapers (and affecting to some degree the last one-third or so of the book); on the bright side, there do not appear to be any missing pages]. (B&W photographs) Full-page portraits of 250 actors and actresses of the late silent era, arranged alphabetically.
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The Hollywood Reporter (March 30, 1935, Section 2): 4th Annual Writers Number 1935

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hollywood, The Wilkerson Daily Corp., Ltd. : 1935

Seller ID: 22636

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Near Fine

[minor edgewear to covers, slight fading along bottom edge of front cover]. (advertisements) This special "Writers Number" of the erstwhile Hollywood trade paper features 22 short pieces of various types -- stories, playlets, mini-essays, anecdotes, humorous jibes, etc. -- contributed by both prominent and not-so-prominent screenwriters (or, in some cases, regular writers in town to scoop up some of that easy movie money). Featured writers include Philip Wylie, Nunnally Johnson, Edward Chodorov, Ralph Block, Melvin Levy, George Seaton & Robert Pirosh, Dwight Taylor, and Edwin Knopf. Among t...
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2nd Annual Festival of Preservation / July 7-30, 1989

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 1989

Seller ID: 10220

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very minor handling wear, tiny tear at base of spine]. (B&W/color photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities. Includes several pages of information about the Archive, and about film and TV preservation generally. The remainder of the book is devoted to program notes on the individual films in the festival, including: HELL'S ANGELS (1930); THE QUIET MAN (1952); THE SIGN OF THE CROSS (1932); THE BAT (1926); VIENNESE NIGHTS (1930); UNDER A TEXAS MOON (1930); THE SMILING LIEUTENANT (1931); THE SCOUNDREL (1935...
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The 13th Festival of Preservation / July 20 - August 19, 2006

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 2006

Seller ID: 22907

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice copy, clean and bright with no discernible wear] (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: OF MICE AND MEN (Lewis Milestone, 1939); BABY DOLL (Elia Kazan, 1956); GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (Anthony Mann, 1958); THE RED KIMONA (Walter Lang, 1925); CLOAK AND DAGGER (Fritz Lang, 1946); WAY OUT WEST (with Laurel & Hardy, 1937); TOPPER (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937); THE BIG COMBO (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955); MACBETH (Orson Welles, 194...
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The Eighth Annual Festival of Preservation / June 27 - July 20, 1996

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 1996

Seller ID: 10454

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, mild edge & surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: GILDA (1946; the cover image is also from this film, with Rita Hayworth); DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933); FEAR AND DESIRE (1953, Stanley Kubrick's first film); ROMOLA (1924); THE UNHOLY THREE (1930); ONE TOUCH OF VENUS (1948); SPEEDY (1928); SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON (1942); and numerous others. There was also a program devoted to...
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The Ninth Festival of Preservation / Aug. 1-29, 1998

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 1998

Seller ID: 10225

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, faint edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: JOAN OF ARC (1948); STAGECOACH (1939); DARK COMMAND (1940); THE FRESHMAN (1925); MACBET (1948); THE MYSTERIOUS DR. FU MANCHU (1929); DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY (1934); LILIOM (1930); THUNDERBOLT (1929); SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963): HOLLOW TRIUMPH (1948); LOST HORIZON (1937); BALL OF FIRE (1941); THE SOUTHERNER (1945); many others. There were ...
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The Sixth Annual Festival of Preservation / April 7 - May 1, 1994

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 1994

Seller ID: 14322

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, very minor fingertip creases in front cover]. (B&W photographs) Program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: THE SEA HAWK (1924); two features by Cecil B. DeMille (THE PLAINSMAN and THIS DAY AND AGE); THE SPIDER (1931), co-directed by William Cameron Menzies; APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, 1929); two Frank Capra features, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and SUBMARINE (1928); a program of early TV films featuring James Dean; THE JUNG...
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The Tenth Festival of Preservation / July 28 - August 26, 2000

By: (UCLA Film and Television Archive)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: [Los Angeles], UCLA Film and Television Archive : 2000

Seller ID: 10226

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[very nice copy, clean and bright with no discernible wear] (B&W photographs) Nicely-produced program book for the annual festival held at UCLA to highlight their film/TV archive's recent preservation activities, containing program notes for the individual films in the festival, including: THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK (1984); THE POWER AND THE GLORY (1933); DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON (1931); MOLLY O' (1921); FEET FIRST (1930); THE NAKED KISS (1964); THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1937); CHEERS FOR MISS BISHOP (1941); HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941); THE INFORMER (1935); NOAH'S ARK (1928); BODY AND SOUL (1947)...
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Walt Disney Magic Moments

By: Arseni, Ercole, Leone Bosi and Massimo Marconi, eds.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editions : 1973

Seller ID: 13660

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [minor shelfwear, very light soiling to covers, tiny stain near top of front cover, one page in middle of book has come loose]. (B&W/color frame enlargements, photos) Following a very brief history of Disney's career, the book presents frame blow-up versions of ten Disney cartoons: PLANE CRAZY (1928); THE GALLOPIN' GAUCHO (1929); FLOWERS AND TREES (1932); ORPHANS' BENEFIT (1934); PLUTO'S JUDGMENT DAY (1935); MICKEY'S RIVAL (1936); DON DONALD (1936); DONALD'S NEPHEWS (1938); BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR (1938); FERDINAND THE BULL (1938)
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Hollywood, with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major [SIGNED]

By: Baer, "Bugs," and Henry Major

Price: $300.00

Publisher: (n.p.), Henry Major : (c.1938)

Seller ID: 20363

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket, as issued) [light shelfwear, a touch of fraying to cloth at upper right corner of front cover]. (caricature sketches) Over 200 full-page caricature sketches of movie people (mostly actors, with an occasional director, writer or local Hollywood character tossed in) by Henry Major, with "Bugs" Baer contributing the captions, which range from moderately clever (Bette Davis: "The discoverer of perpetual emotion.") to corny (Walt Disney: "He gave them all a Mickey.") to just plain weird (Dolores Del Rio: "Only a great artiste can freeze in a blizzard of talcum powder." What does ...
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M-G-M: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot

By: Bingen, Steven, Stephen X. Sylvester, and Michael Troyan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Solana Beach CA, Santa Monica Press : (c.2011)

Seller ID: 24769

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

1595800557 [nice copy, only blemish to book is a faint stain on the bottom edge of the text block (the sort of thing you'd never have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out); the jacket shows just a touch of handling wear]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A different sort of movie-studio history, focusing not on the corporate history or even the films as such, but specifically "an illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the world's most famous films." A delight to browse through, the book makes the point vividly that the old Hollywo...
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American Film Acting: The Stanislavski Heritage

By: Blum, Richard A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor/London, UMI Research Press : (c.1984)

Seller ID: 25298

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a couple of tiny scuff marks on front cover, otherwise virtually as new] (Studies in Cinema, No. 28) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In this book -- the first to examine the impact of [Constantin] Stanislavski's system on American film acting -- [the author] follows the development of acting theory and practice in America from the New York pictorial stage of the 1920s to the Hollywood sound stage of the 1980s. He traces the work of Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya at the American Lab Theatre; Lee Strasberg and the Group Theatre of the 1930s; Elia Kazan and the Actor's Studio ...
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The Art of Film Music [SIGNED]

By: Burt, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Northeastern University Press : (c.1994)

Seller ID: 18139

ISBN-13: 9781555531935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[lightly bumped at bottom corners (both book and jacket), no other significant wear]. (musical examples) INSCRIBED ("Dear Richard / With admiration / and much gratitude for / your help") and SIGNED (first name only) by the author on the ffep. The author, a music professor and film composer, "explores music's significant role and powerful effect by analyzing several scenes in classic films produced from the 1930s through the 1980s. His thorough examination of the practical and aesthetic aspects of scoring a film is richly illustrated by the personal perspectives of such renowned c...
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Antitrust in the Motion Picture Industry: Economic and Legal Analysis

By: Conant, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1960

Seller ID: 25509

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice clean book with just some faint wear to covers and extremities] (Publications of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of California) Series (tables) "This study in industrial economics and antitrust law succinctly outines the history of the industry and the peculiarities of the services it provides. [Such a nice way of putting it!] The author describes changing marketing methods; tendencies to vertical integration of production, distribution, and exhibition; means of achieving monopoly power; and balances of strength in the different sectors whi...
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The Glamour Factory: Inside Hollywood's Big Studio System [SIGNED]

By: Davis, Ronald L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press : 1993

Seller ID: 22808

ISBN-13: 9780870743580

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, virtually as new with faint handling wear only]. Trade PB (B(&W photographs) INSCRIBED to noted film director Vincent Sherman and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A history of the golden age of the Hollywood studio system, drawing heavily on the hundreds of oral history interviews conducted by the author at SMU. Signed by Author
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Hollywood Saga [SIGNED by both William and Cecil]

By: de Mille, William C.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : (c.1939)

Seller ID: 22429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[front hinge cracked, rear hinge weak, but otherwise with just light shelfwear and moderate age-toning to edges of text block; unpersonalized "Ex Libris" bookplate on front pastedown, plus small stamped bookstore name (Larry Edmunds Cinema Bookshop); jacket has a half-dozen or so shallow chips, some scuffing and general wear]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED and generically inscribed ("Sincerely") by the author on the title page, and additionally SIGNED (and also generically inscribed, "Greetings from") by his more famous brother, producer-director Cecil B. DeMille, on the fac...
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The Cinema of Baseball: Images of America, 1929-1989

By: Dickerson, Gary E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Westport CT/London, Meckler Publishing : (c.1991)

Seller ID: 18389

ISBN-13: 9780887367106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean book, essentially as-new, with the teensiest bumping to the top corners]. (Baseball and American Society, 14) Series (B&W photographs) Sociocultural survey of baseball movies as a reflection of American society from the Depression Era through the end of the 1980s. The book had its origins as the author's Ph.D. dissertation, as evidenced by its more-than-occasional lapses into pedantry. ("The Bad News Bears is primarily a commentary on the value of youthful tendencies over adult tendencies.") Films treated in the greatest depth are PRIDE OF THE...
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Ritorno al Tagliamento sul set di Addio Alle Armi [Return to Tagliamento: on the set of A FAREWELL TO ARMS]

By: Gaberscek, Carlo

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, Lignano per la Cultura : 2006

Seller ID: 23302

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[very slight bump to bottom right corner, otherwise nice and clean, virtually as new]. (B&W photographs) A retrospective look at the on-location production of A FAREWELL TO ARMS, the 1957 David O. Selznick production that was the second film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel. The text is entirely in Italian, so I'm somewhat guessing at the content, but the book appears to be a kind of companion piece to a TV documentary produced by La Cineteca del Friuli, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the film's production. It's divided into two main sections: the first, written by Carlo G...
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

By: Gabler, Neal

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. : (c.1988)

Seller ID: 27955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good+ dj

[front hinge a bit damaged (but not split or separated), small red remainder dot on bottom edge of text block; the jacket shows a bit of surface wear, with some minor crinkling at the spine ends]. (B&W photographs) "A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who founded and came to dominate the American film industry. These men -- Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, Harry Cohn -- created an image of America out of their own idealism, a vision that proved so powerful that it ultimately came to shape the myths, values,...
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The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood [SIGNED]

By: Goodman, Ezra

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : (c.1961)

Seller ID: 24567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [good solid book, with just a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; the jacket, alas, has suffered a decline and fall of its own, and is a bit of a mess -- heavily edgeworn, tape-repaired both internally and externally, some paper loss at spine extremities, etc.]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the ffep. Perhaps the first major "Old-Hollywood-is-Dead" treatise, by the Hollywood correspondent for Time magazine. Described in the jacket blurb as a "verbal autopsy," the book's tone is set in the opening chapter, a pathetic portrait of D.W. Griffith in his fin...
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Category: Cinema: History