Condition: Fine in Fine dj

Sumurai Foto: All Photographs Taken from the Motion Graphic "SF Samurai Fiction"

By: (Nakano, Hiroyuki)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Tokyo FM Books : (c.1998)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26695

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[softcover in dust jacket, both in as-new condition; also includes a wraparound paper band (not pictured) with a couple of tiny tears at the spine]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An almost entirely photographic work, illustrated by scene stills and off-camera shots from the 1998 Japanese film SAMURAI FICTION, directed by Hiroyuku Nakano. Per Wikipedia, the film was a "comedy-samurai film [shot] nearly entirely in black-and-white, paying homage to older samurai movies," but with occasional "artistic and dramatic use of color; this is most noticeable whenever a character is killed, and the screen...
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Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990

By: Agee, William C.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24466

ISBN-13: 9780914357650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a beautiful brand-new copy that had been in its original shrinkwrap until it was removed by us to confirm the edition; both the book and the translucent jacket are in pristine condition, with the jacket now encased in a new mylar cover]. (color plates, B&W photographs) Publication issued to accompany the exhibition of the same name, organized by the author (William Agee) and presented at The Geffen Temporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from March 7 through July 25, 1999. Includes a chronology of the life and work of the artist (1923-1994) and a selected bibliography. **...
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Confessions of a Hollywood Director

By: Bare, Richard L. (edited by Jerry Roberts)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 89) Series (B&W photographs) Memoirs of a filmmaker who directed, by his own count, 421 TV films, 92 short subjects, and a dozen feature films -- "none of which are as interesting as the story you are about to read." Although he's refreshingly modest about the aesthetic value of his work, his immortality as an auteur is assured by his solo helming of all six season (170 episodes) of "Green Acres," an absolute masterpiece of mid-century American absurdist cornpone surrealist humor. Ask anybody.
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W.S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928), and Other Van Dyke on Van Dyke

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : (c.1996)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[as-new, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating little volume, the centerpiece of which -- the so-called "journal" -- is actually an edited version of a four lengthy letters, sent over the course of several months from the Tahiti location of WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS by its eventual director, W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke II, to his then girlfriend (and sometime script supervisor) Josephine Chippo, back in Los Angeles. The letters -- about equally divided between on-location reportage and pining-for-you expressions of his devotion -- were discovered ...
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Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies

By: Buhle, Paul, and Dave Wagner

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The New Press : (c.2002

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket; apparently a review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in]. (B&W photographs) In this, "the first comprehensive book about the Hollywood Left, [the authors] describe the vibrant community in Hollywood that helped create the classics of American film, from the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s. The authors trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers on the Left, along with the often decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age. Full o...
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Any Old Iron [SIGNED]

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson : (c.1989)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 16923

ISBN-13: 9780091738426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[both book and jacket are in flawless, as-new condition]. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Comic novel about the modern-day rediscovery of King Arthur's sword, Excalibur. Signed by Author
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Dreamers in Dream City

By: Chandler, Harry Brant

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Santa Monica CA, Angel City Press : 2009

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20190

ISBN-13: 9781883318840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely, as-new book, with no discernible wear to either the book or the dust jacket]. (color photographs)
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Come Watch the Sun Go Home [SIGNED]

By: Chen Chen (pseud.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Marlowe & Company : (c.1998)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[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...
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Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole

By: Cole, Lester

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palo Alto CA, Ramparts Press : (c.1981)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a pristine copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimile documents) Memoir of the screenwriter and committed social activist (and Communist Party member), who eventually became one of the "Hollywood Ten," jailed for contempt of Congress.
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Men's Adventure Magazines in Postwar America: The Rich Oberg Collection

By: Collins, Max Allan, and George Hagenauer

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hong Kong/Kln/London/Los Angeles/Madrid/Paris/Tokyo, Taschen : (c.2008)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[very nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (color and B&W illustrations, facsimiles) An extensively-illustrated history of American men's adventure magazines. Supplementing the narrative history (with text in English, French and German) are color reproductions of hundreds of lurid magazine covers and artwork from scores of magazines, with titles like "Man to Man," "Man's Action," and "Real Men." **** NOTE that additional shipping costs will apply for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote befor...
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Warren Oates: A Wild Life

By: Compo, Susan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky : (c.2009)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Screen Classics) Series (B&W photographs) A biography of "one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s." ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****
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Taken In

By: Coyle, Beverly

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17638

ISBN-13: 9780670863983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a lovely, fresh, as-new copy]. This wonderful writer's third book, a superb novel about a family with relatively ordinary problems of its own which become exponentially more complicated as they get involved, for the best of motives, with a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend.
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Tony Curtis: The Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: Curtis, Tony, and Barry Paris

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc. : (c.1993)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED (with only the inscribee's first name) and SIGNED by the author, on the verso of the half-title page (with some bleed-through). Bernie Schwartz of the Bronx tells his story, "from his boyhood in the Depression-era New York streets -- back when he was a fast-footed, quick-witted kid, the son of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants -- through forty years as an eminent screen idol. [The book] pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw, uncensored, street-honed New York bite...
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Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies

By: Danly, Linda, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Latham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 1999

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23666

ISBN-13: 9780810835825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 66) Series (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive survey of the career of one of Hollywood's most oustanding composers of film music, [which] provides numerous perspectives, ranging from the personal to the critical, about one of the most important musical figures of the twentieth century. The bulk of the book consists of a transcript of the American Film Institute's oral history interview with Friedhofer himself, conducted by Irene Kahn Atkins in 1974. The book also contains: an introduction by Tony Thomas; ...
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London Society Fashion 1905-1925: The Wardrobe of Heather Firbank

By: Davies-Strodder, Cassie, Jenny Lister, and Lou Taylor

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, V&A Publishing : 2015

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a lovely copy, brand-spanking-new (I had to remove the original publisher's shrinkwrap in order to catalogue it)]. (B&W and color photographs, facsimiles) A beautifully-produced review of Heather Firbank's "extensive wardrobe of fine clothes, bought from London's very best dressmakers and tailors," which she had packed away in 1926 and which "lay undiscovered for the next thirty years, until they were given to the [Victoria and Albert Museum] after her death, laying the groundwork for the Museum's world-famous collection. This trove of early twentieth-century fashion showcases the exquisite ...
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Dracula: The Vampire Play

By: Deane, Hamilton, and John L. Balderston

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. : [1979]

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 23981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful copy, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. "The Vampire Play," really? Like they have to remind us what Dracula's gig was? This printing ties in with the 1977-80 Broadway revival of the old chestnut, which starred a raven-tressed Frank Langella (pictured on the front jacket panel) biting the scenery as the immortal Count (and earning a Tony nomination in the process). Although there are no photos bound into the text, this copy includes the original Curtain Time (book club) flyer, which features four stills, plus a (not-very-good) reproduction of the Edward Gorey-illust...
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The Holocaust in American Film [SIGNED]

By: Doneson, Judith E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York/Jerusalem, The Jewish Publication Society : 1987

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23655

ISBN-13: 9780827602816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely clean copy (except for author inscription), with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "An investigation into the ways in which specific films influenced and reflected the Americanization of the Holocaust, and how film has helped to disseminate the event into the popular consciousness." Among the films discussed in depth are Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (to which an entire chapter is devoted), CABARET, JULIA, THE PAWNBROKER and the TV miniseries HOLOCAUST. Notes; bibliography; ...
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Horizon Bound on a Bicycle: The Autobiography of Eyvind Earle

By: Earle, Eyvind

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Earle and Bane : (c.1990)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25920

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, drawings) "Over the past 50 years Eyvind Earle has produced an extraordinary body of work, including film, poetry, animation, watercolors, serigraphs and oil paintings. In fact, his contribution to the world of art in the 20th century is too vast to take in all at once. [This book is] a definitive record of an important American painter, whose story unfolds against the dramatic landscape of Depression era America. Here is the story of a young struggling artist with a relentless dream. An explosiv...
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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America [SIGNED]

By: Flamming, Douglas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, University of California Press : (c.2005)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, appears unread, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To _____ / Blessings & Peace") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "This splendid book, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community and political activism during the city'...
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Reporters: Memoirs of a Young Newspaperman [SIGNED]

By: Fowler, Will

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Malibu CA, Roundtable Publishing, Inc. : (c.1991)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22642

ISBN-13: 9780915677610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[beautiful copy, no significant wear to either book or jacket] (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To ________ -- A friend I am fortunate / enough to have. / Fondly, / Will Fowler / 1993." Colorful memoir by the son of Gene Fowler, who earned his own place in L.A. noir-history early in his career by being the first reporter on the scene of the Black Dahlia murder. Later, as a feature writer for the Los Angeles Herald & Express, he "covered Hollywood's most torrid love affairs and killings." The book is primarily about his career as a...
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