Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection

By: (International Center of Photography) Handy, Ellen, curator

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company : (c.1999)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13293

ISBN-13: 9780821226254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is tight, clean, as-new; jacket shows just a bit of surface handling wear]. (B&W/color photographs) "Published on the occasion of ICP's twenty-fifth anniversary, [this book] provides an innovative look at the diversity of the photographic medium. The selection displays great strength in documentary photography and photojournalism, as well as a marvelous range of fine art, commercial, and vernacular photography. It presents the work of such masters as Richard Avedon, Weegee, Cindy Sherman, Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfredo Jaar, Ansel Ad...
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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes

By: Agee, James

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Fordham University Press : (c.2005)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26923

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean as-new copy, with just a touch of surface wear to the jacket]. The first stand-alone publication of an essay on the borough, written by Agee on assignment for Fortune magazine in 1939, but rejected by its editors and unpublished until it appeared in Esquire magazine in 1968. Jonathan Lethem, in his Preface, calls it "this astonishing secret text which like the heart of the borough itself throbs in raw shambolic splendor, never completely discovered, impossible to mistake."
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The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes [SIGNED]

By: Aldridge, Alan

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22430

ISBN-13: 9780500093429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely copy, no discernible wear to book, the jacket showing only tiny traces of edge- and surface-wear]. (color illustrations, photographs, etc.) INSCRIBED ("For ____") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, with an additional small drawing of a spider dangling from the last letter of his signature. "This illustrated autobiography charts Aldridge's life as a graphic entertainer, covering his whole exuberant career from 1963 up to the present." The book incorporates hundreds of reproductions of his "imaginative designs and intoxicating, colour-rich images [which] captured and dreams and hal...
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Brooklyn Remembered: The 1955 Days of the Dodgers

By: Allen, Maury

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Champaign IL, Sports Publishing L.L.C. : (c.2005)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket is also quite nice, with just a touch of wrinkling along the top edge of the front panel, and a hint of surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) This book captures "the emotion, the drama and the sweet reverie of what many baseball people and fans consider the greatest sports triumph ever, the 1955 Brooklyn [World] Series win over the Yankees." The author has drawn on interviews with "all of the 11 surviving members of that historical baseball team, [who] have contributed their poignant and personal recollections of that season," as wel...
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Silent Film Sound

By: Altman, Rick

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press : (c.2004)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice clean copy, with no discernible wear to book; jacket lightly scuffed on rear panel]. (Film and Culture) Series (B&W photographs, facsimiles) This book "reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive original research and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories of this period in film and reveals the complexity and swiftly changing nature of American silent cinema. Beginning with sound practices before cinema's first decade and continuing through to the more familiar sound pr...
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South Pasadena: A Centennial History 1888-1988. Second Edition with Chronology: 1988-2008 [SIGNED]

By: Apostol, Jane

Price: $50.00

Publisher: South Pasadena CA, Friends of the South Pasadena Library, Inc. : (c.2008)

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 27511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, essentially as new, with just a touch of fading to the dust jacket along the flap-folds]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) "This book tells the story of South Pasadena from mission trails to freeways, from the first adobe to the new civic center. It also traces the history of the city's public schools, the library, and the churches; and it describes the many cultural heritage landmarks. Each chapter is followed by a chronology of important events. The second edition retains the original [1987] Ward Ritchie design, as well as all the original text and illustrations. It also include...
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Fritz Lang. His Life and Work. Photographs and Documents.

By: Aurich, Rolf, Wolfgang Jacobsen and Cornelius Schnauber, eds.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Berlin, Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche Kinemathek / jovis Verlag GmbH : (c.2001)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, no discernible wear to book at all; the jacket has only a teensy bit of dog-earing at the spine ends and at the upper left corner of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Massive, lavishly-illustrated volume issued in conjunction with a retrospective of Fritz Lang's films. With text (in parallel columns throughout) in German, English and French. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this large heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.****
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Come to My Wedding

By: Ayres, Ruby M.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1933)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 18947

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[virtually no wear at all, remarkably nice condition considering the cheapness of its production; jacket is similarly nice, with just a touch of rubbing at the spine ends]. "Gyp Farrow as her flighty, beautiful young mother's one mistake. When she was thrust into a gay, cocktail-drinking, night-club world, she tried hard to suppress her embarrassing truthfulness and to veil her serious young gaze that had a way of awakening the protective instincts of the most hardened bachelors-about-town. Then she met David with whom she had played 'come-to-my-wedding' ten years ago."
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One Reel a Week

By: Balshofer, Fred J., and Arthur C. Miller, with the assistance of Bebe Bergsten

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a very nice copy, no discernible wear at all to the book; the jacket shows only minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) Joint reminiscences of the early days of filmmaking by two veteran cinematographers whose "careers span the crucial period from the beginning to the consolidation of the Hollywood industry after the introduction of sound. From the personal stories of the two men (giving in alternating chapters with a charming cross-cutting effect) emerges an intimate account of the infant industry: the ruthless commercial piracy taken for granted by all, the attempt by a small group of m...
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Cold in Summer [SIGNED]

By: Barrett, Tracy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 10015

ISBN-13: 9780805070521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, no discernible wear, NO remainder or other marks; jacket shows faint surface wear]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "It's bad enough that Ariadne's family has just moved to a tiny boring town in the middle of nowhere. What's worse is that she's far away from her best friend. The kids in the new town seem nice enough, yet none of them really understand how lost and unhappy Ariadne feels. None, that is, but May Butler. She's an odd, quiet person who wears the strangest old-fashioned clothes and has a spooky habit of appearing and disappearin...
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Inside Warner Bros. (1935-1951)

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly rubbed, with a vertical wrinkle at the bottom of the front panel, some minor wear along the top edge, and a tiny closed tear at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating compilation of memos and other correspondence from the Warner Bros. files -- primary documents that "recapture the conception, the second thoughts, the inspirations, doubts, conflicts, and triumphs that produced some of the most popular films ever made," including CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE ADVE...
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Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grover Press : 1993

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket shows only some extremely light wear along the top edge (effectively concealed inside a new mylar protector)]. (B&W photographs) In this brilliantly-edited and annotated selection of Hollywood studio memos, film historian Rudy Behlmer does for 20th Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck what he had done for the equally legendary producer David O. Selznick more than twenty years earlier. Zanuck, although not as prodigiously wordy as Selznick had been, was also a helluva memo-writer, and among all the studio heads of Hollywood's Golden A...
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The Sea Hawk

By: Behlmer, Rudy, ed.; screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Madison WI, The University of Wisconsin Press : 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean as-new book, with no wear whatsoever; the jacket would also be Fine but for a long vertical crease in the front flap]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, whi...
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Robin Hood: An Historical Enquiry

By: Bellamy, John

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press : (c.1985)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is in perfect condition, tight and clean; jacket shows just a touch of surface wear]. "Robin Hood: man or myth? Spirit of the woods, literary invention or historical reality? .... In this book one of the most authoritative scholars on the period has taken a fresh look at the evidence for an historical Robin Hood, and has come up with some remarkably plausible conclusions about his identity, that of his famous adversary the Sheriff of Nottingham, and even of some of Robin's companions."
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When the Smoke Hit the Fan [SIGNED]

By: Bellamy, Ralph

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1979

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 24613

ISBN-13: 9780385148603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[no discernible wear to book; jacket has a tiny nick (insect-nibble) at top corner of front flap, short horizontal crease at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To Ann Corio / Thanks for your contribution / I hope it brings back memories") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; also laid in is a 5x7 portrait photo of Bellamy. "A reminiscence of the theater, movies, and T.V.," by the veteran actor who morphed gradually and gracefully from a light leading man in Hollywood's Golden Age to a stalwart TV supporting/character actor (including, alas, guest-star gigs...
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Lindbergh [SIGNED]

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1998)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 23230

ISBN-13: 9780399144493

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows a teensy bit of handling wear, effectively rendered invisible by new mylar jacket protector (included)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For _________ / A. Scott Berg / 1999." Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of "The Lone Eagle," "one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history." Signed by Author
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I, Billy Shakespeare!

By: Blatty, William Peter

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy with no discernible wear; jacket very clean and attractive, with a short closed tear and associated creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) "A wildly amusing first-person narrative (from tapes) by a phantom William Shakespeare, in which the Bard of Avon's ghost discusses many things -- particularly the charges that he didn't write the plays. He demolishes Marlowe, the Baconian Society, Ben Jonson, and others. He also proves, for some readers, that Queen Elizabeth was the real playwright." Blatty's third (and scarcest) book.
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Ernie: The Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: Borgnine, Ernest

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing Corp. : 2008

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely copy, with no discernible wear to book; jacket has a couple of tiny blemishes at lower left corner of front panel, effectively concealed by new mylar jacket protector]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To ____ / G'Bless / Ernest Borgnine." The Academy Award-winning actor has penned "a fascinating memoir -- filled with secrets, well-remembered details, and never-before-told stories." Signed by Author
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The McGuffin

By: Bowen, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press : (c.1984)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 15460

ISBN-13: 9780871130181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean unread book, with no discernible wear; jacket shows very light wear at extremities, faint rubbing/soiling]. Mystery novel about a middle-aged, divorced film reviewer who finds himself involved in what seems to be "a real-life replay of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'." According to the jacket blurb, the book "is both a potent psychological thriller and a game -- it offers the experience of a Hitchcock movie, not from outside, which is the way we usually experience it, but from inside, from the point of view of one of the characters." (It would seem to me th...
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Keep It Real [SIGNED]

By: Bryan, Bill

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madison WI, Bleak House Books : (c.2007)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 16121

ISBN-13: 9781932557374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear; jacket shows faint surface handling wear, short diagonal crease in rear flap]. SIGNED and DATED by the author on the title page. Satirical novel about an investigative reporter-turned-reality-show producer who uses the show to investigate the disappearance of a gangsta rapper's girlfriend. The author's debut novel. Signed by Author
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Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj