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Welcome to our new catalogue about the movies. No movies, alas, instead books – histories, introductions, monographs of individuals and movies, national movements, business, genres, autobiographies and biographies, cinemas, festivals and screenings, essays and reviews, reference, exhibition catalogues, screenplays, anthologies, novels and a poem; and printed ephemera – posters, programs, press kits, issues of journals, screenings and seasons. Or, a little more dramatically, books and posters about: trash-film, L’Atalante x 3, Iris Barry, Alice Guy Blaché, cinematography, darkness, Anatole Dauman, Jean Epstein, the exalted, fantastic, Paul Fejos, Fish Tank, John Garfield, Charles Hawtrey, The Day of the Locust, Michael Hordern, interlopers, invasion, La Jetée, sound, marginalised, minutiae, Townsville Cinema Group, serials, sources, threats, Lana Turner, Vanguard Films, Les Vampires, Zéro de Conduite and Adolph Zukor.
New York: Amistad. First American edition, 2003.
Anthology to accompany the PBS series of seven episodes directed by Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce, Charles Burnett, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis and Clint Eastwood; texts divided to correspond to each of the episodes, combination of contemporary and primary sources, authors include Zora Neale Hurston, Luc Sante, Bob Dylan, William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Macdonald. First English edition, 1973.
From the beginnings of cinema up to "Little Big Man" and "What's Up, Doc?" - the movies before "computer generated effects and visual illiteracy"; illustrated; signed by the author in the year of publication.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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Warsaw: [1986].
Original Polish poster for Martin Scorsese's movie of a long night in New York following Paul Hackett down a series of ever more terrifying rabbit holes; the poster, designed by Andrzej Pagowski, sets out something of the spirit of the unusual juxtapositions encountered during this night out.
Poster measures 68 x 94cms. Fine. Rolled.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 2009.
Over 40 contributors - colleagues, family members, friends and enemies - worked up into a composite portrait of the director and aiming to simulate the structure of the movies from Altman's golden period in the 1970s; 560pp., illustrated and indexed
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: British Film Institute. First English edition, 2003.
Volume one of the director's "Trilogy of Death", "21 Grams" and "Babel" followed; from the publisher's series of Modern Classics.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art. First Australian edition, 1996.
Exhibition catalogue. Before Hollywood, before cinemas, cutting itself free of theatre; illustrated, and details of the movie program shown during the exhibition.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Bologna: Cineteca Bologna, 2019.
Alternative poster for this year's Il cinema ritrovato. 'Apocalypse Now' is assimilated into movie history: the Milton Glaser typeface, the snaking river and Colonel Kurtz's imposing head have all gone in favour of a photojournalist and local extras.
Poster measures 42 x 30cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Paris: CNAC Georges Pompidou. First French edition, 1976.
Exhibition catalogue. Movies' relations with the other arts, essays by P.Adams Sitney, Alain Virmaux and Marc Debard, an early exhibition at the Beaubourg; French text, illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris: Hazan and Musees de Marseilles. First French exhibition, 1989.
Exhibition catalogue. Another attempt to upgrade the status of movies to parity with the other arts, or drawing out the connective tissue between twentieth century artworks, artists and art movements, and the movies contemporary with them. Nineteen essays, subjects include "Futurism and Cinema", "Malevich's Thoughts on Cinema", Joseph Cornell, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Magritte, Francis Bacon, all separately, on the cinema; 100+ reproductions, colour and b&w; chronology, bibliography; French text.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Paris: Gaumont, [1990].
Original French poster for a revival of Jean Vigo's sole feature; no sign of Pere Jules, though his cat hovers in the background; the design, in an earlier career, is by director Michel Gondry.
Poster measures 160 x 116cms. Fine. Folded.
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Paris: Gaumont, [1995].
Program to accompany screenings of the second (?) restoration of "L'Atalante", these as part of Gaumont's centenary celebrations. Background and context for the movie, chronology of restorations to this point, photographs from the production and movie; 17pp., English text.
Plain wrappers in printed transparent dustwrapper. Slight mark to front panel, else fine.
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Bologna: Cineteca Bologna, 2017.
Original Italian poster for the most recent restoration of Jean Vigo's feature; the barge and lovers have been replaced in the design by a close-up of Juliette expressing ...
Poster measures 68 x 33cms. One tiny nick, else fine. Rolled.
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New York: Milestone, 2015.
The two original American posters for Ross Lipman's 'kino-essay' documenting one of the not so unlikely collaborations in movie history. Or, the irresistible pull of Buster Keaton's screen persona on other 20th century art forms.
Each poster measures 99 x 68cms. Both rolled, both fine. The two posters
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New York: Simon and Schuster. Reprint, 1960.
Screenplays: "Smiles of a Summer Night", "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries" and "The Magician"; illustrated, 329pp.
Gift inscription. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges and crown and base of spine.
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New York: Orion. First American edition, 1967.
Screenplays of "Through a Glass Darkly - certainty achieved", "Winter Light - certainty unmasked", and "The Silence - God's silence, the negative impression": the director's chamber trilogy; illustrated.
Owner signature on front pastedown. Very good in dustwrapper with a closed tear at the base of the spine on the rear panel.
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday. First American edition, 1976.
"The Touch", "Cries and Whispers", "The Hour of the Wolf" and "The Passion of Anna" as "a story or novella [written by Ingmar Bergman] and distributed to each individual involved in the film ... All involved read and reread the stories until they understand and develop the essences ..." Is there another example of this state of a screenplay being published?
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English edition, 1994.
The director, in retirement, works his way through his movies.
Review copy with local publisher's embargo slip tipped in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Stockholm: Swedish Institute. Fifth, revised edition, 2007.
Illustrated monograph on the director's work in the theatre and movies; produced to accompany a touring retrospective of the latter.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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New Haven and New York: Yale University Press and Whitney Museum of American Art. First American edition, 2010.
Exhibition catalogue of the pioneer director. Seven essays, extant films, bibliography; 19pp. of b&w reproductions and 9pp. of colour reproductions from her movies.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Paris: Walter. Second impression, 1981.
Pictorial monograph on the Polish director, mostly featuring "Docteur Jekyll et les femmes", and coinciding with that movie's release, followed by a quick run through of earlier examples of the director's distinctive eroticism; preface by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, other texts by Robert Benayoun and Gilles Gressard, filmography, 93pp. Texts in French.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris: Les Grands Film Classiques, 1968.
Original French poster for the first general release of the directors' first movie; the designer is satisfied with what were then, and now, nineteen emblematic images from the history of movies plus the title and two directors' names; a modest visual essay.
Poster measures 121 x 80cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Chicago: Swan Isle Press. First American edition, 2007.
Memoir and fragments constructed from the author's notebooks re family meetings with Luis Bunuel and Jeanne Rucar, the director's wife; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Simon and Schuster. First English edition, 1989.
Examining the mechanisms of Warner Brothers, MGM, Universal and Selznick International from the 1920s until the 1950s.
Extremities lightly foxed, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Random House. First American edition, 1997.
The author's account of the long gestation, eight years and counting, of what became "Up Close and Personal", directed by Jon Avnet.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 2013.
The business relationship between the Hollywood studios and the Nazi party through the 1930s, a different take on "the genius of the system"; inscribed by the author to Joel Greenberg.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1992.
The life of the movie director, from Sicily onwards to a range of movies, the better known featuring a principled individual overcoming institutional or emotional adversity, and finally the director's own struggles during the HUAC period; illustrated, 763pp., including index.
Review copy with local publisher's slip tipped in. Top edge foxed, else fine in very good dustwrapper creased on the spine.
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New York: Prospero Pamphlets. First American edition, 1947.
Around the manner in which "clothes become the man when the man is his clothes"; Prospero Pamphlet #2, designed by Dimitri Petrov.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. 400 copies.
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New York: The Vanguard Press. First American edition, 1948.
The third book of film criticism by the poet and novelist on the greatest of director performers; twenty-six images of Chaplin from 1914 to "Monsieur Verdoux" at rear.
Owner's small signature bottom of front pastedown, else very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: E.P. Dutton. Second American edition, 1934.
The fictional notebook of Signor Gubbio, cameraman for the Kosmograph production company, and who documents the world of movies in Italy during the early 20th century; first published in Italy in 1915, by Dutton in 1926, and reissued here after Pirandello had won the Nobel Prize.
Top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel and with a couple of chips.
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London: Newnes. First English edition, [1937].
"On a Theory of Representation in the Cinema", the author cinematographer's study of the art of camerawork emphasising "artistic distortion as an expressive necessity in cinema"; 200+ reproductions, appreciation by Sergei Eisenstein (the dedicatee of the book) translation by Stephen Garry; Peter Brook's copy with his signature
Original red cloth. Spine darkened, corners bumped. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group. First English edition, 1975.
Historical survey by the versatile critic and editor; illustrated, indexed.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: British Film Institute. First revised edition, 1980.
Eight essays plus an introduction: Christine Gledhill on "Klute", (twice); Pam Cook "Mildred Pierce", Claire Johnston "Double Indemnity", Richard Dyer "Gilda", E. Ann Kaplan "The Blue Gardenia"; women in general, and "the absent family"; illustrations, filmography; first published in 1978.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine
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London: BFI. First English edition, 1992.
Monograph of the producer: pieces by Marguerite Duras, Elia Kazan, Walerian Borowczyk, Pierre Legendre, Anatole Dauman and others; illustrated, singular filmography, including features and shorts; translated by Paul Willemen and originally produced as part of the program devoted to Anatole Dauman at the Pompidou Centre in 1989.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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2017.
Original Italian poster for this many layered documentary which opened in Italy on 20 March 2017 after premiering at the Venice Film Festival the previous September. The poster design captures something of the layers: the setting, the goldrush and, in the bottom foreground, the surviving, damaged films that tell the story.
Poster measures 100 x 70cms. Fine. Rolled.
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New York: St Martin's Press. First American edition, 2002.
Clint Eastwood - life and legend - up to "Space Cowboys"; first published in England in 1999.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Granta Books. First English edition, 2000.
Robert Polito on Barbara Payton, Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau, Geoffrey O'Brien on Dana Andrews, Greil Marcus on J.T.Walsh; twenty others: Elmer Fudd, Warner Bros.' Fat Men, Margaret Dumont, Warren Oates on the cover: the toughest wild bunch.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Wenner-Gren Foundation. First American edition, 1973.
Even by expatriate standards, an extraordinary career of making movies in Europe, Hollywood, back to Europe, and finally ethnographic movies in the world's then more remote corners.
Printed cloth. Owner stamp, else fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Prague: 2010.
Original Czech poster for the director's second feature which opened in Prague in January 2010; the design points to the difficulties and combinations involved in an escape, in this case from an East London council estate and ...
Poster measures 85 X 60cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Warsaw: 1973.
Original Polish poster for 'The French Connection' designed by Andrzej Krajewski in a mosaic of thirty-four black and white scenes from the movie; Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle appears in the top left corner, gets things started, the action takes over and, like the movie, does not stop.
Poster measures 90 x 68cms. Fine. Rolled, linen backed.
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Paris: Metro Films, 2007.
Original French poster for "Fur - Un portrait imaginaire de Diane Arbus" [opened in France 10 January 2007]. An inspired design: simulating a detail from a photographer’s contact sheet, featuring images similar to Diane Arbus’, except for the movie's protagonists in the bottom right of the poster.
Poster measures 160 x 120cms. Fine. Folded.
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San Francisco: Madrugada Press. First American edition, 1972.
'... run down in a rainy midnight movie gutter'; #11/100 numbered copies, signed by the author; photograph of the actor by Elmer Fryer.
Single card, measuring 23 x 35cms., folded once to make 4pp., all fine.
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Crisnee: Editions Yellow Now. First Flemish edition, 1988.
An illustrated guide to the director's last and, in a tight field, most erotic movie; French text.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1972.
Collects the critic and director's texts and interviews between 1950-1967; illustrated, edited by Jean Narboni and Tom Milne, introduction by Richard Roud, translation and detailed commentary, 38pp., by Tom Milne.
Single letter annotation on front free endpaper, else very good in good dustwrapper with a couple of nicks.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2008.
Beginning with an interview in 2000 and 50 years of watching his movies.
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Prague: 1999.
Original Czech poster for Pasolini's 'The Gospel According to Saint Matthew' (1964); a close-up of Enrique Irazoqui as Jesus, either praying or with his hands pushing back against an invisible wall.
Poster measures 27 x 43cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive, 1973.
Exhibition catalogue for a week of screenings celebrating the publisher's film arm. Short history: "... the far-seeking enterprise of his film division which grew out of Grove's acquisition of Amos Vogel's Cinema 16 library ..."; pieces on movies which include "I Am Curious" x 2, "Warrendale", "Innocence Unprotected", "Film", "Titicut Follies"; illustrated.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2001.
The life of the will of the wisp from the "Carry On" movies, "sallow-faced and slender as a hazel twig"; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Sydney]: I.C.A Publications, 1966.
Issues #1-3. A journal of record of sorts: cast, synopsis, short review, percentage rating ('Paris Secret. All the interesting secrets have been removed by the Australian censor. 40%') of all new movies, combined with cheesy colour photographs of female stars and, in these issues, features on Marilyn Monroe and Maria Montez. Issue #1 contains a “Capital City Film Guide” listing 24 cinemas in Sydney (apart from the State intermittently, none of which remain in 2019), 24 in Melbourne, 5 in Brisbane, 12 in Adelaide, 9 in Perth, 3 in Hobart, and the movie showing in each.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. All fine. The three issues
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New York: Museum of Modern Art. First American paperback edition, 1971.
Exhibition catalogue. Co-curated by the moonlighting author better known as an art critic and curator; titled more blandly at MOMA "The American Action Movie 1946-1964". "Film noir", war movies, westerns, all reexamined for common elements; illustrated, checklist of movies, 94pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Light wear to covers, numerical annotation to prelims, else fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. Reprint, 1975.
Hitchcock's movies up to and including 'Frenzy', the various schools of criticism, and, ten years after Robin Wood, no question that he should be taken seriously.
Faint foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Film and Video Umbrella / Hatje Cantz. First English edition, 2007.
Hommage assembled by the Belgian artist: developing Hitchcock's appearances in his movies into a narrative, texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Elsaessar, Tom McCarthy, Slavok Zizek and others, illustrations, though not the usual ones, throughout; edited by Steven Bode, 288pp.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: B.T. Batsford. First English edition, 2002.
His movies and television work including: "A Prayer for the Dying", "Black Rainbow", "Dandelion Dead", "Croupier", and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead".
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: The Grey Walls Press. First English edition, 1951.
A heartless artificial Los Angeles – the dump behind the dream factory – where off-the-wall wannabes come to self destruct, their dreams of fame ending in disappointment and violence. West wrote his merciless cult classic from personal experience while working as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The commodification of beauty and romance, commercial forces, personal degradation – these things are recognisable in the Hollywood we know today.
Offsetting to prelims, else very good in dustwrapper darkened on the spine and around the perimeter.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1988.
What can a producer do to a disgruntled screenwriter?
Pages evenly tanned. Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Michael O Mara. First English edition, 1993.
The life of the most versatile of English actors, now firmly and unobtrusively in the pantheon, who across movies, stage, radio and television played Paddington Bear, Grapple ("How I Won the War"), King Lear, George Moore ("Jumpers" by Tom Stoppard), Mr. Toad, Bules Martin ("The Bed Sitting Room"), Macbeth, Simeon Simcox ("Paradise Postponed"), Prospero, narrated "Barry Lyndon", and many others. "None of his screen acting was ever less than in character, but as he himself was all too ready to admit, he only did it for the money, the locations and the company - all the wrong reasons I fear“ ("The Independent" obituary); illustrated; signed by Michael Hordern on the title page; co-authored with Patricia England.
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Paris: 2007.
Original French poster for "I'm Not There", opened in France on 5 January 2007. One of half a dozen poster designs issued for this movie whose theme - Bob Dylan's public personas - encourages at least that many posters.
Poster measures 160 x 120cms. Fine. Folded.
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Stockholm: 2003.
Original Swedish poster for "In the Cut" [first shown in Sweden on 24 January 2004 at the Gothenburg Film Festival.] The dominant poster design for the movie – Frannie and Detective Malloy in light and shadow – in the vivid red background variation.
Poster measures 100 x 70cms. Rolled. Fine.
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Paris: 2015.
Original panoramic French advance poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel. One of two versions that circulated worldwide, though not on this scale, this is the Last Supper / Viridiana version which includes all the principals while not giving much away about the movie.
Four sheets, each measuring 150 x 100cms., total side by side is 1.5 x 4 metres. Folded. All fine.
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Paris: 2015.
Original panoramic French advance poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel. The second version: the author and director have become smaller, the tagline has arrived along with a traditional central image.
Four sheets, each measuring 150 x 100cms., total side by side is 1.5 x 4 metres. Folded. All fine.
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London: Mandarin Books. First English edition, 1964.
Beginning, 'London. Early Morning. / The city seen from the north. ...'; and sub-titled 'A treatment for a film'; 1/25 numbered copies signed by the author.
Printed wrappers. The original imprint is covered by a label for Mandarin Books, else all fine.
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Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. First American edition, 1972.
Forty-three pieces on movies, both general and particular, from, among many, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Carl Sandburg, Bertolt Brecht and Truman Capote; literary interlopers one and all.
Top edge dusty, else fine in very good dustwrapper a little darkened around the perimeter.
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London: British Film Insitute. Third English edition. Reprint, 2011.
Introductory history of movies: chapters on genre, national cinemas, movements, and, reflecting the mood of the times, authorship, narrative codes, queer theory and 'structuralism and its aftermaths'; 610pp., brilliantly illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1983.
One of the target specific invasions of America by Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley and many others; sub-titled "The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950".
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. First American edition, 2007.
Lewis Milestone, Rouben Mamoulian, Dmitri Tiomkin, Akim Tamiroff, many others, a spectacular group overshadowed by their German and Jewish colleagues; illustrated.
Owner's stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Seoul: Seoul Selection. First Korean edition, 2007.
Monograph on the unpredictable director: long essay by the author, five interviews and writings by the director, critical responses to his work, biography and filmography; illustrated. English text.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Tokyo]: [1998].
Original Japanese poster for the director's enduring and influential short; the design offers a mini-version of the movie in seven horizontal panels.
Poster measures 103 x 74cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American paperback edition, 2003.
Exhibition catalogue. History of the Jewish contribution to all aspects of broadcasting - movies, television, radio - eleven essays, "Star Gallery" of Jewish performers from Theda Bara to Adam Sandler; illustrated throughout; 334pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University. First American edition, 1973.
Exhibition catalogue. Produced to accompany a complete retrospective of the director's movies: introduction by Michel Ciment, chronology of the director's life, statements and memoirs by 28 colleagues including: Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, Sam Spiegel, Arthur Miller, Boris Kaufman, Warren Beatty, Eli Wallach and Dede Allen; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: The Viking Press. First American edition, 1974.
Book length interview through childhood, university, theatre and all his movies up to "The Assassins" (aka "The Visitors", 1971); #26 in the Cinema One Series.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1988.
The director and novelist's autobiography; including the setting out of his position and decisions during the HUAC era.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English edition, 1988.
Edited by Michel Ciment. Collects 25 pieces by Kazan from across his movie and theatre career.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner stamp, else fine.
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Paris: Capital Films, [1976].
Original French poster for "Kings of the Road", the director's masterpiece from his early black and white movies; the design, by H.Watcker, features a vivid illustration of the movie's key elements.
Poster measures 56 x 37cms. Fine. Rolled.
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New York: Vintage Books. Reprint, 2005.
Screenplays of the first two movies in the series; Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are both credited as well for "Before Sunset".
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Methuen and Co. First English edition, 1985.
Interview, 383pp., afterword by Patricia Losey, filmography, 132 photographs and production stills, indexed; conversations in Paris and Rome between 1976 and 1979: from La Crosse, Wisconsin through theatre, movies and politics in two continents; and just ahead of his biographers.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Andre Deutsch. First English edition, 1991.
The career of the stage and movie director, first in the USA then, via the HUAC hearings, in England and Europe.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1994.
The second biography.
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London: Methuen. First English edition, 1991.
"In Enemy Terrain" to "Don't Make Waves", some standouts in between, and his final career as a teacher; illustrated, foreword by Alec Guinness.
Extremities evenly tanned, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1987.
Twenty-one droll essays, titles include: "The Deadline Syndrome", "The Situation in Criticism: Reviewers, Critics, Professors", and "Moving-Tripping: My Own Rotten Film Festival".
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London: Lorimer. First English paperback edition, 1971.
Screenplay with frame enlargements of cars, beaches and wind: popular romantic imagery and storyline from the late 1960s.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner signature, else fine.
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. First English edition, 1987.
Unravelling "The Man with the Movie Camera"; 69pp. of frame enlargements.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 1969.
"The Underground Versus the Taboo on Reality", followed by thirty pieces; illustrated, filmography, 250pp.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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London: Studio Vista. First English edition, 1971.
The French and German avant-garde at the end of World War One kick things off as usual, then on through America between the Wars, Hollywood dips its toe, post World War Two concentrates on America, and arrives at structural cinema; 100 plates, 168pp., indexed.
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1972.
Original Australian poster for "The Freedom Riders" featuring Wayne Lynch and George Greenough. Excluding the endorsement, title and surfers, the design of the poster has little to connect it with surfing itself. The title, apart from appropriating the name of the Civil Rights’ marches of the 1960s in America and Australia, points to the niche that surfing occupied in the counterculture movements up to the mid-1970s in Australia and America, before, as Albie Thoms identified, “... the enormous shift that was taking place in surfing as a result of the fortunes beginning to be made by the manufacturers of surfing equipment and apparel.”
Poster measures 76 x 34cms. Fine. Rolled.
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1975.
Original Australian poster for "The Ultimate Flex Machine", I’m assuming, an Australian movie shot and premiered in Victoria. The poster design appropriates some of the motifs and taglines from the surfing movies and overloads the design with details of the contents. It also claims to be the first feature length movie about skateboarding. Details of world premiere season at Brighton Town Hall, Victoria, 8-20 December [1975] handwritten across the bottom of the poster.
Poster measures 76 x 34cms. Fine. Rolled.
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London: Studio Vista. First English edition, 1977.
Beginning with a reproduction of Rouen Cathedral by Monet and on through a diverse group of movies during a little more than half of the 20th century; and, like 'Underground' and 'Experimental', a couple of books back, staking out of territory and terms; illustrated. Inscribed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: British Film Institute. First English edition, 1977.
Three sections: 'Lesbians and Film' by Caroline Sheldon, 'Stereotyping' by Richard Dyer, and 'Camp and the Gay Sensibility' by Jack Babuscio; filmography, bibliography.
Pictorial wrappers. Sunned and marked around perimeter. Very good.
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London: Fourth Estate. First English edition, 1988.
Thirty-one postcards, all 14 x 22cms., all colour, reproducing posters from movies including "The Party Crashers", "Jail Bait", "Alimony", "Boys Prison" ... "torn from today's headlines" springs to mind.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Sydney: c.1928.
A small bundle of unused stationery belonging to Raymond H. Longford - "Australia's Leading Scenarist and Motion Picture Director" - from his offices at 283 Clarence Street, Sydney (just off Druitt Street), a private phone, space for the day’s date to be entered, and by way of his movies listed on the letterhead, in use sometime during or after 1928. The letterhead lists 27 movies directed by Longford, with a tantalising “etc.”, and credits the literary source for 9 of them immediately after the title.
Ten identical sheets, each 26.5 x 21cms., all unused, beautifully printed, and all in fine condition
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New York: Museum of Modern Art and Harper and Row. First American edition, 1989.
Pictorial biography and movie by movie through his diverse career; illustrated throughout, colour for many of the 1950s movies.
Review copy with local publisher's press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Mitchell Beazley. First English edition, 2004.
Artworks by twenty-three directors including: Mike Figgis, John Huston, Wim Wenders and, not surprisingly, Federico Fellini, Fritz Lang, Satyajit Ray and Takeshi Kitano.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Lionsgate, 2013.
Printed copy of the shooting script, dated August 22, 2011, distributed as as a possible nominee for best original screenplay, 166 shots, 123pp. of this moody, along the Mississippi River, movie; not nominated.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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London: Guinness Superlatives Limited. Reprint, 1980.
Arranged by categories - "The Industry", "Titles and Credits", "Out-Takes", "Characters and Themes", "Censorship", 14 others - entries with a predilection for "first", "longest", "most" etc; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press. First American edition, 1975.
Pictorial history of the movies documenting the inhabitants, scandals, melodramas, makings of, and the mysteries of American studio movies; 300+pp., indexed.
Owner's stamp, else very good in dustwrapper with tape marks on reverse.
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Los Angeles: 1959.
Original American poster for 'On the Beach' [released in the United States on 17 December 1959]. American three sheet, printed in two pieces; the design emphasises the four leading actors, shapes the title into the suggestion of the submarine, the preferred signifier for the end of the world in other posters for the movie.
Poster measures 200 x 156cms., vertical tear without loss along the top quarter of the middle fold and a couple of other nicks at folds, otherwise fine. PIKE AND COOPER #352
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Moscow: 1989.
Original Russian poster for Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in America', released there, according to IMDB, in three parts between December 1989 and January 1990. An original design which avoids any representation of protagonists or setting in favour of illustrating the equivalent of slow motion violence and the speed of the opium den sequence that introduces the movie.
Poster measures 65 x 104cms. A couple of nicks, else fine. Rolled.
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New York: St. Martin's Press. First American edition, 1985.
Thirty-five filmmakers' - including Chantal Akerman, Jacques Demy, Ermanno Olmi, Mark Rappaport, Lina Wertmuller, Krzysztof Zanussi, or not whom you'd expect - thoughts on cinematography, sound, the actor, structure and rhythm, film and reality, processes, the viewer, film and society, and the movie business.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
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London: B.T. Batsford. First English edition, 1988.
A resort of movie history, or what did Rupert Davies and James Mason have in common at the time of publication? Illustrated, ordered by character, 352pp.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Copenhagen: 1948.
Original Danish program published to coincide with the release there of "The Overlanders", charmingly "Under the Australian Sky" for the Danes, on 2nd February 1948 at the World Cinema, Copenhagen. Seven sepia reproductions from the movie; synopsis, cast and crew listings.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Two small annotations on title page, short closed tear top of front panel, else fine.
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Brooklyn, NY: Shake Books. First American edition, 1989.
An illustrated guide to some of the more unusual subject areas of movie experiences through World War Two, the Cold War, and ending with Russ Meyer. Includes the illustrated supplement, “The Weirdest Adult Exploitation Movie Magazines of the Sixties”
Printed wrappers, stapled. Tabloid format. Fine
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books. First American edition, 2004.
Illustrated guide, most from the 1960s to publication, most commercial releases, European and American, c.100 vivid reproductions; foreword by Bruce Vilanchi.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: National Film Theatre. First English edition, 1971.
Booklet to accompany a season of their movies at the NFT, London. Foundation document for rebuilding two reputations - 'Michael Powell is, critically, the most neglected director of stature in British Cinema' - and, first, across the Channel for help - the Bertrand Tavernier and Jacques Prayer interview - as well as 'Making Colour Talk' by Michael Powell and Hein Heckworth (1950), and separate interviews with the two directors by the author.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 2007.
From his birth in Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1905, working in Vienna, Graz, arrival in America in 1935, and 36 distinctive movies; illustrated, indexed, 573pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: George Routledge and Sons. First English edition, 1926.
Movies get serious, sub-titled "A Treatise on the Psychological Factors in the Film", see contents in image.
Original green cloth. Owner signature. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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Prague: 1987.
Original Czech poster for "Raging Bull", copyright 1987 and premiered there in February 1988. A striking reworking of the original American poster: the close-up of Robert de Niro has fragmented and is made up of the other Jake La Mottas: his fights, wife, a knockout, or his emotional state through the movie. Poster designed by Zdinek Ziegler.
Poster measures 85 x 59cms. Rolled. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1996.
A wide net setting out the history while searching for common ground among its practitioners; contributors include Bela Balazs, Kevin Brownlow, John Grierson, Shohei Imamura, Frederick Wiseman, Haskell Wexler, Chris Marker, Elizabeth Sussex, Louis Malle, many others; 400pp.
Extremities evenly tanned, else fine in dustwrapper
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Prague: Aero Films, [2007].
Original Czech poster for Andrea Arnold's first feature, the first of an uncompleted trilogy by different directors inspired by the Dogme 95 group; the design of the poster emphasises the movie's prescient theme of the degrees, quality and hostility of surveillance in the contemporary world.
Poster measures 85 x 60cms. Fine. Rolled.
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London: W.H. Allen. First English edition, 1974.
Combination monograph, biography and memoir: edited and introduced by Francois Truffaut, a short piece on the author by the subject; extracts from an early scenario for "The Rules of the Game"; and an endorsement by Andrew Sarris on the dustwrapper.
Scattered foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper with a closed tear on the inside rear fold.
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press. First American paper edition, 1998.
Twenty-two long, idiosyncratic essays, including: Maya Deren, Leni Riefenstahl, Carolee Schneemann, Chantal Akerman, Julie Christie, documentaries, decades, sexuality and genres; inscribed by the author in 1999.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Grossman. First American edition, 1973.
Screenplays of "Rome Open City", "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero"; illustrated, 466pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. First English edition, 1939.
Thoughts on the cinema: producers and consumers, relationship to, and uses for, Government; illustrated, 40pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Owners' stamp on prelims, else fine.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 1988.
Primary and secondary sources collated – 154 extracts and complete pieces from the Soviet Studio system, 1896-1939; 150 illustrations
– Maxim Gorky on the Lumiere Brothers (1896), a barrage from 1911 to 1939 including: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Lenin, Lev Kuleshov, Proletkino, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Joseph Stalin, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, Party Central Committee Decrees; annotations, index, short biographies of contributors, 457pp.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London and Pordenone: British Film Institute and Biblioteca dell'Immagine. First English edition, 1989.
An exhaustive illustrated survey produced to accompany the season at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989; parallel English Italian text throughout, 600pp., illustrated with images from the movies as well as the printed ephemera that promoted them.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Souvenir Press. First English edition, 1982.
Childhood in the Hollywood studios of the 1920s and his career as novelist, screenwriter and chronicler of the writers' parts within the mechanisms of the studio system; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Andre Deutsch. First English edition, 1962.
Short history of the Cannes festival; notes for visiting, characteristics of starlets; then c.100 b&w "glamour" photographs of the festival.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Columbia University Press. Reprint, 2009.
First hand history of The New Yorker Theatre, Broadway between 88 and 89th Streets, move into distribution, pressures on independent cinemas, encounters with directors, and their representatives, through to the demolition of the cinema, the closure of New Yorker films; followed by 100+pp. of reproductions of printed ephemera from the cinema: guestbook, program notes, ledger as well as annual listings of New York premieres at the Lincoln Center; 352pp., including index; foreword by Martin Scorsese.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Townsville, Qld: Townsville Cinema Group. First Australian edition, 2011.
A pictorial history of the regional film society from its foundation in 1961.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Kew Gardens, NY: Alan Barbour, Milton Luboviski, Larry Edmunds Bookshop. First American edition, 1967.
Illustrated index to all the serials - cast, crew, chapter title for each serial - produced by Columbia between 1937 and 1956.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Scribners. First English edition, 1990.
Elaborate, illustrated, quasi souvenir program, book of the background to, making of, individuals involved in, Bernardo Bertolucci's movie version of 'The Sheltering Sky'; pieces by Millicent Dillon, Mark Peploe, Renato Leys, and interviews with Vittorio Storaro and other crew members; illustrated in colour throughout, 96pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1985.
The complete spoken text of the movie, Lanzmann's attempt 'to make an incarnation of the truth' about the Holocaust. Preface by Simone de Beauvoir.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. First American editions, 2007, 2009.
Two volumes, trade edition. Sub-titled, "Books that Inspired American Film Noir 1940-1965"; collects 250+ books which have been the basis for film noirs - short background pieces on the book and movie facing a full page colour illustration of the first edition; they're all here in dustwrapper illustrations that strike me as darker than the movies that they inspired; forewords by Paul Schrader (vol.1) and Guy Maddin (vol.2); both volumes signed by the author
Small mark on the inside front flap of vol.1, else both fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes
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London: Lorimer. First English paperback edition, 1971.
Screenplay, frame enlargements; a Western benchmark.
Pictorial wrappers. Owner signature, else fine.
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Boston: Little Brown and Company. First American edition, 1990.
The life and movie career of Preston Sturges.
Shadow on front free endpaper where price sticker has been removed, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: British Film Institute. First English edition, 1987.
Movie by movie, position in Russian cinema, pro and contra, and "Vicissitudes of Andrei Rublev" as an appendix.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1989.
First published in Germany in 1981, translated here by Natasha Ward, edited and introduced by Ian Christie; beginning with a screening of "Ivan's Childhood" in 1962. Illustrated.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Black Dog Publishing. First English edition, 2008.
Another shot at encompassing a relatively small body of work: twenty-four essays across four general categories - 'Russian and Religion', 'Art and Nature', 'Music and Modernity' and 'Memory and Awakenings' - attempting to plait the threads running through the director's movies and his life; contributors include Jean-Paul Sartre, James Quandt, Marc Forster; illustrated throughout, timeline of the director, the poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, and indexed; 460+pp.
Original pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1967.
The prolific author's first book; thoughts on the place of the producers and consumers of movies in the world.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a short closed tear on the front panel.
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London: J.M. Dent and Sons. First English edition, 1936.
A zealous figure in early English television whose plan for cinema was for its social functions to be absorbed by television. The subject matter may be repellent, but it’s a good association copy, inscribed to Peter Brook by Gavin Lambert in 1943; Brook, age 19, was making his first movie - a version of Laurence Sterne’s "A Sentimental Journey" – and in an intimate relationship with Lambert – roommate, later novelist and screenwriter, director of "Another Sky" and, according to Brook, “one of my queer Magdalen friends; a dear boy, with remarkable personal devotion, also a very Wardour Street commercial brain, a sense of publicity and much efficiency.”
Original green cloth. Sunned on spine. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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Paris: Argos Films., 1979.
Original French poster for Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of Gunter Grass' novel; the design - a harmonious combination of illustrator and subject - is by the inestimable Roland Topor.
Poster measures 158 x 116cms. Fine. Folded.
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London: New English Library. First English edition, 1983.
"The face of an angel and the body of an alluring woman" according to the dustwrapper blurb, sub-titled "The Lady, the Legend, the Truth", and no mention of a ghostwriter; illustrated.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Santa Barbara, CA: Neville Publishing Inc. First American edition, 1987.
An unproduced screenplay by the late detective fiction novelist; "The Mexican Hollywood Blues", short introduction by the author sketching some of the background and explaining the dedication of the book to the consumate scene-stealer Don Emilio Fernandez; #42/350 (total edition 376) numbered copies signed by the author.
Deocrated cloth. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in transparent dustwrapper as issued.
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Crisnee: Editions Yellow Now. First Flemish edition, 2008.
An illustrated guide to Feuillade's serial, the fastest eight and a bit hours in movie history: frame enlargements, sources for Feuillade in contemporary illustrations; French text.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[Wellington, New Zealand]: The Film Archive. First New Zealand edition, [2010].
Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Paul Maunder, six small illustrations; separate timeline for the production house.
Heavy card, measures 30 x 42cms., folded once to make 4pp; A4 sheet, printed in red on two sides, laid in. All fine.
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Vienna: Synema. Reprint, 2006.
Second printing the same month as publication. Illustrated catalogue plus essays about this most influential of filmmakers, 288pp; parallel German and English text
Pictorial wrappers. Fine
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New York: Museum of Modern Art. First American edition, 1966.
Book to accompany trailblazing season of Von Sternberg's movies at MOMA; the director's autobiography had appeared the previous year.
Printed wrappers. A little edgewear, else fine.
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London: British Film Institute. First English paperback edition, 1989.
Eighteen essays, contributors include Peter Woollen, Jonas Mekas, Kathy Acker, Parker Tyler, Tony Rayns and Gary Indiana; filmography, bibliography, index; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Berkeley: University of California Press. First American edition, 1970.
Charles Higham in his first manifestation in Los Angeles as film historian; everything up to "The Immortal Story"; illustrated.
Ownership stamp of Joel Greenberg. Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Oxford University Press. First American edition, 1978.
Across all of Welles' career, now into a third revised edition; with the missing p.134 tipped in as a large erratum slip.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: HarperCollins. First English edition, 1993.
A very long, discursive, anecdotal, illustrated interview; edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, 500+pp., including index.
Review copy with promotional bumpf laid in. Top edge dusty, a couple of marks to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Little Brown. First English edition, 1996.
David Thomson's version of Orson Welles' life and career carefully avoids the word 'biography'.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. First American edition, 2006.
Sub-titled "A Portrait of an Independent Career", or replacing the notion of a decline and squandering of talent with independence and experimentation.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. First American edition, 2007.
One of its subject's more doomed projects: Orson Welles in Mexico and Brazil during 1941-1942 shooting the stories for "It's All True"; 400 closely written pages.
Original black cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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[New York]: New York Zoetrope. First American edition, [1976].
Long interview with the director, illustrated; translations of four pieces by Wenders: Eddie Constantine, "L'Enfant Sauvage", Van Morrison, "Pop/ Rock Festival"; filmography.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Darkened around spine and perimeter; foxing inside around staples. Very good.
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London: British Film Institute. First English edition, 1981.
BFI Dossier #10. Modest oral history by cast and crew, plus budget, for "Kings of the Road"; interview with the director re "Hammett"; reviews and essay on Fritz Lang by the director; long essay by Sheila Johnston, extensive filmography; 90pp. total.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1986.
Thirty-four pieces, written between 1968-1984, subjects include: The Kinks, "Irritations" and movies - "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Nashville" and "The Lusty Men".
Extremites darkened, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1991.
Eighteen pieces on mostly his own movies including: "Kings of the Road", "The American Friend", "Wrong Movement", as well as "Why do you make films?", "Film Thieves" and "A History of Imaginary Films".
Extremities evenly darkened, else fine in dustwrapper.
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South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes. First American edition, 1969.
A successful one shot at immortality as Pauline Marvin, the heroine of "The Perils of Pauline" (1914); illustrated.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 2002.
From his childhood in Austria, journalist in Berlin and off through his Hollywood career: the polished anecdotes, then every and now again the glimpse of some enduring European anxiety; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper featuring a photograph of the director by Arnold Newman.
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Paris: [1977].
French poster for the 1977 revival of the director's accomplished juggling of surrealism and social realism; reproducing the original design by Jean Colin from the movie's 1933 release.
Poster measures 158 x 118cms. Fine. Folded.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English edition, 1992.
Beginning in Vienna in 1907, not a bad place to start, childhood there and, like many of his contemporaries, a long journey west to Los Angeles and the movies.
Owner stamp, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Cassell. First English edition, 1954.
... though sometimes they are mistaken; the first fifty years of the career of the American movie pioneer; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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