David Lean : A Biography by Brownlow, Kevin, Lean, David

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St. Martin's Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition. Some minor shelf wear on jacket; weird imprint on first four intro pages. Pages clean, spine perfect.

The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.

There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacular color epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India.

Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By. . ., brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry.

One learns about the making of movies as realized by a master, but also of the highly personal… Read More

St. Martin's Press, 1996. NF/VG+. Near fine hardcover in very good plus dust jacket. Stated first U.S. Edition with full number line. A very clean well cared for copy with excellent binding. Dust jacket is clean and bright and not faded but does have a small closed tear at the top front. Carefully packaged in a padded box for safe shipping. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +.

New York: St Martin's Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated First U.S. Edition with "1" in full number row. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET WITH $40.00 PRICE.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First edition. hardcover. Rear cover dented, else fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp xxii, 810. Illustrated. Index. A detailed biography which covers Lean's entire work as a director, including the classic films "Great Expectations" and "Lawrence of Arabia".

New York: St. Martin's Press. 1996. First U. S. Edition. 0312145780 . F/F, a tight solid sound beautiful unmarked copy. ; 4to, navy cloth, b&w photo eps, b&w photo frontis, DJ, 809pp. , index. Illustrated throughout. .

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing, in clean unchipped dust jacket. As new condition. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean photo-illustrated endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Beautiful full color and stunning black and white illustrations throughout. 810 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. Format is approximately 7.125 inches by 10.25. xxi, [1], 809, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Frontis illustration. Illustrations (150 photos throughout the text. 32 page insert of art quality photos. color insert) . Filmography. Bibliography. Source Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, stains and edge tears. Minor stain/soiling to rear board. Kevin Brownlow (born 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. He has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass- entertainment cinema. Brownlow received an Academy Honorary Award… Read More