Film History
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The Films Of Sergio Leone
by Robert C Cumbow
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-251), dscography (p. [247]), filmography (p. [223]-245), and index.
Florida On Film the Essential Guide To Sunshine State Cinema & Locations
by Susan and Morrow, David Doll
Edward D Wood Jr Book and Video Set Containing "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Nightmare Of Ecstasy
by Edward D and Rudolph Grey and Bela Lugosi Wood Jr
Film History Books & Ephemera
CROSSFIRE (1947) Pressbook
by RKO Radio
RKO Radio. Softcover/Paperback. Very Good+. [Hollywood]: RKO Radio Pictures, 1947. Vintage original pressbook, printed wrappers, 18 x 12" (46 x 30 cm.), 16 pp. Folded once horizontally (as issued), VERY GOOD+. Classic film noir, one of the few noir films of the 1940s to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. A story about a serviceman on leave who kills a Jewish man due to anti-Semitic hatred. It was adapted from the Richard Brooks novel The Brick Foxhole ( in which the serviceman kills a gay man, but...
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Sweethearts of the Sage
by Rainey, Buck
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket; Light waterstain top edge last third of book . (not affecting text). Some foxing endpapers, smudges on edges of text . block.. 1992. Hardcover. 0899505651 . Biographies and Filmographies of 258 actresses appearing in western movies. ; quarto; 632 pages .
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CA$55.51
KINO. A History of the Russian Film.
by Jay Leyda
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1960. 525 pages. Publisher's cloth. Fine/-.
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CA$44.00
STATE PENITENTIARY (1950) Three sheet poster
by Columbia
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 81" (102 x 202 cm.) three sheet poster, USA. Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth, Robert Shayne, dir: Lew Landers; Columbia. Folded, there is only light shelf wear to an unused poster, fine.Story of Roger Manners, an aircraft manufacturer, who is wrongly accused of embezzlement and sent to prison. His dilemma is to decide to partake in a prison break or stay put until his wife can prove his innocence. She is doing this by romancing the real...
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CA$208.42
A Movie Lover's Scrapbook: A Journey Through Movie History
by Weiss, Ken
Love's Labor Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Bottom back corner slightly bumped.. Hardcover. 0972463151 . Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Scarce! ; quarto .
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CA$90.32
Cinéma Intégral De La Peinture Au Cinéma Dans Les Années Vingt
by de Haas, Patrick
Transédition Plessis-Robinson, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Wrappers. 9 "x 7¾". 292 pages 156 black and white illustrations. Minor rubbing and wear to the paper covers and edges. Previous owner's name written on the front inside flap. Text is in French. Index..
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CA$138.95
Back in the Saddle Again: New Essays on the Western
by Buscombe, Edward and Roberta E. Pearson (Editors)
London: British Film Institute. Very Good. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0851706614 . A security sticker to the inside rear cover, else unmarked. Shallow creasing to the covers. Some illustrations, four in color, includes index.; 218 pages .
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CA$23.62
Opere D'Arte Nel Pio Monte Della Misericordia
by Raffaello Causa
Napoli: Cava Dei Tirreni, 1970. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Near Fine+. Di Mauro Editore. This is a very large Rust Red cloth hardback Opera/ Art book in Near Fine+ condition with a Near Fine+ jacket and a Very Good++ slip case. c1970 It is a very heavy book printed in Italy. The text is in Italian. The book is very solid and square and in wonderful condition. High quality paper with wonderful Prints. Unmarked, no names. The jacket has only a little light shelf wear and the slip case in Very Nice condition....
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Gangsters and Hoodlums The Underworld in Cinema
by Lee, Raymond and Van Hecke, B. C
New York: Castle Books. 1971. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Price clipped DJ is rubbed. Foerword byEdward G. Robinson. Copiously illustrated with black and white film stills. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 264 pages. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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CA$18.14
Shantih, Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter-Spring 1974; includes 6-page article on Alejandro Jodorowsky and The Holy Mountain)
by Gottesman, Irving, and John Friedman (eds.), Valerie Jodorowsky (on Alejandro Jodorowsky), Michael Hamburger, Christopher Middleton, Cid Corman, Peter Finch, Julio Cortazar (interviewed), et al
Brooklyn: Shantih, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Seventies little magazine devoted to international literature and culture; issue includes an illustrated article by Alejandro Jodorowsky's wife Valerie on the making of The Holy Mountain. Also an interview with Julio Cortazar, a selection of British poetry, and a brief survey of German jazz labels (ECM, Free Music Production). Unmarked copy, minor wear.
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CA$31.96
THEM ORNERY MITCHUM BOYS
by Mitchum, John. Ed. John Stanley
Creatures at Large Press, Pacifica, CA, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Very Good. Inscribed by Author. #116/200 in slipcase. Signed by John and Robert Mitchum. Inscribed by John & Bonnie Mitchum. Dust Jacket with minor edgewear. Dust jacket in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: film history; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0940064073. ISBN/EAN: 9780940064072. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19. ....
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Five Came Back. A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by Harris, Mark
Edinburgh: Canongate Books. 2014. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 511 pages. This book tells how John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler & Frank Capra changed World War II and how World War II changed Hollywood. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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CA$18.14
UNDERWORLD (1927) Photo ft. Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft, Clive Brook
by Paramount
Paramount. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, [1927]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, light crease and rippling from descriptive paper snipe on back, near fine.A portrait of Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft and Clive Brook from Josef von Sternberg's gangster film, often cited as a proto-film noir.Grant, p. 675: "Important precursor of the 1930s US gangster movie and, as such, significant to noir's ancestry." Silver and Ward, p. 301:...
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Moviegoer 2 (Number 2; Summer / Autumn 1964)
by Stoller, James (ed.), Andy Warhol (about), Susan Sontag, Taylor Mead, Naomi Levine, Ken Kelman, Andrew Sarris, Roger Greenspun, et al
New York: Moviegoer, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 72pp, stapled wrappers. Excellent independent film magazine from 1964, with a cover featuring Taylor Mead and Naomi Levine in Andy Warhol's first film (discussed inside—very early coverage of Warhol as filmmaker). Issue leads with Susan Sontag on Godard's Vivre Sa Vie (Poague & Parsons B12). Unmarked copy, light wear.
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CA$104.21
My Life with Charles Chauvel
by Chauvel, Elsa
North Melbourne: Arcadia. 2019. A new book with very slight shelf wear. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 189 pages. In these pages you will share Elsa's dramatic years beside her film-producer husband, helping to pioneer a struggling motion picture industry. You will sail with them to lonely Pitcairn Island, where they face hazardous seas to bring back, for the first time, film footage of the hiding place of the Bounty mutineers. You will travel with the dedicated, adventure loving...
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A Twentieth Century Job
by Infante, G. Cabrera
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571161774 . Briefly inscribed by Infante to Herb Yellin, publisher of Lord John Press. Foxing to the pages, and a short closed tear to the front panel. Slight wear to the dust jacket which has the publisher's price intact on the front flap. A collection of film reviews originally published in 1963. ; 371 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$51.41
Imagenes Del Mexicano
by Dafne Cruz Porchini, Luis Adrian Vargas Santiago, Maria Teresa Uriarte, Rebeca Kraselsky, Francesco Gonzalez Crussi, Gabriela Pulido Llano, Laura Gonzalez Flores, Antonio Saborit, Juan Solis,
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 2009. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 461 pages. Hardcover exhibition catalogue, bound in illustrated paper covered boards, issued without a dustjacket. Texts in English with translations into Spanish at the back. Minimal shelfwear to the edges and corners of the boards, with the slightest bit of associated rubbing to the covers. Else, the binding is tight and solid, with a clean, unmarked interior. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held in the Spring of 2010....
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CA$687.80
A Cast of Thousands: A Compendium of Who Played What in Film, Volume One: The Casts A-L
by Corey, Melinda & Ochoa, George
New York: Stonesong Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Minor scrapes to covers.. 1992. Hardcover. 0816024294 . A hefty reference work spanning film from 1912 to 1991. ; quarto; 748 pages .
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CA$25.71
The Seal of Dracula
by Pattison, Barrie
New York: Bounty Books. 1975. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour posters and black & white stills from American, British and European vampire movies. 136 pages. Traces the history of cinematic vampires to from Nosferatu to the time of publication. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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Raymond Chandler (source), Robert Altman (director) THE LONG GOODBYE (May 22, 1972) Signed revised draft film script
by Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler (source)
E-K Corporation. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Los Angeles: E-K Corporation, 1972. Vintage original film screenplay, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, with many pages of revisions on colored paper. Near fine or better, signed by screenwriter Leigh Brackett on title page, which indicates it is a revised draft dated May 22, 1972.
The Long Goodbye, an adaptation of the 1953 private eye novel by Raymond Chandler, is a brilliantly written screenplay by one of the all-time... Read more about this item
The Long Goodbye, an adaptation of the 1953 private eye novel by Raymond Chandler, is a brilliantly written screenplay by one of the all-time... Read more about this item
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The Complete Films of Buster Keaton
by Kline, Jim
New York: Carol Publishing Group. Very Good. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0806513039 . Modest wear to the covers. Bibliography, illustrated. A list of the publisher's other film titles at rear. ; Trade PB; 238 pages .
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CA$31.96
Gabriel Figueroa
by Antonio Saborit
Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, 2007. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 286 pages. Hardcover, bound in deep blue cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Text in Spanish, including a prologue by Alejandro González Inárritu, and lavishly illustrated. Minor shelf and handling wear rubbing to the dustjacket covers, which is otherwise bright. Binding is tight, edges and corners of the boards are sharp, and interior is clean and free of markings. Comprehensive...
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![(French proto-noir) LE QUAI DES BRUMES [PORT OF SHADOWS] (1938) Set of 2 French photos by Roger Kahan](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/705/681/1553681705.0.b.jpg)
(French proto-noir) LE QUAI DES BRUMES [PORT OF SHADOWS] (1938) Set of 2 French photos by Roger Kahan
by Roger Kahan
Ciné-Alliance. No binding. Just About Fine. [Paris: Ciné-Alliance, 1938]. Two (2) vintage original 7 x 9" (18 x 23 cm.) double weight French photos, just about fine. Grant, p. 525: "A gloomy yet beautifully made early French noir, made as the shadow of impending war hung over Europe." Both show lead actress Michèle Morgan, one is with co-star Michel Simon. Original French photos from this first 1938 release...
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Film Facts
by Robertson, Patrick
London: Aurum Press. 2001. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Light creasing to top right corner. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. 110 years of screen history from 80 movie-making nations. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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CA$13.61
DAVID LEAN, NOËL COWARD DIRECT | IN WHICH WE SERVE (1942) UK photo
by Two Cities Films
Two Cities Films. No binding. Just About Fine. [London]: Two Cities Films, [1942]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white British behind-the-scenes photo. Production company stamp on verso, also sticker of photo agency, just about fine.
Directors David Lean and Noël Coward line up a shot for this classic WWII film.
Directors David Lean and Noël Coward line up a shot for this classic WWII film.
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