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AN UNSPEAKABLE BETRAYAL. Selected Writings. With a Foreword by Jean-Claude Carrière. Translations from the Spanish and French by Garrett White (proof copy)
Edition: First edition in English
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Octavo, 263 pp. UNCORRECTED PROOF in white non-pictorial card covers printed in black. Fine copy. The book "proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death."
Book ID: 11833More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CASINO JACK: a screenplay
Edition: First printing
Holstein, Ontario: Exile, 2010. Card covers. Rear cover creased, else a fine copy. Introduction and Director's Photo Diary by George Hickenlooper. Foreword by Norman Snider. Afterword by F.X. Feeney. Stills from the film starring Kevin Spacey. A cinematic treatment of the story of Jack Abramoff, Washington lobbyist and convicted felon. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53337More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
DARK CINEMA: American Film Noir in Cultural Perspective
Edition: First printing
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1984. Octavo, black cloth without jacket, as issued. pp xxiv, (307), [3]. Tidy ink name at front, else fine.
Book ID: 39586More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
GREAT SCOTT ! The best of Jay Scott's movie reviews
Edition: First printing
McClelland & Stewart, 1994. Card covers. pp 356. Fine copy., 125 of Scott's reviews in Toronto's Globe & Mail 1978-93. Astute, well written and at times savagely funny, Jay Scott was the best and is sorely missed still. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53927More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
GRIERSON ON DOCUMENTARY. Edited with an introduction by Forsyth Hardt
Edition: First printing
London: Collins, 1946. Mint green cloth. pp 256 + plates; index. Bookplate at front, else fine. Jacket has creases and small tears at top of front panel, small chip at foot of spine, VG otherwise. Grierson, a pioneer of documentary film, was a very important figure in the early days of the National Film Board of Canada.
Book ID: 43739More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
HARPO SKEAKS. Illustrated by Susan Marx
Edition: First printing
New York: Bernard Geis, 1961. Octavo, blue cloth and boards, red endpapers and top page edges. pp (475), (3) + plates. VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. The price-clipped jacket has small chips and tears, old internal tape repairs, just good.
Book ID: 36655More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES
Edition: First printing
New York: 1962. Paperback original, Ballantine S 586. 256 pp, with over 200 photos from the film directed by Roger Vadim. Spine lightly sunned, small dimple to inner margin of front cover, else a fine, crisp copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 49566More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Masters of the American Cinema
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 46603More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Speaking candidly : films and people in New Zealand
Hamilton, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcace, 1945. 241 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. Small ink notation on front free endpaper, VG otherwise. Shabby dust jacket lacks top 1.5 inches of spine, upper rear panel stuck to cover from damp.; Octavo.
Book ID: 29218More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE CALGARY STAMPEDE: a story of the Canadian Plains
New York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson, 1925. pp (3)-187 + 2 stills, in photographic paper covers "Popular Plays and Screen Library". Chips to spine ends; text paper yellowed; damp stain to fore margin of early leaves; small corner chip to late leaves; VG clean and tight copy otherwise. Based on Schrock's screenplay for the Universal Pictures film starring Hoot Gibson (his photo on the front wrapper). Fragile, and scarce. Not in Watters.; Octavo
Book ID: 51294More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN BOOK
Edition: First Edition
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons and Company, 1916. Narrow quarto, 31.5 x 17.5. pp (12), stapled, in color card covers. Soft crease to lower outer corner of front cover and text; faint pencil price to upper outer corner of front cover; some faint foxing to covers, quite minor spine rubbing; text paper a little yellowed as always; ink name inside front cover; else a fine copy, in remarkably nice condition for such a vulnerable book. Photos of Chaplin as the little tramp, with captions, in the text. The first book on Chaplin, and a must-have for the Chaplin collector.
Book ID: 36947More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
THE FILMGOERS' ANNUAL 1932
Edition: First Edition
London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1932. Red cloth spine and printed boards - front cover bears a colour photo of Greta Garbo. pp 170. Colour frontispiece photo of Ronald Coleman, sepia and b&w photos on every page. Shelf rubbing to lower edges of boards and outer corners; Xmas, 1932, ink gift inscription at front; VG+ copy otherwise, nice. Garbo, Gary Cooper, Dietrich, Shearer, Will Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald, William Powell, Chevalier, Loretta Young, Chaplin, Edward G. Robinson, Keaton, etc.. etc. - tout le monde is here in picture or biographical sketch. 1.5 kg parcel ; Quarto
Book ID: 50177More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
WALTER MURCH AND THE ART OF EDITING FILM
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002. Card covers with flaps. Many b&w photos. pp 310 + Filmography & Index. Fine copy. With a Compliments of the Author card tipped in. Though not indicated, this was the copy of Ondaatje's good friend Leon Rooke. ; Small squarish quarto
Book ID: 53183More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture
Book ID: 31096More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00