Film-making, Cinema, Movies, Hollywood from JWMah

London: Granada Publishing., 1981. (UK) Presumed First Edition INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to the endpaper: " For----/ Stewart Granger", the front hinge is just slightly "popped", pages clean but tanning to edges, Good in unclipped Good Dust jacket with 3/4" tear to the top edge of the front cover and a tiny nick to… Read more about this item

Koln: Konemann, 2000. (GER) 1st printing. No markings, tiny dimple to the dustjacket and to the cover cloth beneath, otherwise Fine(-) in Fine (-) dust jacket. Yellow cloth, 459pp, index, hundreds of B&W photos augmented with colour photos of Hollywood stars and celebrities at work and at play. A heavy book. (7.5 JM HOQ 100/0. 1st. Hardcover. Fine (-)/Fine… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. (CAD) First Edition No markings, Fine in Good only unclipped dust jacket with some chipping and edge faults. Tweedy dark teal blue cloth, hot pink endpapers, 128pp. 105 full page drawings in B&W on coloured backgrounds of film stars including Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Harlow, Swanson, Crawford, et al… Read more about this item

London: National Film Theatre , 1955. (UK?) Date of September 7 written in pen to the cover, no other markings, the yapped edges of the covers have small tears and creases, thus Good only. Bordered red paper covers, through stapled, [8]pp counting both covers. No date, perhaps mid `1950s; date uncertain. There is a listing of the cast and crew… Read more about this item

Koln: Taschen, 2012. (GER) 1st printing of the 2012 edition: the book appeared in 2001. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, 96pp. B&W and colour illus of Giger's designs. Giger is a designer and artist but is probably best known for his design work in the movie ALIEN. This is mostly an illustrated… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Vancouver InternationalFestival, 1962. (CAD) No markings, Fine. One sheet about 22.5 x 34", printed both sides in colour and folded to a final size of 11.25 x 8.5". This is poster-like brocchure giving a schedule of events, seating plans for the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver locales. The 1962 season includes Caesar and Cleopatra by Shaw; Vronsky and Babin;… Read more about this item

NY: Watson-Guptill, 2005. (USA) 1st printing. Owner's bookplate to end paper, no markings, Fine in unclipped about Fine Dust jacket. Boards, 360pp, index, lots of B&W photos with some in colour. This is a well-illustrared book on the Hollywood Broadway musical film. Denkert, a division president of MGM and industry insider presents her entertaining, illuminating insights on exactly what… Read more about this item

NY: Oxford University Press, 1986. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, about Fine with tiny bump to lower corner of back cover, in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket with 1/2" closd tear to the bottom edge of front panel; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Boards, 208pp, no illus. In this evocative book, Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the world's greatest directors, gives… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. (USA) 1st printing. PAPERBACK. No maarkings, Fine. Wraps, 176pp, colour illus and drawings throughout. This is a look inside the studios of Pixar animation. In the more than ten years since the Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, the exhibition has traveled around the world, throughout… Read more about this item

Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. (USA) Presumed 1st edition, Remainder mark to bottom edge of pages, no other markings, otherwsie Fine in Fi9e dust jacket. Black cloth, xvi, 295pp, index, frontis portrati , a few B&W photos. Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in… Read more about this item

NY: Citadel Press, 1994. (USA) 1st printing, No markings, Fine. Wraps, 254pp, B&W photos from the movies and of the actors and actresses. The films staet off with La Signora di Tutti and ends with Tosca. An excellent reference for those interested in Italian cinema with synopsis of the film, giving the credits and the cast. A heavy book.… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen, 1977. (UK) stated 1st British edition, No markings, Fine in price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket with a small wrinkle to the lower edge of rear panel: Dj i in mylar sleeve. Boards,xvii, 523pp, index, B&W photos and storyboard illus. This is a look at the movis that make up the 50 year career of surely one… Read more about this item

London: Robson Books, 2004. (UK) 1st publication, No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 454pp, index, B& photos pages. Fro the dust jacket: "In 1967 Antonioni's film Blow-Up stunned audiences across the world, one of the most beautiful and enigmatic pictures to capture the Zeitgeist. By the end of the sixties, David Hemmings, who played the central role, was… Read more about this item

Germany: Reclam, Ditzingen, 2001. (GER) durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage, 2001. No markigns, spine crease, Very Good in about Very Good slipcase with rubbing to edges of black sides. Four paperback volumes complete with text in German. Volume 1: 560pp, index, B&W stills for motion pictures. Volume 2: 583pp, index. Volume 3: 583pp, index. Volume 4:… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 2008. (USA) 1st of this edition. No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 1007pp, index, no illus. In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, which has been a 'go-to' film reference work. Now, he has produced a companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice—that of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008. (CAD) 1st edition. No markings, Fine copy, Wraps, 320pp, B&W photos stills from movies. 28 movie artists, driectors and producers are interviewed to see how they get it done and why it matters. A heavy book. (2.9 JM HOJ 300/b4. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2001. (USA) 2nd printing, 2002. No markings, Fine as New in Fine as New dustjacket. Boards, 498pp, index, B&W photos and illus culled from studio archives and privste collections, show the image of New York city in the world of film. A heavy book. (4.1 JM HOZ 402/3. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".… Read more about this item

UK: Edinburgh Film Festival / Cinema Magazine, 1970. (UK) Presumed 1st edition. No makrings, Very Good, Wraps, 100pp, B&W photos from the films. (1.33 JM LVR 206/b2. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. (UK) First British eidtion, No markings, Fine as New in Fine dust jacket, Boards, xiv, 402pp, index, B&W photos and illus. This is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic film, Casablanca. (2.2 JM LVR 201/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

USA: Ayn Rand Institute Press, 1999. (USA) 1st printing. Owner's name, no other markings, Fine. Wraps, 223pp, B&W photos. The teenage Ayn Rand wrote two booklets in the USSR abut the American film industry. Facsimiles of the Russian manuscripts are followed by complete English translations. Also included is her "movie diary" in which she recorded details of her viewing… Read more about this item