Motion Pictures in Education: A Summary of Literature
NY: H.W. Wilson, 1938. Second. Cloth. Second printing. Cloth, 472 pps. with appendix, index. Fine. Issued without dust jacket.
NY: H.W. Wilson, 1938. Second. Cloth. Second printing. Cloth, 472 pps. with appendix, index. Fine. Issued without dust jacket.
Prentice-Hall, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket (tiny flaw at foot of spine). Hardcover. First edition. 324 pages, with index. Illustrated with photographs.
The University Press Of Kentucky, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. x+ 290 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Quite scarce. The first full-length biography of actor Claude Rains (1889-1967). Rains was born into poverty in a destitute London neighborhood and suffered from.....
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1993. First edition. Novel base on the 1993 film by the same name which starred Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance. Fine in fine, price clipped jacket.
Random House Publishing Group, 2001. First edition. Hardback. New, unused example in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 265 pp. Illustrated with color and black and white photos. Unforgettable memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and talented actors of the modern era, Diane Keaton. Audiences know her best for her film.....
SR Books, 1998. Paperback. Generally fine (price inked inside front cover). Paperback. xii + 243 pages.Illustrated with black and white photographs. An important addition to Latin American history, a collection of essays concerning films and filmmakers. nn.
Mcfarland & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Hardcover. xii +628 pp. Fine. Encyclopedic work on sheet music from movies from the silent era through 1989. The main section is an alphabetical listing of the music by film name with the entry containing information on the releasing company, date, main stars and list.....
A. S. Barnes, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in bright, crisp, price clipped dust jacket with a touch of wear at the front fold. Hardcover. 220 pp. Illustrated. A book unique in the history of motion pictures, the story of cut movies--the essentially arbitrary cutting of film scenes.....
NY: A.L. Burt, 1929. First. Hard Cover. First edition. Dark maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with scenes from the Radio Pictures film starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles. The movie version of Flo Ziegfeld's operetta, billed as "Ziegfield's fabulous all-talking, all-singing super screen spectacular". Guy Botlton wrote the screenplay.....
NY: William Morrow & Co, 1989. First. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 304 pps. with index; illustrations. The true story of the still unsolved 1934 murder of Hollywood comedic sexpot Thelma Todd, best remembered as the blonde siren who starred in some of the Marx Brothers.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1934). First edition thus. Hardcover. Firts photoplay edition. Hardcover with photographic endpapers featuring images from the 1934 film starring Will Rogers as a small town banker. A tight example, some scraping to the outer edge of the half-title and significant fade to the spien extending.....
New York: Liveright, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Hardcover. Color illustrated endpapers of a stylized nude of Mary by Sorel. 167 pp. Illustrated with vintage photographs as well as color drawings by the author. Already a significant scarcity and cult favorite, the tale of Hollywood Golden.....
Philadelphia: Triangle/ Blakiston, (1944). Hardcover. Hardcover in ochre colored cloth stamped in red. 303 pp. with drawings by Laurian Jones. Carries the original 1935 copyright date but this issue from 1944 to co-incide with the release of the film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney. Generally fine but with the.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Softcover. Oversized in color illustrated wrappers. Tasseled blue string and staple bound. (18) pp. Illustrated with reproductions of the color drawings of the major characters by Dan Sayre Groesbeck (Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Joseph Calleia, Katina Paxinou, Vladimir Sokoloff) as well as with.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 387 pp (including index). A highly readable look at the "Golden Age of the Movies". MGM, Warner, Paramount, and other competing Hollywood studios developed their own styles and values, which typically reflected the.....
New York: Orion, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement as is correct) The very scarce hardcover edition. 288 pp. Illustrated with still photos from the films. Screen plays for three of Fellini's films: "I Vitelloni", "Il Bidone", and "The Temptations Of Dr. Antonio", a comic episode of Boccaccio.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. First edition thus. Hardcover. First photoplay ediiton, dated 1914 but this ediiton 1919. Hardcover in olive green cloth. Illustrated with scenes from the Mayflower Photoplay Corporation silent film starring Lon Chaney, Thomas Meighan and Betty Compson. 300 pp. plus one page adverts. About very.....
New York: Triangle, 1947. First edition thus. Hardcover. Hardcover. 182 pp. First movie edition, issued to coincide witrh the 1947 MGM film starring Greer Garson and Robert Mitchum. Generally fine, though the pages are embrowned as usual with these cheaply produced movie editions; no illustrations but Mitchum and Garson are.....
NY: Knopf, 1988. Proof. Wrappers. Uncorrected proof in yellow wrappers printed in black. Very scarce and highly collectible proof copy of one of the high spots of late 20th century world literature. Cocked and with wrappers evenly soiled.
Lance Tapley, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First editon. Inscribed on the half title, "Best to ___/ Gary Merrill". Hardcover, 273 pp. with filmography. Illustrated. Autobiography of stage, screen, radio and TV actor Gary Merrill (1915-1990). Fine in very good dust jacket. Merrill's career included movie roles in "Winger Victory", "Twelve.....
Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1967. First. Cloth. First printing. Orange cloth, 302 pps. Collection of 30 interviews of famous and important film makers from Louis Lumiere to Alfred Hitchcock and including Mack Sennett, Griffith, Chaplin, von Stroheim, Bregman, Lang, Welles, von Strenberg, Kurosawa, etc. A near fine copy, slightly.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1902 (1921). First edition thus. Hardcover. First Photoplay Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with scenes from the 1921 film starring Edward Abeles. In very good condition. Bound in red cloth and lettered and decorated in gilt and black. 307 pages.
Chicago Review Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Black and white photographs. 428 pages. Index and select bibliography.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. revised. Hardcover. Thick hardcover in glossy color illustrated boards. Fine, fresh example, issued without dust jacket. 685 pp. wiith bibliography, index, complete filmograpies. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and reproductions, some in color. One of the scarcest and most sought after of this publisher's books in.....
New York: Falk Publishing, 1927. Second edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in blindstamped dark brown publisher's leather stamped in gilt. 435 pp. with index, glossary, section of illustrated adverts at rear. Illustrated with photgraphic plates of movie cameramen in action on movie sets, on location, diagrams and charts. The second edition, revised.....