New York: Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Generally fine in near fine dust jacket. Slighly oversized hardcover, 273 pp. with filmography. Illustrated with photos in the text and with an additional section of stills from Karloff's films 1916-1972. Biography of actor Boris Karloff, authored by one of his.....
NY: H.W. Wilson, 1938. Second. Cloth. Second printing. Cloth, 472 pps. with appendix, index. Fine. Issued without dust jacket.
New York: Flare/Avon, 1974. Softcover. Oversized in illustrated softcovers. 256 pp. Very good, corner crease lower front corner and some rubbing to the spine edges. The most conplete and accurate reconstrution of the fclassic 1941 noir film "The Maltese Falcon" which starred Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade, Mary.....
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.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. First edition and first photoplay edition, novelization of the film, illustrated with cast photos and scenes from the 1932 movie starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Joel MacRae, and, in an acting role, Erich von Stroheim. In the days after World War.....
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.....
St. Martin's Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near fine (some foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 252 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Uncommon biography of actor Lee Marvin (1924-1987). Born in Nedw York City, Marvin served in the Marine Corps during.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922. First edition thus. Hardcover. First photoplay edition. hardcover in brown cloth lettered in black. Map endpapers. Illustrated with scenes from the 1923 Paramount silent film starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson and Alan Hale. A tight, fine copy , bit of offsetting to 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.....
Mcfarland & Company, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. FINE, UNUSED EXAMPLE. Issued without dust jacket. xii+ 367 pp. Encyclopedic alphabetical listing of over 9000 men and women involved with the silent film industry; each entry includes birth and death dates and places when known, birth names and many also have.....
Baltimore: Luminary Press, 1999. Paperback. Softcover. 224 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs and wil reproductions of vintage advertising. A fine, unused copy. Thorough examination of the exploitation cinema, from the earliest days of moving pictures, abounding with anecdotes, character sketches and insights.
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.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1924). First edition thus. Hardcover. No date (1924). First photoplay edition, Hardcover in green cloth lettered in darker green. Illustrated with scenes from the 1924 Inspirational Pictures silent film starring Lillian Gish. Very good, small ownership signature and date front free endpaper. In the original.....
