A Life on Film
by Astor, Mary
New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a bit of shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, otherwise a nice clean copy with no significant blemishes; the jacket is very lightly soiled, with a touch of fading along the spine and a single closed tear at the bottom of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) Memoirs of the actress/novelist, covering her film career from silent picture days through... Read More
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The Weather of the Heart
by Athas, Daphne
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, previous owner's name and date purchased written on ffep, small stamp (a 1963 Christmas Seal) on front pastedown; jacket worn, rear panel soiled, a couple of ragged tears at top of front panel, a few other small tears]. "A novel of youth by a new writer of distinction." The novel is "the moving story of Eliza Wall,... Read More
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The Crystal Cup
by Atherton, Gertrude
New York: Boni & Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear to book, attractive patterning on edges of text block (not marbling, exactly; more like a floral pattern); the jacket is lightly edgeworn, with small tears and slight paper loss at the spine extremities]. "Mrs. Atherton hs dared make her heroine a frigid woman [that's why she's half-encased in what looks like an iceberg in the jacket illustration, I... Read More
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The Sophisticates
by Atherton, Gertrude
New York: Horace Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1931. 4th printing. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, apparently unread, just a trace of wear to bottom edge, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store, The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few tiny edge-nicks, soft diagonal crease in rear flap]. Novel about the "young, beautiful and incomprehensible ruler of the sophisticated set in a ... Read More
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The Pyramid of Lead
by Atkey, Bertram
New York: D. Appleton and Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1925). 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [very nice clean copy, firm and tight with just a touch of wear at the extremities; jacket a bit scuffed on the front panel, a couple of tiny edge-tears, long vertical scrape to top half of rear panel, minor soiling at spine and rear panel]. The first of three mysteries by this author, all quite uncommon, featuring... Read More
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Holy Suburb
by Atkins, Elizabeth
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with minor shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top edge, a bit of discoloration to endpapers; the jacket is a little faded along the spine, with some evident wear at the spine ends, a handful of shallow nicks and tears along the top edge, modest soiling to the rear panel]. Very scarce novel set in Nebraska in the early... Read More
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![Arthur Jacobson; interviewed by Irene Kahn Atkins [*SIGNED* by Jacobson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/854/165/1137165854.0.m.jpg)
Arthur Jacobson; interviewed by Irene Kahn Atkins [*SIGNED* by Jacobson]
by Atkins, Irene Kahn
Metuchen NJ/London: The Directors Guild of America & The Scarecrow Press, Inc.. Near Fine. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0810827050 . (no dust jacket, probably as issued) [tight and clean, with no discernible wear; one-time owner's address label on ffep]. (The Directors Guild of America Oral History Series, No. 11) Series (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the interview subject on the 2nd ffep: "To my dear friends / _____ & ____ / Affectionately, / Artie."... Read More
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![The Film Journal (Spring 1971) [first issue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/956/1392956152.0.l.jpg)
The Film Journal (Spring 1971) [first issue]
by (Atkins, Thomas R., ed.)
New York: The Film Journal. Near Fine. 1971. (Vol. I, No. 1). Magazine. [nice clean copy with only minimal handling wear, minor bend at top right corner of front cover, very slight insect-nibbling at lower right edge of front cover] (B&W photographs) Inaugural issue of a magazine dedicated to presenting "original documents and critical evaluations that will be useful to scholars, teachers, students or anyone seriously interested in film." Contents of this issue... Read More
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![The Film Journal (September 1972) [cover: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in TARZAN AND HIS MATE]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/918/941/8941918.0.l.jpg)
The Film Journal (September 1972) [cover: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in TARZAN AND HIS MATE]
by (Atkins, Thomas R., ed.)
New York: The Film Journal. Very Good-. 1972. (Vol. 2, No. 1). Magazine. [creasing/wrinkling at all corners and along spine, otherwise a decent copy, internally clean]. (B&W photographs) "Special Sexuality Issue," featuring a long article by David Madden, "Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh: Notes for an Erotic Memoir of the Forties." Also: articles by Harry M. Geduld, Lawrence Becker, and others; an examination of the films of Ken Russell, by Jack Fisher; poetry... Read More
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Palace of Light
by Atlas, Jacoba
New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, one bent page corner; jacket a little rubbed but no tears or chips]. A love story set against the backdrop of labor unrest and the early days of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. [Although this goes unmentioned in the jacket copy, the author did her college dissertation on the history of Hollywood labor unions, and is... Read More
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At the Sign of the Silver Cup
by Atteridge, Helen
New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons. Very Good. (c.1926). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, bottom corners bumped, a bit of soiling to page edges, previous owner's signature on front pastedown]. Novel about a young boy from Sussex who goes to London during the reign of Charles II. .
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The Marriage of Don Quixote
by Atwater, Adeline
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, hinges a little weak but intact, a number of scratch marks on front cover, light bumping at several corners, vintage bookseller's label (Des Forges Books De Luxe, Milwaukee) on rear pastedown, remnants of old price sticker on rear endpaper]. Novel with an art-world background, the story "enriched by a well-sketched scene that shifts from Kansas City... Read More
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Property From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra: December 17, 2019, Beverly Hills, CA (Sale Number 1915)
by Julien's Auctions
Culver City CA: Julien Entertainment.com. Near Fine. (c.2019). First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [essentially as-new, the only flaws being a couple tiny nicks on the rear cover]. (color and B&W photographs) Lavishly-produced auction catalog, offering 588 lots of nearly every sort of thing that your average long-divorced wife of an iconic celebrity might have hanging around her very well-appointed home: furniture, clothing, artwork, jewelry, silverware, pottery, purses, shoes, etc.... Read More
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Journey to a War
by Auden, W.H., and Christopher Isherwood
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1939). 1st American Edition (see Notes) Early Printing. Hardcover. [minor shelfwear, slight wear to cloth at top of spine, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood); jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge of front panel (slightly impacting the title), a few other little edge-nicks, and a little fading along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) Auden and... Read More
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Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic
by Auiler, Dan
New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dj. 1998. 3rd printing. Hardcover. 0312169159 . [spine slightly turned, bottom front corner and base of spine bumped; jacket shows just a bit of surface wear, tiny wrinkle at top of front panel]. (B&W/color photographs) "An in-depth re-creation of the making of Hitchcock's signature thriller." Foreword by Martin Scorsese. .
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Montage Eisenstein
by Aumont, Jacques (translated by Lee Hildreth, Constance Penley, and Andrew Ross)
London/Bloomington: BFI Publishing / Indiana University Press. Near Fine. (c.1987). 1st English Edition (softcover issue). Softcover. [nice clean copy, virtually as-new with no significant wear]. (Theories of Representation and Difference) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Blurbed as "one of the most important studies of Eisenstein to have appeared in any language," this volume (first published in French in 1979) draws on "the recent discovery and publication (in Russian) of thousands of pages of his theoretical... Read More
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La suite à l'écran: entretiens
by Aurenche, Jean
Arles (France): Institut Lumiére / Actes Sud. Near Fine. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. [minor edgewear to covers, a nice tight clean copy]. Trade PB A compilation of interviews with the noted French screenwriter and sometime director (1903-1992), covering his long career (which stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s) and containing commentary and insights on most of his 80 films and many of his collaborators, including directors René Clément, Bertrand Tavernier, Marcel Carné, Jean Delannoy... Read More
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Fritz Lang. His Life and Work. Photographs and Documents.
by Aurich, Rolf, Wolfgang Jacobsen and Cornelius Schnauber, eds.
Berlin: Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche Kinemathek / jovis Verlag GmbH. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.2001). First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, no discernible wear to book at all; the jacket has only a teensy bit of dog-earing at the spine ends and at the upper left corner of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) Massive, lavishly-illustrated volume issued in conjunction with a retrospective of Fritz Lang's films. With text (in parallel columns throughout) in... Read More
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The Red Notebook, and other writings
by Auster, Paul
London/Boston: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1995. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [mild age-toning to edges of text block, no other significant wear to book; jacket is very slightly edgeworn]. Contents: I. The Red Notebook. II. Prefaces (Twentieth-Century French Poetry; Mallarmé's Son; On the High Wire). III. Interviews (Translation; Interview with Joseph Mallia; Interview with Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory). IV. A Prayer for Salman Rushdie. .
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The Road to Glory: A Biographical Novel of Napoleon
by Austin, F. Britten
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good in Very Good dj. (c.1935). Reprint 2nd Printing (stated). Hardcover. NOISBN . [front hinge cracked, otherwise a solid copy with minimal shelfwear, some fading to cloth at top edge and base of spine, offsetting to endpapers in gutters, one-time owner's name and date of original purchase at top of ffep; jacket has a small ragged tear at top rear hinge, light edgewear and a couple of tiny nicks here and... Read More
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![The Man from Planet X [*SIGNED* by the film's star]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/229/418/1362418229.0.l.jpg)
The Man from Planet X [*SIGNED* by the film's star]
by (no author)
[Canada]: Planet X Productions. Near Fine. (c.1987). First Edition. Softcover. [faint wear to lower extremities]. (Planet X Productions Reprint Movie Comic No. 1) Series INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front cover by actor Robert Clarke, star of the original film. Reprint (in appropriate size/format, approx. 7"x10") of a 1951 comic book (Fawcett Movie Comic, No. 15, if you must know) that, per the publishers' introductory note, is "impossible to locate in Mint condition." ... Read More
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Dark Masquerade
by An Illustrious Anonymous Author
New York: Green Circle Books. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, a bit soiled on top edge, property stamps of Ross's News Store, Scranton, Pa. on front pastedown and ffep (no other markings of any kind); jacket is worn and soiled, with tiny bits of paper loss at several corners and edges]. "A startling novel of love, crime and redemption, by an Illustrious Anonymous Author." OK, now hold it... Read More
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A Child is Born
by Axelson, Mary McDougal
Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.. Very Good in Good dj. 1939. 1st Edition (stated). Hardcover. [solid copy, light spotting/soiling to page edges, discoloration to endpapers/pastedowns, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; dust jacket (apparently a later issue, promoting the Warner Bros. film version of the book) chipped at spine ends and top of front panel, worn/soiled at all edges, 2-inch closed tear at top of front panel]. The novel of "every woman's... Read More
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Come to My Wedding
by Ayres, Ruby M.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1933). Reprint. Hardcover. NOISBN . [virtually no wear at all, remarkably nice condition considering the cheapness of its production; jacket is similarly nice, with just a touch of rubbing at the spine ends]. "Gyp Farrow as her flighty, beautiful young mother's one mistake. When she was thrust into a gay, cocktail-drinking, night-club world, she tried hard to suppress her embarrassing truthfulness and to... Read More
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There Was Another
by Ayres, Ruby M.
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy with only light shelfwear, spine a bit turned, dust-darkening to top edge, some offsetting to endpapers, original owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket a bit worn at edges, a handful of insignificant tears and wrinkles, light soiling]. "A story of the bondage of a girl to a shadow" -- or, less poetically, a romance novel... Read More
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