first edition Hardcover
(c.1972) · Washington DC
by Shales, Tom, et al.
Washington DC: Acropolis Books Ltd.. Very Good+. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a bit of wear at several corners, tiny nick at edge of rear cover, still and all a nice clean copy]. (B&W and color photographs) A collection of 34 short essays by many leading film scholars and historians (including Kevin Brownlow, William K. Everson, Leonard Maltin, David Shepard and Paul Spehr) on individual films, filmmakers, genres, etc., all inspired by films in the AFI collection at the Library of Congress. A nicely-produced volume, "an American Film Institute Publication." Foreword by Gregory Peck. Originally issued, I believe, (truncated)