Stars of the Photoplay
Chicago: Photoplay Magazine, 1916. First edition. Recent quarter cloth, original wrappers preserved. Text somewhat browned, due to paper quality. More
Cinema
Hollywood with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major
No Place: (1938). First edition. Cloth, with leather label. Fine. One of 800 numbered copies, signed by Baer. More
Der sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des Films
Wien / Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. Original printed wrappers with expressionist design by Tibor Gergely. Slight wear. Scarce in this condition. Considered the first important book on silent film aesthetics. Viejo, Film Books: A Visual History, 3.4. More
The History of Motion Pictures. Translated and edited by Iris Barry
New York: Norton, (1938). First edition. Red cloth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket. More
Two autograph letters signed to Stephen Schwartz
1968, 1975. Gives permission to translate his work, agrees to write for Coppola's City magazine, discussion of movies: "Godard films don't hold. Breathless [is] anachronistic crap. [They] were so modish that they don't even belong to the time capsule." On the non-activity among surrealists, his own films "The critics said..... More
The Soul of the Moving Picture; Translation by Allen W. Porterfield
New York: Dutton, 1924. First edition. Cloth, fine, ownership stamp. xx pages, 1 leaf, 168 pages frontispiece, 21 plates 20 cm. Although this book is frequently mis-catalogued, it was written not by the famous noveist Walter Bloem (1868–1952), but his son Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945). The German edition “Seele des..... More
Screen World. 1949 (-1979)
New York: Greenberg, 1949-1979. first editions. Volumes 1-5 [1949-1954], plus 24 [1973], 26-7 , 29-31 [1975-1979] 11 volumes. Cloth and boards, fine copies in dust jackets (a few jacket spines slightly faded). Extra shipping required. More
Cinema Arts. Vol. 1, Preview issue, and issues numbered 1 and 3
New York: Cinema Magazine, 1936-1937. First edition. Three numbers of four published of this deluxe annual. Issue 1: Folio, 11.5 inches x 14 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards with cover portrait of Greta Garbo by Jaro Fabry. Light wear to extremities, very good condition. Limited edition, numbered and specially bound..... More
Cinéma d'hier, cinéma d'aujourd'hui
Paris: Gallimard, 1970. First edition. Wrappers, service de presse copy. 372 pp. Fine. Inscribed "pour Raymond Queneau avec remerciemnts (v.p. 310) de son dévoué Satrape et ami / René Clair". Clair and Queneau were both Satrapes of the Collége de 'Pataphysique. Queneau is quoted on page 310. More
Von Stroheim.
Angus & Robertson (1981). Cloth, fine in dust jacket. FIrst U.K. edition. More
Making the Movies
New York: Macmillan, 1915. First edition. Cloth, very good. Advance review copy with perforated title page. More
The Film Sense. Translated and edited by Jay Leyda
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1942). First edition. Blue cloth, fine in lightly used, price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket design is by E. McKnight Kauffer. More
Films: Facts and Forecasts. With a foreword by Charlie Chaplin
London: Bles, [1927]. First edition. Purple cloth, lettered in gilt, light foxing to edges, otherwise a fine copy in the scarce dust jacket with small edge tears and minor wear. More
La dolce vita
[Paris]: J.-J. Pauvert, 1960. First edition. Wrappers with dust jacket. 170 p. [par] Federico Fellini et [Giuseppe] Lo Duca. illus. 18 cm. Text in French. Fine. More
Famous Film Folk
New York: Doran, (1925). First edition. Blue cloth, ends of spine and corners a little worn. very good, otherwise. More
Pictorial Beauty on the Screen
New York: Macmillan, 1923. First edition. Cloth, fine in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. More
The Theatre of Science. A Volume of Progress and Achievement in the Motion Picture Industry
New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1914. First edition. Green cloth, rear hinge strengthened, covers lightly spotted; very good. One of 3000 numbered copies, signed by the author, More
Handbill for The Maltese Falcon film
[ca. 1941?]. 11-7/8 inches x 9-7/8 inches. Printed on thin paper. Very good condition. Probably made for a local theatre. More
A History of the Movies
New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. First edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket. Jacket has clear tape along the top and bottom edges. More
The Memoirs of Will H. Hays
Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. First edition. Gray cloth, fine, in very good dust jacket with slight wear at the top of the spine. More
Hollywood Through the Back Door
New York: Longmans, 1937. First American edition. Grey cloth, slighrt spotting else a fine copy, in near-fine dust jacket. More
Famous Stars of Filmdom (Men)
Boston: L.C. Page, (1932). First edition. Blue cloth, gilt, (design signed "AB" by Alfred Brennan) fine copy. 342 pages frontispiece, portraits 19 cm. More
The Truth About the Movies.; By the stars
Hollywood: Hollywood Publishers, (1924). First edition. Cloth, not issued in dust jacket, remains of a bookplate; near-fine. More
What's Wrong with the Movies?
Los Angeles: The Waverly Company, 1923. First edition. Black boards, red lettering, fine in lightly worn, spine-faded dust jacket. An interesting volume of critical articles. The dust jacket claims it as "the first critical volume ever written on the silent drama". See Manchel, Film Study, an Analytical Bibliography, vol. 1..... More