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New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1974. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First printing. Octavo, biege cloth covered boards with red and gilt titles and spine titles. 380 pp. including index and "Acknowledgements" (The acknowledgements are actually more or less detailed notes on sources and persons appearing in the biography.) Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and movie stills. Written by one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Jerome Lawrence was not only the author of the famous Inherit the Wind but also the founder of the American Playwright's Theatre. Includes details of Muni's almost 300 performances in the Yiddish theater before he began his Broadway career. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR JEROME LAWRENCE, IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION on free front endpaper. This copy in excellent collector's condition. Fresh cloth, bright gilt, clean interior, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread in a tight, crisp, sharp, glossy price-clipped dust… Read More

Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, raspberry cloth covered boards witj silver spine titles.304 pp. including index, references and notes. BRAND NEW BOOK. Generously illustrated throughout with movie stills in black and white. A socio-cultural history covering approximately 100 biographical movies to analyze how the Hollywood versions have shaped the public images and internal histories of the characters of historty that they portrayed. A beautiful copy. Tight and with very fresh cloth, sparkling silver spine titles and an interior that is bright white, unmarked, unblemished and unread. Flawless. AS NEW. BRAND NEW BOOK..

New York: Viking Press, (1980). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Two volumes, small quarto, navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 1121pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white movie stills selected by the author. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked, undamaged and apparently unread volume in crisp, sharp, price-clipped dust jackets with light fading/yellowing. Fine in very good plus dust jackets..

Metuchen, NJ.: Scarecrow Press, 1983. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with white title and spine title. 367pp. including extensive index and bibliography. Filmmakers Series No. 2 (series editor, Anthony Slide). A very tight, clean, bright, fresh, unmarked, undamaged and unread volume. Fine without dust jacket. AS NEW..

London/New York: Zwemmer/A.S.Barnes, 1967. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Square 12mo. brown photo-illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 175 pp. including filmography. Illustrated with black and white photos and movie stills. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine..

London/New York: Zwemmer/A.S.Barnes, 1967. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Square 12mo. brown photo-illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 175 pp. including filmography. Illustrated with black and white photos and movie stills. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Shallow corner clip to top forecorner of free front endpaper. Fine..

Madison, WI: Wisconsin Film Society Press, (1965). Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black and white photo-illustrated stiff wraps. 238pp. plus 12pp. of full page black and white movie stills. A very tight, square, stiff, crisp, clean, unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine. A great copy of this fragile and scarce item..

London: Virgin Publishing, 2001. Book. As New. Soft cover. Later Printing. Octavo, teal, black and white photo-illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). 303 pp. including index, Supplemental Credits, bibliography and Index of Quotations. Foreword by Peter Bogdanovich. A film by film analysis of one of the greatest of 20th century American film directors. Illustrated with color photographs of posters and movie stills. A beautiful copy. Tight, square, crisp, stiff, glossy, clean, unmarked and unread with a flat uncreased spine. Flawless. AS NEW..

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, lavender cloth covered boards with silver and black titles and spine titles. 330pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs, movie stills and production photographs. With a lengthy analysis and commentary by Herman G. Weinberg recreating the profligate production of this monumental work on late Austro-Hungarian Empire in Vienna and the stages of its reduction from 2000 reels to a couple of "hacked" versions. A very tight, clean, fresh, brigh, unmarkedt volume with bright silver titles in a clean, tight, bright dust jacket with a couple of nicks to rear top edge and a bit of lamination separation just along part of the top front edge. Fine in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket..

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1997. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. First printing. Octavo, photo-illustrated heavy card wraps (trade paperback) . 555 pp including index, notes, filmography and equipment sources. A guide to making ethnographic and documentary films. A very tight, clean, stiff, square, crisp, fresh, internally bright, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Faint barely legible "not for resale" stamp on fore edge , else fine. Near fine. A virtually new copy..

New York: New York Zoetrope, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto, original grey cloth covered boards. 587pp. including index, list of longest running primetime game shows, list of longest running daytime game shows, detailed chronology of game shows showing network and dates for length of run. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of hosts, sets and participants. An exhaustive catalogue with details on each show from the very beginnings through the Golden Age of television up to the late 1980s. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and undamaged volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket with one short closed edge tear along very bottom of fore edge. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SCARCE in the FIRST EDITION..

New York: / London: A. S. Barnes / Dent, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printing. Quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 388pp. including extensive index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A tight, unmarked volume with a touch of soil to fore edge in a dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears to top of rear panel and slight toning to spine. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket..

New York: Museum of Modern Art, , (1971). Book. Fine. Soft cover. F. First Edition. Octavo, photo-illustrated white stiff wraps (paperback). 96pp. With bibliography and interview with Hal Roach. Illustrated throughout with black and white movie stills. A quite scarce analysis of the films of Hal Roach. A very tight, square, internally fresh volume with a flat uncreased spine. Cover shows light to moderate dust darkening and there are a couple of small red stamps on title page. An excellent solid and internally clean volume with no creases, tears, stains etc. Very good..

New York: Banes, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, textured coated paper covered boards. 202pp. Generously illustrated throughout with historic photographs and movie stills of one of America's most popular film actresses. A tight, clean, unmarked volume in a crisp bright dust jacket with a very soft crease near top edge, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. Book. As New. Original Cloth. First Edition. Two volumes, octavo, navy blue cloth covered boards. pp. 431, 395. Both volumes First Editions (1976 & 1987). Illustrated with black and white photographs. Both volumes pristine. Fresh cloth, bright gilt, very tight, crisp, clean, unmarked and unread. Pristine. AS NEW. Sold as set..

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1974. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with gilt title and spine titles. 585pp. including extensive bibliography. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, some full page. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright unmarked and unread volume with bright gilt. Pristine. AS NEW..

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. First Edition. Large octavo, (7" x 10.5"), illustrated stiff wraps. 353pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white movie stills and movie poster and playbill reproductions. By a pre-eminent connoisseur of the genre and author of "Scream Queens: Heroines of the Horrors". Includes film photographs of Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Lon Caney Jr. Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and many, many more. A very tight, square, crisp, clean, fresh unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine..

Jefferson, North Carolina, U.S.A.: McFarland, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards with white titles and spine titles. 332pp. including extensive index and bibliography. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, many full page. A very tight, fresh, bright, clean, unmarked and unread volume. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York / London: A. S. Barnes / Tantivy, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printing. Quarto, purple cloth covered boards. 270pp. including index, appendices and discography/filmography. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp dust jacket with one very short closed edge tear on rear and slight touches of superficial soil. Fine in near fine dust jacket. An excellent copy..

New York: Random House, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio, white coated paper covered boards with silver title and silver spine titles. 271pp. A fabulous review of the blockbuster movies of the post-war, post big studio modern period for Hollywood. Commentary movie stills and analysis of 22 movies that made the first three decades of the post-war Hollywood great, including Caine Mutiny, My Fair Lady, Rebel Without a Cause, Ocean's 11, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Klute and Catch-22. Illustrated with loads of movie stills and production photographs in color and black and white, many full page and several double page. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..