Search Results: Film from Carnegie Hill Books

Zurich: Parkett Publishers, 1991. Oblong quarto. [150] pp; color photographs throughout. Pictorial boards in matching dustjacket. #4/35 copies with original signed, numbered drawing on blank page preceding title page. A fine, unused copy in fine jacket. CD of film music by Sergey Kuryokhin in rear pocket. Buster's Bedroom is a 1990 independent German comedy film directed by Rebecca Horn. The film follows a young woman with an infatuation for Buster Keaton. The film was shown at the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival in May 1990. Later that year it was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles together with Horn's exhibition. The objects of the exhibition were connected to the film, as themes, character references and props. The film was released in Germany on 9 May, 1991.The film stars Amanda Ooms, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Chaplin. The location is Nirvana House, south of Santa Barbara, which Keaton himself frequented over his alcohol problems and was even detained in a… Read More

NY: Citadel Press, 1971. Second paperback edition. Quarto. 191 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features stills from all of Bette Davis's movie career, starting in 1931 with Bad Sister and ending in 1965 with The Nanny.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Paris: Editions Frederic Birr / Ateliers Henry Labat, 1983. Quarto. 159 pp; fully illustrated with 270 color & b/w illustrations, some full-page; index of poster artists including a brief biography. Text in French. Paperback with illustrated covers. Near Fine, a tight, unmarked copy; minor upturn to corners of front cover. A chronological survey of French film posters from the late 19th century to 1959. Includes a 10-pp historical overview by Jean-Louis Capitaine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1946. First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003. First edition. Quarto. 32 pp; 12 dolls and 32 costumes on 16 color plates. Paperback. A fine copy. This paper doll collection focuses on 12 femmes fatales who dominated the silver screen from the silent era through the 1930s, accompanied by costumes from their most popular films. The actresses are: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Barbara La Marr, Myrna Loy, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Mae West.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.