Search Results: Cinema from Clearwater Books

Aurum Press, London, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Square 4to. 163pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). Illustrated throughout with stills, behind-the-scenes photographs, and prop and set designs, predominantly in colour. Wrapper edges lifting a little with a single short superficial crease. Very good. The uncommon first edition of Bizony's superb study of the conception and filming of Stanley Kubrick's science fiction classic..

Vision Press Ltd., London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 89pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. A touch of wear to the board edges. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, dust soiled, nicked and chipped with some areas of loss and some internal repair. Eisenstein's scenario for his ultimately abandoned Mexican project (his "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy"). Eisenstein shot between thirty and fifty hours of footage before being forced to abandon the project. A version was eventually edited from the footage by Grigori Alexandrov and released in 1979..

Hyperion, New York, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 573pp. Illustrated with photographs. A virtually fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Prion Books, London, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 374pp. Illustrated with various monochrome photographs in the text. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally dust soiled. A scholarly study of American indie film-makers of the 1980s and 1990s, focusing on the Coen Brothers, Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, David Lynch, John Sayles, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Wayne Wang..

Hyperion, New York, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Fiona Thanks for that wonderful night in New Orleans. The Big Easy, indeed, love Joe". 8vo. 310pp. Quarter cloth, lettered in silver at the spine. Tips of two corners bumped, and with a little light toning to the leaf margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, and just fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities. Queenan's hilarious account of his epically-underprepared attempt to make a low-budget movie, and the failures of equipment, manpower and rationality that inevitably result..