Film Criticism
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Art Of Watching Films
by Joseph M ; Petrie, Dennis W Boggs
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Film Criticism Books & Ephemera
The Hurrell Style: 50 Years of Photographing Hollywood
by Hurrell, George and Whitney Stine
NY: John Day, 1976. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: John Day, 1976, first printing. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", 218pp., illustrated with over 200 photographs. Black cloth with bronze spine titles. Previous owner name on fly leaf. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 4to.
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£48.57
Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Cinema's Golden Age
by Basten, Fred E
NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", 192pp., illustrated with over 100 reproductions in full color. Foreword by Ted Sennett. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Fine in mylar sleeved, fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.
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£32.38
The Universal Story: The Complete History of the Studio and All Its 2,641 Films
by Hirschhorn, Clive
NY: Crown, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Crown, 1983, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", 400pp., illustrated with over 1,200 photographs and stills from the films. "Offers stills, plot summaries, and critiques for films made by Universal Studios from its beginnings in 1913 to the present." Dark blue pictorial cloth with white titles. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.
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£72.86
Filming With Attenborough: The Making of Cry Freedom
by Donald Woods; Richard Attenborough
NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. First edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Holt, 1987, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, ix+163pp., illustrated. Recounts the filming of the story of Steve Biko, a Black leader in South Africa who was beaten to death by the police. Very good. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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£12.14
George Balanchine : Ballet Master
by Buckle, Richard
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988, first printing. 8vo., xi+409 pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo.
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£24.28
Will
by Will Smith and Mark Manson
New York: Penguin, 2021. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. Memoir written with the help of Mark Manson, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.
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£28.33
Liza! Liza!: An Unauthorized Biography of Liza Minelli
by Petrucelli, Alan
NY: Karz-Cohl Pub, 1983. First edition thus. Trade softcover. Published NY: Karz-Cohl Pub., 1983, first printing. Square folio wrappers, 10" x 11", xi+174pp., illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Some edge curl to the covers, binding tight, text clean, unmarked. Very good minus. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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£60.71
The Major Film Theories
by Andrew, J. Dudley
Oxford. Near Fine. 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback, film clips. 0195019911 . Fine. Square, tight, clean. Spine faded. Appears never read. No notes or ANY markings. ; 278 pages .
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£9.71
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A Grouping of Eight [8] Vintage Hollywood Film and Television Gossip Magazines
by Bessie Little, Capt. Roscoe Fawcett, Joan Curtis, Laurence Reid and Ruth Elliott [Editors]
New York: Various, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Hollywood Magazine, TV Album Magazine, TV Fan Magazine, Motion Picture Magazine, Movie Time Magazine, Movie Play Magazine.
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£141.66
Marilyn
by Norman Mailer
Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good, lightly edge worn dust jacket.. Quarto, 270 pp. of text and illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs taken by numerous photographers.
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£40.48
The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie
by Chris Miller; Foreword by Director Harold Ramis
Little Brown: New York, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket which has some light creasing. 336 pp. 8vo. Memoirs, finally published here, formed the basis for the cult comedy classic.
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£68.81
John Huston
by Axel Madsen
Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Light remainder spray along bottom edge. Indexed, illustrated with b&w photographs. An uncommon biography given the director's importance.
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£28.33
Hollywood Royalty: Hepburn, Davis, Stewart and Friends at the Dinner Party of the Century
by Speck, Gregory
NY: Birch Lane Pr, 1992. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Birch Lane Pr., 1992, first printing. 8vo., xv+270pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..
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£12.14
Horses in the Movies
by H.F. Hintz
A.S. Barnes, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Profusely illustrated with b&w movie stills of horses. Covers all aspects of horses in the movies, from westerns through to Disney and beyond.
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£40.48
A Price Guide to Magic Books: 1639-1990
by Canick, Michael
NY: Volcanick Press, 1997. Trade softcover with spiral binding. Published NY: Volcanick Press, 1997, second printing. 4to. wrappers with black comb binding, 8 1/2" x 11", 192pp. Fine. . Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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£28.33
The Films in My Life
by Francois Truffaut
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Truffaut's third and final book, comprised of many essays detailing his feelings on a wide variety of American and European film directors and their work. An insightful and readable look into the mind and heart of a great film director.
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£101.19
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
by Harvey, Stephen;Musum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1989, first printing. 4to., 9" x 11 1/4", 320pp., 50 color plates, 166 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.
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£24.28
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
by Vito Russo
New York: Harper, 1981. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. 8vo. 276pp. With black and white photos.
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£28.33
Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
by Gary Giddins
NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. First edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Norton, 2010, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, 416pp. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, Warning Shadows travels through time and across genres to explore the impact of the industry’s most famous classics and forgotten gems. Near fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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£12.14
The Film Year Book 1985
by Clark Al editor
NY: Grove Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1984. Soft Cover. 0394623215 . A near fine copy of this vintage film book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ; Photographs .
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£10.52
The Naked Image: Observations on The Modern Theatre
by Clurman, Harold
NY: Macmillan, 1966. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Macmillan, 1966, first printing. 8vo., viii+312pp. Very good in very good, price clipped dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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£12.14
Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films
by Mueller, John
NY: Wings Books, 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Wings, 1985, first printing. 4to., 10 1/2", x 11 1/4", vii+440pp., illustrated with over 2300 photographs and stills from the films. Black cloth with gilt titles and white paper over boards. Some waviness to page block, light edge rub to bottom of front board, small marker dot on top of page block, else very good, clean, bright in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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£32.38
The Audrey Hepburn Treasures
by Erwin, Ellen & Jessica Z. Diamond; Foreword by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
NY: Atria, 2006. First edition. Hard cover issued without dust jacket. "A scrapbook-style souvenir album of Hepburn interviews, photos, and replicated memorabilia includes pieces from the late actress's estate and is complemented by removable elements and anecdotes by friends and family members." Published NY: Atria, 2006, first printing. 4to., 8 1/2" x 11", 192pp., illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs and vellum pockets containing facsimile memorabilia from her...
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£28.33
Cinema Quebec, Vol. 4
by Tadros, Jean-Pierre (editor)
VG+ condition quarto hardcover, clean and unmarked.
Hardbound collection of Cinema Quebec magazine. All ten issues of Volume 4 (1975). French language, 484 pp.
Hardbound collection of Cinema Quebec magazine. All ten issues of Volume 4 (1975). French language, 484 pp.
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£32.38
