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Overexposures: The Crisis in American Filmmaking
by Thomson, David
New York: William Morrow & Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0688004008 . Blue cloth spine over gray boards. Dampstaining to the top of pages 291-348. A sticker ghost to the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is nicked to the spine, with a closed tear to the front fold. Creasing to the rear flap. Publisher's price of $13.95 to the front flap. ; 348 pages .
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£15.46
The Sound of Music Companion
by Maslon, Laurence
New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1416549544 . Purple cloth with blue endpapers. A touch of rubbing to the spine and corners. The dust jacket has modest creasing, primarily to the rear cover. Publisher's price of $40.00 to the front flap. Foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Illustrated, index.; 192 pages .
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£18.72
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) Lobby card
by RKO
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) lobby card, USA. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, dir: Edward Dymtryk; RKO. A tense moment in the story is presented in this scene card. Advertising line is ""Meet the NEW Dick Powell!"" After years of playing the ing�nue male in great Warner Bros. musicals (and briefly at MGM), Powell revitalized his career in film noir. RKO was on the brink of bankruptcy and signed Powell to make some musicals, his stipulation...
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£244.17
BULLITT (1968) Three sheet poster
by Warner Brothers
No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 41 x 81" (103 x 203 cm.) three sheet poster on linen, USA. Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, dir: Peter Yates; Warner Brothers. Unrestored, with great, nicely matched colors and all minor original issues addressed in conservation. Fine.The classic 1960s action-crime thriller, with an iconic performance by Steve McQueen playing the San Francisco cop who becomes obsessed with finding the underground leader...
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£8,139.00
CRIME WITHOUT PASSION (1934) Half sheet poster style A
by Paramount
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 22 x 28" (56 x 71 cm.) half sheet poster style A, USA. Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges, Leslie Adams, dir: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes; Paramount. Paper-backed, originally unfolded, minor touch-ups to white margins, near fine.Controversial screenplay by Ben Hecht (with Charles MacArthur) based on Hecht's story CABALLERO OF THE LAW. This was one of the first true independent productions (Hecht-MacArthur) and was...
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£1,220.85
IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) Campaign book
by Columbia
Vintage original 12 x 16" (30 x 40 cm.) campaign book, 16 pp., USA. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, dir: Nicholas Ray: Columbia. Lightly folded and has been stored flat. There is some wear at the fold on various pages, ABOUT FINE.Classic film noir, now on the National Film Registry, about a screenwriter asked to adapt a trashy bestseller. Finding it difficult to read, he has a hat check girl tell him the story in her own words. She ends up murdered, and he is a prime...
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£264.52
It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography (Applause Books)
by Charlotte Chandler
Charlotte Chandler. >It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography (Applause Books) Copyright 2005 Applause Theatre and Cinema Books. Stated First Applause Printing, 2006.Illustrated with photographs. Softcover. USED. VG CONDITION. 349 pages, 6 X 9. ISBN1557836922.
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£27.58£16.55
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IPCRESS FILE, THE [IPCRESS] (1965) Italian due foglio poster
by Rank Film
Vintage original 39 x 55" (100 x 140 cm.) poster, Italy. Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Dolman, Sue Lloyd, dir: Sidney J. Furie; Rank Film. Folded, fine.Popular 1960s crime/espionage thriller based on The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton and set and filmed in London, touching upon the local political atmosphere at the time. Michael Caine played Harry Palmer, a counter-espionage agent, investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. The spectacled Caine represented a new kind of British...
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£264.52
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
by Sinclair, Upton
Sinclair, Upton. Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox. Published by the Author, Los Angeles, CA., 1933. First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Includes Ephemera: Original pamphlet "A letter from Mary Craig Sinclair to Eve Fox" originally issued with this title.
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£51.19£30.71
The First 20 Years of Monty Python
by Kim "Howard" Johnson
Kim "Howard" Johnson.The First 20 years of Monty Python. Illustrated with photographs. St. Martins Press, NY, Used. Softcover. VG Condition. 269 pages. 8 ½ X11.
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£36.58£21.95
Walt Disney's Bambi Picture Book (Over Sized Wrap)
by Felix Salten
Walt Disney Production, 1942. Soft cover. Fair++/No Jacket Issued. This is a soft cover Over sized Wrap Picture Book in Fair++ condition.. c1942, 1st Edition. Linen like cover& pages. This is an attractive front cover of Bambi. Clean & bright covers. The inside pages are unmarked, no scribbling, but there is a browning to the page boarders. The front & back cover spine are separating, and the crack is almost complete. Could be used for framing!#20854-324
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£20.34
History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film 1896-1978
by Reade, Eric
Sydney: Harper & Row. 1979. Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in a purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Presentation plate to prelims. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 353 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£10.43
MY LADY'S LIPS (1925) One sheet poster
by B. P. Schulberg, Preferred Pictures Corp
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print. Vintage original 27 x 41" (68 x 102 cm.) one sheet poster, USA. Clara Bow, William Powell, Alyce Mills, Frank Keenan, Ford Sterling, dir: James P. Hogan; B. P. Schulberg/Preferred Pictures Corp. On linen, there was some fold line separation, especially at edge borders, there has been some minor inpainting in the area of the words "MY" and "LIPS", but poster has extraordinary, bright, original colors, near fine.An extremely rare poster and one of the earliest to...
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£12,208.50
(Film noir) ONE WAY STREET (Sep 14, 1949) Revised first continuity script by Lawrence Kimble
by Lawrence Kimble
Universal. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), noted as Revised First Continuity script, here under the film's working title Death on a Side Street. That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title One Way Street written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in manuscript pencil on a second title page. Brief annotations throughout in...
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£691.81
Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven
by Curtis W. Ellison
University Press of Mississippi, 1995. First Edition. 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket Issued. This is a Very solid and square soft cover Country Music History Book. It is in Near Fine condition. c1995, First Edition , 1st Printing. This book very, very lightly read if at all. It is in wonderful condition both inside and out. It has a very bright & very clean cover. The edges are very nice with nice spine ends. It has a Smooth spine! The pages are tight, bright & unmarked, no names. Not a...
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£8.13
James Cain (source) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) Set of 5 photos
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: MGM, 1946. Set of five (5) vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white photos, overall near fine.
Five dramatic images from this film noir classic. Lana Turner is in all five photos, and John Garfield is in four of the five.
Photos coded: 1355-24, 46, 73, 78, 79.
Five dramatic images from this film noir classic. Lana Turner is in all five photos, and John Garfield is in four of the five.
Photos coded: 1355-24, 46, 73, 78, 79.
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£406.95
When You Wish Upon A Star, Walt Disney's Pinocchio
by Ned Washington
Bourne Inc. Music Publishers, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good++/No Jacket Issued. Very Bright & Very Clean Sheet Music from Walt Disney's Pinocchio. It is in very Good++ condition. c1939, Presumed 1st Edition & 1st Printing. Front & back cover and two pages of music. Very flat wrap with very nice edges. Top left corner has a little crease. Hardly any shelf wear . No soiling or marks, no names or writing. #20856-324
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£15.46
ALL THE YOUNG MEN (Sep 15, 1959) Revised Final Draft script by Hall Bartlett
by Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (screenwriter) Hollywood: Columbia Pictures. Brad bound, quarto, mimeograph, 131 pp., a few penciled notes throughout, a few pages with markings in heavy pen, and some pages of revisions on yellow paper dated Sept. 22, 1959. Various editorial notes on back wrapper in an unknown hand, overall NEAR FINE.A Korean War film in which Sidney Poitier was second-billed in the role of a stalwart troop commander who is forced to deal with racism as well as incoming fire.
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£366.26
The Friendly Persuasion, Movie Edition
by Jessamyn West
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair+. This is a Classic "Movie Edition" hardcover from c1945. 1st Edition thus. Very Good condition with a Fair jacket. It has a green cover with a black square lettering box. The cover is bright & clean, and not much cover wear. The edges have a little light wear. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked. No names. The jacket with price, has some wear and spine end roughness. Nice photos from the movie on the...
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£4.88
BLUE DAHLIA, THE (1946) Lobby card ft. Ladd, Dowling
by Paramount
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm.) lobby card, USA. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, dir: George Marshall; Paramount. One of the finest classic film noir titles and written by the master of the genre, Raymond Chandler. The story involved a war vet who returns home to see his wife with another man. She is murdered and he is the prime suspect. The Blue Dahlia is a nightclub where much of the action takes place. Chandler initially had...
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£162.78
Pasolini Requiem
by Schwartz, Barth David
Pantheon Books, Inc. New York, 1992. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 786 pages. Hardcover biography, bound in black cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. There is some light speckling to the top edge of the page block, with very light shelfwear to the edges of the boards. Else, the binding is solid, and the interior is clean and clear of markings. Text in English, with illustrations in black and white. A monumental achievement of scholarship on a most fascinating filmmaker..
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£28.49
MURDER IN THE AIR (1940) Title lobby card
by Warner Brothers
No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" (28 x 35 cm) title lobby card, USA. Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson, dir: Lewis Seiler; Warner Brothers. This is a textured linen card. There are pinholes at each of the four corners, a pinhole at each margin halfway down the card, three minor edge tears and tear area to the left edge of the card, which have been addressed with archival tape on the verso, very good-fine.Though described as an action thriller, this...
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£203.48
Revisão Crítica Do Cinema Brasileiro
by Rocha, Glauber
Cosac & Naify Edições, São Paulo, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Wrappers. 238 pages with black and white illustrations throughout. Minor rubbing to the paper covers with a very faint crease to to the lower, right-hand corner and top edge. Preface by Ismail Xavier. Stiff Printed wraps. Text is in Portuguese. Index..
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£81.39
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962) Set of 18 photos
by United Artists
United Artists. No binding. Near Fine. [Hollywood]: United Artists, 1962. Set of eighteen (18) vintage original photos, varying from 7 1/4 x 9 1/4" (18 x 23 cm.) borderless photos to 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.). Some photos have stickers on verso of a photo rental agency, two have studio text affixed to verso. One photo has a chip in top left margin, overall near fine. A substantial visual archive for John Frankenheimer's devastating Cold War-era film noir adapted from a novel by Richard Condon, with memorable...
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£305.21
Spider Magazine, Volume 1, Number 3 (April 15, 1965) - includes interview with Kenneth Anger
by DeCanio, Steve (ed.), Kenneth Anger (interviewed), et al
Oakland: Spider Magazine, 1965. 1st edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 24pp (including printed wrappers). This scarce 1965 Bay Area countercultural magazine includes the original appearance of an important interview with Kenneth Anger that was subsequently reprinted in Film Culture. Unmarked VG copy, light toning/wear.
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£48.83
