Hardcover. Los Angeles, Sherbourne Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Biography of the controversial and award-winning director, covering the entire span of his career. Illustrated with photographs. Two appendixes: The Projects of John Huston: Films and Plays 1931-1965, and A Huston Bibliography. 247 pages.
Hardcover. London, W.H. Allen, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf otherwise very good in a similar dust jacket. The filmmaker of Nanook of the North.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A day-to-day account of making "Radio Days", b&w photos.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, Illustrated wth 12 b/w cartoons by George Price. A wry and witty history of the American motion picture by a giant of the industry. Postcard of Brown Derby Restaurant laid-in.
Hardcover. New York, Roadside Amusements/Penquin Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages. Hardcover. DVD of original 1964 movie starring Pia Zadora included, as well as an original novelization by Lou Harry. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out.
Hardcover. New York, Liveright Publishing Corp. , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board. Binding tight, like new. Clean inside and out. Looks barely read. "An indispensable and entertaining guide to a visionary new form of moviemaking that can be appreciated by the avid film buff and general movie lover alike."
Hardcover. New York, NY, Bulfinch, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Color and B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Decorated cover boards, decorated endpapers. Binding tight, pages clean. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. A lavishly illustrated, fun, and informative look at more than 400 films of the decade of the 1970's. Features an interview with Peter Bogdanovich.
Hardcover. Washington.DC, Smithsonian, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages, b&w photos. Author takes you behind the scenes of Paramount, MGM, Warner Brothers, RKO and Universal in their glory years.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white photos. 579 pages. A massive and well-researched biography of one of the most powerful and influential men in Hollywood, from his days as a poor Polish immigrant through his steady climb to prominence. Photographs, notes, and sources, index.
NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.
Softcover. NY, Miramax/ Hyperion, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Preface by Wayne Wang. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Many B&w photos of Travolta working out. Old ink price "whited out" on front fly leaf, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w photos, 352 pages. Remainder line to bottom edge.
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st , 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1,100 pages. Large, heavy hardcover. Black & white diagrams and illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Milan, Mondadori, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, illustrated boards, 191 pages. Color illustrations from early animated shorts by the Disney Studio. Classic cartoons from Plane Crazy in 1928 to Ferdinand The Bull in 1938. Binding is oversz. bds. Scarce.
New York, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Color and black & white photography and illustrations. "Chicken Run" is the first feature from Aardman Animation, the animation studio responsible for the award-winning "Wallace & Gromit" films. This book tells the complete story of the making of this epic adventure, taking the reader into Aardman's magical world.
Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st printing, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 217 pages. Illustrated. Black cloth, silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. This title is of Swedish origin by a Swedish film maker and is erotic in nature. His film was banned in the US and seized by US Customs.
Softcover. Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This survey of Schnabel's career to date presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies-'Basquiat' (1996), 'Before Night Falls' (2000), 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007) and his newest film 'Miral,' which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, 'Julian Schnabel: Art and Film' is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media, bridging painting, writing and cinema. 447 pages.
Softcover. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This survey of Schnabel's career to date presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies-'Basquiat' (1996), 'Before Night Falls' (2000), 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007) and his newest film 'Miral,' which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, 'Julian Schnabel: Art and Film' is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media, bridging painting, writing and cinema. 447 pages.
Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Running Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. George Hurrell is credited as the master of the Hollywood glamour portrait. He photographed every star from Greta Garbo to Humphrey Bogart to Sharon Stone. Written by historian and former Hurrell assistant Mark A. Vieira, George Hurrell's Hollywood is the definitive retrospective. Covers Hurrell's entire career, from his beginnings as a Los Angeles society photographer to his finale as the celebrity photographer who became a celebrity himself. Hundreds of pristine images showcase the photographer's work with Hollywood icons from 1929 to 1992. The text recounts the artist's life, from his childhood to the heyday of his career as a starmaker, through the previously untold stories of his fall from grace and eventual comeback.
Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 375 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. 507 illustrations (108 in color, 399 in duotone). Founded in 1935, The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media is home to one of the most important moving-image archives in the world. Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art marks the first time that MoMA has published a volume dedicated exclusively to these holdings. Drawn primarily from the Museum's vast library of film stills, the nearly 500 images in this book represent just a fraction of the department's renowned archive, including one of the world's most important collections of international silent cinema; classic early sound films from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan; extensive holdings of documentary and animation shorts and feature films; significant examples of Hollywood filmmaking from studios such as Warner Brothers, RKO, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Paramount; and more recent works by leading independent and avant-garde film and media artists.
Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 375 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. 507 illustrations (108 in color, 399 in duotone). Founded in 1935, The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media is home to one of the most important moving-image archives in the world. Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art marks the first time that MoMA has published a volume dedicated exclusively to these holdings. Drawn primarily from the Museum's vast library of film stills, the nearly 500 images in this book represent just a fraction of the department's renowned archive, including one of the world's most important collections of international silent cinema; classic early sound films from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Japan; extensive holdings of documentary and animation shorts and feature films; significant examples of Hollywood filmmaking from studios such as Warner Brothers, RKO, MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Paramount; and more recent works by leading independent and avant-garde film and media artists.
Hardcover. New York , Taschen, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in a slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presents the most memorable movies of the 1990s into a list of 100 titles from around the world. Packed full of photos and film stills, this title features: four to ten pages for each film; list of Academy and film festival awards; bloopers, trivia, memorable lines, gossip; and actor, director, subject, and title indexes. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.
Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A photographic memoir charts Gary Cooper's off-screen life from his boyhood in Montana, to his family life in Hollywood, to his relationships with Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Jimmy Stewart, among many others.
Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious color, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer's archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full color celebration of Hammer's female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?).
Hardcover. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 225 pages, illustrated in b&w. In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. Tunes for 'Toons discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including What's Opera, Doc?, the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 463 pages, b&w illustrations. What do you need to make money making movies? The answer, according to cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal once dubbed the King Leer of Hollywood, Russ Meyer, is: "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator's life, Jimmy McDonough shows us how Russ Meyer used that formula to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American film forever.
Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Celebrates every move the Pink Panther has ever made over the past forty years, from the original Pink Panther movie starring Peter Sellers and the long-running animated series to the movie starring Steve Martin, Beyonce Knowles, and Kevin Kline.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 274 pages, color illustrations, very good paperback & cover (exhibition catalog) The essays are: the art of visual culture: comics; graphic novels; animated cartoons; computer & video games: anime; manga; visual art.
Softcover. New York , Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, 75 color, b&w illustrations. Terrific book that covers nearly forty animators from the U.S. and around the world. Includes in-depth profiles of their careers and work including the early pioneers of animation. Also includes synopses of films and many full color images.
Hardcover. New York , The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages, many b&w, some color illustrations. A stunning catalog from the world-renowned film archives of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. From Charlie Chaplin to Andy Warhol to Martin Scorsese, Still Moving contains over 500 stills from silent, documentary, animated, avant-garde, independent and Hollywood movies, representing the complete art and history of the moving image. Color printed boards.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 232 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Navy blue cloth binding with blind-stamped facsimile signatures of Johnston and Thomas on front cover and gold-stamped titles on spine.
Hardcover. New York , Time Warner International, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Foreward by Robin Williams. The director of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Road Runner cartoons discusses his childhood influences, gives advice on how to draw, and reveals how his characters were created.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages including an Index and a Chronology of Hanna-Barbera Animated Series. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY BOTH HANNA AND BARBERA.
Hardcover. London, Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dust jacket, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. US, White Star Publishers, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 616 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Holographic 3D cover.
Hardcover. US, The Curated Collection, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A visual journey of over 300 photographs with fashion's most cutting-edge photographers, designers and stylists exposes the ominously beautiful obsession with the bad boy aesthetic and reveals what draws us into the darkness, providing a daring testament to the love affair with the gloomy, sultry side of Rock 'n' Roll. Divided into five chapters that explore the different dark sides of high fashion: Dark Angel, Vamp Glam, Tribal Nomad, Hard Rock, and Future Punk.
Hardcover. Bath, England, Parragon Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Movie Stars uses stunning pictures from the Daily Mail archives, many reproduced here for the first time, Movie Stars Unseen Archives features a stellar cast of acting greats, from the stars of the silent era to those taking the honors at the 2005 Oscars.
Hardcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout. The Fashion of Film is the perfect book for the fashion fan. In it, fashion historian Amber Butchart takes a journey through the last 100 years of cinema style and its influence on the catwalks. With beautiful imagery and thoroughly-researched text, she looks at how our most iconic movies have transformed the world of high fashion. Karl Lagerfeld was influenced by the dystopian vision of Metropolis, the picture-perfect world of Wes Anderson's films are echoed in the collections of Miuccia Prada, and Audrey Hepburn was key to Hubert de Givenchy's work. Fashion designers have long taken their inspiration from silver screen idols, and continue to do so today.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Walt Disney Family Museum, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor rubbing to dust jacket. A tight copy. Produced in conjunction with The Walt Disney Family Museum's 2018 exhibition of the same name, Walt Disney's Nine Old Men: Masters of Animation features an array of fascinating artwork and family mementos from each of these accomplished gentlemen, such as sketchbooks, caricatures, and snapshots, as well as original art from the classic films Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Sleeping Beauty.
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Out-of-Print Film & Movie Books
Our film and movies shelf collects used, rare and out-of-print books on Hollywood history, directors and screen legends. Expect biographies, studio memoirs, illustrated volumes and critical studies, including hard-to-find and vintage titles sourced from private libraries. The range covers the silent era through the New Hollywood years and beyond.
Recent finds include Antoni Gronowicz's Garbo: Her Story, Lawrence Grobel's The Hustons, Donald Spoto's Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich, and William F. Nolan's John Huston: King Rebel, alongside Thierry de Navacelle's Woody Allen on Location and Gene Fowler's Schnozzola, the story of Jimmy Durante.
As with all used and rare material, condition and availability vary from copy to copy, and signed or early printings turn up now and then. Browse the collection and order online.