Out-of-Print Film & Movie Books

Hardcover. NY, Corvin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 121 pages. Includes a bibliography and filmography. Lya de Putti's star shone for such a short time. Her star-making role in Variety, with Emil Jannings, happened just six years prior to her death. There's not a lot of information available about her but the authors have put together what they were able to find in a well-written, interesting manner. The turmoil, the films and the foibles are all here for reading purposes. INSCRIBED BY HERZOG on title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 362 pages. Richard Steele, best known for his essays in The Tatler and The Spectator, was a powerful and humane influence in letters, the theatre and politics during the times of Queen Anne and the first George. B&w frontis. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Film historian and critic, Leonard Maltin's extensively researched book about the world of animated cartoons. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color posters. With studio filmographies, Academy Award nominees and winners, glossary of animation terms, source listings, and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with magenta gilt lettering on spine, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of Frances leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevive Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinemas formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they wrote in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema.Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. No dust jacket, Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, FAB Press, 3rd pr., 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages illustrated in b&w. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and comic artist Robin Bougie takes a dive to the bottom of the cesspool of sexploitation, doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him famous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans. Issues 17 to 20 of this celebrated underground smash magazine are exhaustively revised and collated in this third wild volume, together with an additional 80 pages of never-before-seen interviews, rants, comics, hard-to-find classic movie advertising, and graphic illustrations by Bougie and a host of his talented friends from both the comic book and animation industries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Running Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 314 pages, b&w illustrations. Acclaimed filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau explores the seven films that came to define the De Palma decade-Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Obsession, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, and Blow Out. Combining film analysis, detailed production histories, and new interviews with De Palma himself, his casts, and collaborators, Bouzereau presents the definitive record on this unrivaled period of cinematic creativity and the emergence of an auteur who would continue to influence filmmaking in the decades that followed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnes Varda (19282019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards. In this lively biography, former Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey explores the "complicated passions" that informed Varda's charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda's three remarkable careers-as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Los Angeles CA, Twentieth Century-Fox, N/A, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wraps, 135 pages, three-hole punched screenplay, dated November 14 1979 and designated as The Numbered Script (this copy with #37 inside front cover). Final draft was dated December 12, 1979. The 1980 movie that starred Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lilly Tomlin. This draft doesn't mention Patricia Resnick who was given credit as co-screenwriter, Higgins directed. Title lettered on bottom edge, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Republic of Macedonia, Slovo, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 309 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, bilingual English/Russian text. Light edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Hardcover. New York, Universe Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 1,500 black & white frame blow-ups, and the entire dialogue. Dust jacket worn with curling/tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

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. 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. 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. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 284 pages. A book of both film criticism and as a piece of Greeneiana. Nearly 100 photographs taken from the films of the period. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. Oherwise clean. In an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages, illustrated with b&w photos and the author's pen sketches. Dust jacket with light shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Duckworth, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w photos. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Filipacchi, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages, 700 black and white photographs. Foreword by John Lithgow. Introduction by Jean-Louis Ginibre. Index and Credits. Female impersonators in motion pictures.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh PA, GoodKnight Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Art of Selling Movies presents the first-ever look at 60 years of newspaper advertising for motion pictures great and small. These ads created by Hollywood and adapted by local and regional exhibitors motivated patrons to leave their homes, part with precious income, and spend time in the dark. Because of the high stakes involved, theater operators used wildly creative means to make that happen. They made movie advertising equal parts art and psychology, appealing to every human instinct (especially sex) in an effort to push product and keep their theatres in business. From the pen-and-ink masterpieces of the 1920s and 30s to location-specific folk art to ad space jam-packed with enticements for every member of the family, The Art of Selling Movies dissects the psyche of the American movie-going public ... and the advertisers seeking to push just the right buttons.

NY, Frederick Unger, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 383 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wrappers, 124 pages. Black/white photos and illustrations. Reproductions of skit scripts and other ephemera from the early years of the TV show. Small notation on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press], 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with white lettering, no dust jacket issued. 508 pages. Text illustrations. Study covers period between Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera and documentary-movement associated with the Sandanista Revolution. This anthology of 25 articles is both historical and cross- cultural, covering the pioneering period of the twenties and thirties and the dynamic growth of committed documentary since the sixties; recent feminist initiatives in North America and Britain; committed documentary in the Third World over the last 25 years; the use of film within the American 'New Left;' and the particular problematic of radical film distribution. Contributors include such well-known activists and scholars as Joan Braderman, Julianne Burton, Guy Hennebelle, John Hess, Claire Johnstone, E. Ann Kaplan, Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage, Steve Neale, Bill Nichols, Anand Patwardhan, and Paul Willemen. Filmmakers and collectives discussed include Dziga Vertov, Joris Ivens, Jean Renoir, Frontier Films, Newsreel, Chris Marker, Barbara Kopple, JoAnn Elam, Michelle Citron, Shinsuke Ogawa, Fernando Birri, Patricio Guzman, Santiago Alvarez, Fernando Solanas, Jean-Luc Godard, Anand Patwardhan, and the Nicaraguan Studio 'Incine.'Clean copy.

London/NY, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket that has a closed 2" tear along spine. 500 pages, b&w illustrations. Don Siegel was one of Hollywood's most controversial directors. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the very few acknowledged science-fiction classics, and Magnum Force - with its catch-phrase 'Make my day' - has become part of our modern consciousness. Siegel's five-film collaboration with Clint Eastwood created a body of films that are as distinctive as they are different, and enriched the reputation of both of them. This autobiography has all the fun and energy one would expect from Don Siegel. From his first days as an assistant editor in the Warner Brothers cutting rooms, Siegel charts his rich and varied career. This is a wonderful book of reminiscences, told in a lively and vivid style, whose cast of characters includes John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen, Bogart and Bacall, studio head Jack Warner and other luminaries of the golden age of the Hollywood studios (including a fading film star called Ronald Reagan, whose last film, The Killers, was directed by Siegel).At the centre of the book is Siegel's relationship with Clint Eastwood, whose directing career was encouraged by Siegel, and who supplies an amusing and appreciative foreword to the book. No markings.

Hardcover. New Rochelle NY, Arlington House, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jackrt. 347 pages including index, 92 b&w photos. Introduction by Frank Capra. Memoirs by the director of "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 307 pages, b&w photos. No dust jacket. The biography of actor Leslie Howard, star of great movies such as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel". En route from Lisbon to London, Howard was shot down by German fighters. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in white boards stamped in gilt. A comprehensive, chronological history surveying over ninety years of fashion on the Oscars red carpet. The red carpet is so much more than fabulous gowns on famous people; it reflects the styles and values of each era and has become a platform to make social statements. Red Carpet Oscars presents over ninety years of fashion worn at the film world's biggest event since its inception in 1929, charting what the stars wore and why. From homemade and preloved dresses to ready-to-wear and haute couture, it tracks the style evolution of Hollywood's leading stars, the commercialization of the red carpet, the emergence of stylists, and the radical shifts that reshaped formal dressing. This comprehensive chronological survey showcases a thousand looks across almost a century. In addition to carefully curated images of the most iconic and inspiring outfits, each year features a short overview, sharing the stories behind the looks and tapping into fashion trends, along with the social and political influences of the time. Fashion writer Dijanna Mulhearn has compiled the ultimate fashion resource that celebrates both the glamour and the impact of one of the most watched red-carpet runways in the world. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chunks gone from spine. A witty drama critic from the New York Herald-Tribune offers opinions and gossip on the celebrities of the day. 186 pages. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. Yellow cloth stamped in purple and black; 370 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Here Gingrich, the publisher of Esquire, shares his feelings on food, automobiles, smoking pipes, violins, haberdashery and a litany of other esoteric subjects.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 548 pages, b&w illustrations. The book contains a 65 page Filmography, notes and sources and index. Old price sticker on rear of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Surrey UK, FAB Press, 6th pr., 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, 'Cinema Sewer' joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Adults only material. Like new copy.

Hardcover. Lanham MD, Vestal Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 226 pages with b&w illustrations. This volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the actor's 158 known film appearances, [the author] includes cast and crew lists, plot synopsis, critical comments, and behind-the-scenes information. Complementing the text are 120 photographs, most of which are published here for the first time."

Hardcover. NY, Falcon Enterprises, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, pictorial dust jacket. 148 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations. Rear dust jacket panel with piece gone. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Book Store, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Rare early 26 page analysis of the films of Ms. Gish. Frontispiece portrait of Lillian Gish. Light blue wrappers printed in black within decorative border with same vignette. The author, Edward Wagenknecht (1900-2004), was an American literary critic who also wrote on film. He received his PH.D. in 1932 from the University of Washington, where he taught from 1925 to 1943. This was his first published work. Clean copy.

Softcover. Culver City CA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Brooksfilms, , N/A, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale blue wrappers with die-cut window for title, 120 pages, three-hole punched pages held by 2 brads. Title page dated April 9. 1981 indicating an early version. The 1982 film, directed by Richard Benjamin, earned Peter O'Toole an Oscar nomination for his lead role as Alan Swann. Title lettered on bottom edge, otherwise clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 251 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. Light wear to pictorial wrappers, else a very neat, tight copy. Carl Dreyer is recognized as one of the great master stylists of the cinema whose works exhibit his rigorous, austere and powerful cinematography. David Bordwell analyses how Dreyer confronts the viewer with problems of attention, orientation and narrative comprehension.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. A commemorative volume offers the definitive pictorial history of one of the most popular movies of all time.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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. 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.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 301 pages, b&w photos. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages, b&w photos. In a nice, unclipped dust jacket. From Margaret Drabble: "[Bogarde]...is also a lively and interesting writer; his books are in a different class from the ghosted, pedestrian or anecdotal memoirs which so many stars of stage and screen produce..."

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hollywood CA, 20th Century Fox, 1980, Two b&w glossy photos. 1) Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon and Chris Makepeace. 2) Matt Dillon and his campus crew.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Rare notes, memos, and telegrams from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and more. Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time--from the silent era to the golden age, and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the 135 letters, memos, and telegrams are organized chronologically and are annotated by the authors to provide backstories and further context. While each piece reveals a specific moment in time, taken together, the letters convey a bigger picture of Hollywood history. Contributors include celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda.

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. The author of "Adventures in the Screen Trade" provides an inside look at the Cannes Film Festivals and the Miss America Pageant from his unique perspective as a judge, offering anecdotes about the judging process. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Bloomsbury, 1st UK, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 441 pages. An analysis of the cinematic work of Ingmar Bergman by the director himself. Using scripts, working notes and memory, he comments on his failures as well as his successes; the themes that bind his work together; his concerns and anxieties; and on the relationship between his life and art. Clean copy.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w photos. There have been very few directors in the history of Hollywood who have ever had as hard a time as Sam Peckinpah did. In a career that lasted only from 1961 to his death near the end of 1984, the man known (rather errantly) as Bloody Sam made only fourteen films--not exactly a large volume work. Despite this, however, and despite (or perhaps because of) his penchant for raising hell with studio heads and producers, Peckinpah was a never-a-dull-moment director. And when he wasn't doing that, he made himself a target for critics, both inside and outside of Hollywood, with his graphic and complex approaches to violence (his 1969 Western epic THE WILD BUNCH), while at the same time also numbering among his films two, largely non-violent gems in THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE and JUNIOR BONNER that prove that the man was able to show sides of the human experience that didn't involve bullets or bloodshed.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages, b&w illustrations. "For 35 years Louis Malle has pursued a varied and successful career in cinema. In this book, he discusses his development as an artist and the controversies aroused by his films dealing with subjects like child prostitution, incest and wartime collaboration." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abradale Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 222 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Reprint of the 1983 edition published by Abrams. A noted film historian presents an informative look at Disney's innovative animation classic, with more than 170 dazzling illustrations. Clean copy.

United Artists, 1939, Book: Very Good,

Munich, Schirmer Mosel, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 134 pages. Mostly b&w, some color photographs. It was Colette who discovered the too tall and too thin girl with expressive eyes, then a complete unknown, and made her the lead in the 1951 Broadway production of Gigi. Her film triumphs were all the more astonishing since she didn't match the usual Hollywood cliches. Petite, almost androgynous, and with a disarming naturalness, she had a worldwide impact on fashion and beauty trends and was enthusiastically welcomed as an alternative to the sex bombs and pin-up girls of the 50s. This book, with an essay by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach, is dedicated to Audrey Hepburn who died in 1993. It includes the best film stills, portraits, and private photographs by well-known and by unknown photographers from all over the world who have provided us with an immortal image of Hollywood's most endearing star. NOTE: There is a light smoke smell to this book.