Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 182 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with 12 photos from the Buster Keaton Silent Comedy. Dust jacket shows heavy chipping and small tears. Lightly darkened pages, otherwise tight copy.
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).
Softcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, b&w plates. Illustrated with stills from the 1924 film. compiled and annotated with a foreword by Herman Weinberg. Probably Stroheim"s best remembered work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean. Light soiling to wrappers, shelfwear.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 425 pages, b&w illustrations. Previous owner's signature, otherwise clean, very good. The definitive study o the career of this Italian filmmaker first published in 1987.
Hardcover. NY, Wynwood Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Rozsa was both a classical composer and extremely successful Hollywood film composer. Hence the title. He scored such films as Ben Hur, El Cid and Lust for Life and many others.
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, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 203 pages, b&w photos. Bright, clean copy in dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 295 pages, b&w photos. In a bright dust jacket that has 1/2" gone from bottom of spine. Otherwise very good.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 331 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 492 pages, each with an accompanying essay by Goldman. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The author presents a memoir of her father the well-known playwright, producer, director and screenwriter of such Hollywood classics as The Desert Fox, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Three Faces of Eve, The Dirty Dozen and many others.
Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1991, Hardcover, 242 pages, b&w photos. Extensive interview with a veteran assistant director (who actually started out as a cameraman) whose career stretched over six decades, from 1918 to 1970. During the studio era he worked largely at Paramount and then 20th Century-Fox. Fun fact: He was also one of Clara Bow's boyfriends. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages, b&w photos. A no-holds-barred biography that exposes Peter Sellers few were privy to. Recognized as one of the greatest British comics, Sellers was the grand master in over 55 films. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of bizarre behavior involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with such people as Princess Margaret, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives. As fascinatingly revealing look at this enigmatic talent.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 475 pages, b&w photos, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge. A biography of Frances Marion, one of the earliest--and for many years the most successful--screenwriters in Hollywood. Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s.
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. Berkeley CA, University of California, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 525 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press; Nation Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 464 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. As the McCarthyite witch hunt gathered momentum in the postwar years, screenwriter Norma Barzman and her husband were driven from Hollywood into an emotionally difficult thirty-year exile in France. The Red and the Blacklist is a unique record of the political tempests of the time, marked by the author's dazzling power of reflection and insight, and animated by a larger-than-life cast of supporting characters including Pablo Picasso, Harold Robbins, Sophia Loren, Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Losey, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Groucho Marx and--in a delightful cameo--a very young Marilyn Monroe.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 464 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A day-to-day account of Allen making "Radio Days" in late 1985 and early 1986. A rare and entertaining account of a master director at work. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Vintage, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy. A provocative memoir from Luis Bunuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Bunuel's films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Bunuel turns his artistic gaze inward. In swift and generous prose, Bunuel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali. His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today--the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. Filled with film trivia, framed by Bunuel's intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist's eyes.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 578 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on top edge, otherwise clean. The first major biography of David Samuel Peckinpah, who began writing scripts for Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Westerner and went on to direct phenomenal films such as Riding the High Country, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Wild Bunch.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 275 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Ratpac/Running Press, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 942 pages, b&w photos. Clean, bright copy. Renoir made more than forty films from the silent era to the late '60s and today he is revered by filmmakers and seen by many as one of the greatest of all time. Previously unknown information including Renoir's close affiliation with Communism in the '30s is detailed in this definitive biography.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Miramax/Hyperion, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Profusely illustrated with black and white film stills. With a knowledgeable text by the director and film historian. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 252 pages, color and b&w illustrations. From the beginning in the silents to the era of computerized effects, this book covers it beautifully. Detailed sections on King Kong, Star Wars, Alien, Jaws, E. T., Close Encounters, and of course Blade Runner. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages, b&w illustrations. Mesmerizing, revelatory text combines with more than two hundred photographs -- most of them taken by the author -- in a startling illustrated memoir that will both astonish and move you. He partied with all the stars and big shots. Each weekend he carefully arranged his snapshots along with the week's invitations, telegrams, and news-clippings into a set of scrapbooks. In a bright dust jacket with sticker residue on rear panel.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 404 pages, b&w photos. The author offers an account of the life and film career of the "Love Goddess" whose smoldering image hid a tragic secret which fame and love affairs with glamorous men could do nothing to heal. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder line on bottom edge.
Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w photos. Eugene Jackson became a child star in 1924 playing "Pineapple" in the original "Our Gang" comedy shorts. Join him as he shares his life story -- a story that preserves the history of vaudeville and early Hollywood as well as chronicles the African American experience in the entertainment business.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Business/ Harper Collins , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 532 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. This is a story of loyalty and betrayal, a multigenerational saga that culminates in the emergence of Michael Ovitz and his Creative Artists Agency as the dominant force in Hollywood. Good in very good dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages of nearly 200 candid, off-screen photos of actors and actresses, directors and producers, that professional photographer Louis Goldman took during his nearly 70 major films. Introduction by Gregory Peck. In a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. American Icon Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages, color and b&w photos. In the 1960s, Steve McQueen was the biggest movie star of his generation and one of the coolest men to ever walk the planet. In this book, Greg Laurie follows Steve McQueen's fearless life of fast cars, women, and drugs all the way up to his dramatic life-change and terminal cancer diagnosis. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages, b&w photos. Biography of the producer who made four great movies: On the Waterfront; African Queen; Bridge on the River Kwai; and Lawrence of Arabia and lots of mediocrities. Most successful when he assembled talent and let them work, he became controlling and destructive. Very good in a bright dust jacket.
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, Viking, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. In essays that function at once as film criticism and autobiography, 23 writers recall the films that shaped them in this thoughtful and moving book that explores the mysterious interplay of art and life. Includes Russell Banks on Bambi, Joyce Carol Oates on Dracula, and Harold Bloom on The Fatal Glass of Beer.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 332 pages, b&w photos. How the formation of the Screen Writers Guild and the political passions it aroused among Hollywood's writers, actors, directors, and producers in the 1930s and 40s shattered the closely knit community and led to the blacklist years. Clean in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, b&w photos. Translated & with additional material by David Robinson. Very good, clean. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Republic Pictures, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16-page booklet, 8 X 10 1/2", staple bound. Features b&w stills from the Republic Pictures serial "Spy Smasher", starring Kane Richmond (on cover). Mild soil to front cover otherwise very good, clean.
Columbia Pictures, 1979, Book: Very Good, Four b&w glossy photos from the hit Bob Fosse production.
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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.
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