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Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. In her pioneering study, Music in the Shadows, film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores musical films that use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. Clean copy.

Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, MGM/Brooksfilms, N/A, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange title wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 199, dated August 3, 1981, with credits for screenwriter Steinberg and director Benjamin, and producer Michael Gruskoff. Title page present, dated August 3, 1981, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with a credit for screenwriter Steinberg. 119 leaves, photographically reproduced, with the last leaf of text numbered 117. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Shot on location in New York City. O'Toole received an Oscar nomination for his role.

Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, MGM/Brooksfilms, N/A, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange title wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 99, dated September 4, 1981, with credits for screenwriter Steinberg and director Benjamin, and producer Michael Gruskoff. Title page present, dated September 4, 1981, noted as REV. FINAL DRAFT, with a credit for screenwriter Steinberg. 110 leaves, photographically reproduced, with the last leaf of text numbered 110. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Shot on location in New York City. O'Toole received an Oscar nomination for his role.

Softcover. Culver City CA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Brooksfilms, , N/A, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale blue wrappers, 120 pages, three-hole punched pages held by 2 brads. Stamped copy # 137. 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, light spotting to rear cover, otherwise 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.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 72 pages. A true masterpiece of book design and illustration for beginning readers, this collection pairs well-known nursery tales with uniquely beautiful period illustrations that look as fresh and vital today as they did six decades ago, when the book was first published in Great Britain. Never before published in the United States, My First Nursery Book features four beloved stories: "Who Killed Cock Robin?," "The Gingerbread Man," "Three Little Pigs," and "The Three Bears." Franciszka Themerson, a Polish avant-garde artist and filmmaker who returned to children's book illustration as a refugee in London in the 1940s, is regarded as one of the great talents in classic children's book illustration. Finally, American children can experience and enjoy this remarkable volume, filled with stunning illustrations that will bring a new audience to Themerson's genius.

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, Henry Holt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew-FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more-and the many disappointments of his last years. This is the great director unplugged, free to be irreverent and worse-sexist, homophobic, racist, or none of the above- because he was nothing if not a fabulator and provocateur. Ranging from politics to literature to the shortcomings of his friends and the many films he was still eager to launch, Welles is at once cynical and romantic, sentimental and raunchy, but never boring and always wickedly funny.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 970 pages illustrated with color, b&w illustrations. Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl on stage and winning the Oscar for that performance on film. Then came a long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she's found in her marriage to James Brolin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, b&w photos, in a bright dust jacket. The true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A homicide detective investigates the murder of an old friend's daughter, and when a third friend is suspected all must confront their haunting past. Stated first edition. First printing with correct full number line sequence. Basis for the 2003 Academy Award winning film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Creation Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages. Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit--arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture--Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, and The Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinema verite and performance films (Shadows and Wholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman's Bucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat and Barfly).The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony Balch's Towers Open Fire to David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsberg, recorded three months before his death in April 1997.

Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.

Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages. b&w photos throughout. During his 50-year association with the Village Voice, Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) covered the city's downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah frequented the bars, cafes, and galleries where writers, artists, and musicians gathered, and he was welcome in the apartments and lofts of the city's avant-garde cultural aristocracy. He captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, to the Stonewall Riots. Through his lens, we see the legendary birth of ideas and attitudes that continue to shape the character and allure of New York today.

Softcover. Amon Carter Museum, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Struss (1886-1981) was that rara avis who mastered both still photography and cinematography. Best known for his stunning camera work on F.W. Murnau's Sunrise--for which he shared the first Academy Award for cinematography in 1927--Struss was a member of Photo-Secession, an organization co-founded by Alfred Stieglitz devoted to the promotion of photography as a fine art. While Koszarski discusses Struss' contributions to the cinema, the focus of this retrospective is the artist's earlier New York pictorial work; the book is handsomely illustrated with black and white images from Struss' oeuvre, as well as his striking 1910-17 experiments in color.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Published in time to coincide with an exhibition at the Nouveau Mus From well-known portraits of Monaco's "beautiful people" to rarely seen landscapes, this collection of images documents two decades of Helmut Newton's love affair with the sun-kissed world of the French Riviera. While this volume focuses primarily on the years 1981 to 2004, it also looks at Newton's historic links with the Cote d'Azur and the area around Bordighera, Italy. There are essays by a range of experts in photography, film, and art and three interviews, including one with Paloma Picasso.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Robert Chatoff-Irwin Winkler Productions, N/A, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 leaves printed in a variety of different photomechanical methods on rectos only, plus additional revisions on different color paper, some dated as late as February, 1976. Title page is dated December 8, 1975. Bradbound unprinted red wrappers. Now bound in a binder with black boards. Nickelodeon was directed by Bogdanovich, and starred Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Tatum O'Neal. According to Bogdanovich, the film was based on true stories told to him by silent movie directors Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Although Richter name appears as co-writer, his original script called Stardust Memories was junked by Bogdanovich and completely rewritten by him.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. This is an essential purchase for fans of Felix the Cat. As all true fans know, Felix's real glory days were in the silent era, when Pat Sullivan's animation studio produced over a 100 ingenious short cartoons featurng the protean ebony feline. Though Sullivan hogged all the credit, the artist behind the series was Otto Messmer, who also worked on Felix's spin-off newspaper comic strip. He continued with that strip after the cartoons ended in 1930 (due to Sullivan's incompetent management).Editor David Gerstein has compiled a sampling of strips from the early 1920s to the 1930s. It's fascinating to see how Felix changed over a decade, moving from a blocky, snout-nosed design to a sleek look with rubber hose limbs and circular head and torso. Comic-strip Felix is of naturally talkier than his film self, and Messmer's sight gags flow less smoothly when broken up by panels and dialogue, but these strips remain a delight, especially since a couple stories are adaptations of now-lost cartoons (and even re-use art from them). As for the original stories, they take advantage of the format to tell longer tales, often in the sort of gently humorous adventure genre later used by Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse and Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics. Sadly, Felix's comic strip adventures remain far more obscure than those Disney productions.

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.

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.

Softcover. NY, Viking Press , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. Lehman's Oscar nominated screenplay for Hitchcock's great 1959 film. Illustrated with 25 b&w stills. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Autobiographyy of her life and career by the provocative French star famous for such roles as 'Casque d'Or,' Les Diabliques,' "Room at the Top' (for which she won the Academy Award as Best Actress), 'Madame Rosa,' and many others. Signoret was also nominated for the Oscar for her role in 'Ship of Fools.' She was married to Yves Montand until her death in 1985 and for many years they were the reigning couple in French cinema, both also involved in social and political issues. 403 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 216 pages. World-class athlete, playboy, war correspondent, and heir to a Greek shipping fortune, Taki has over the last three decades moved among the rich, the powerful, the titled and the celebrated in London, New York, Gstaad, the Riviera?wherever fun or stimulation was to be had. But in 1984, while passing through Heathrow Airport, Taki was arrested for possession of cocaine and summarily sent to jail. Nothing to Declare is the hilarious and surprisingly wise account of the three months Taki spent in prison, a story filled with perilous day-to-day events as well as reflections on the glamorous life he has led. Clean copy.