Berlin: Henschel, 1994. First Edition. Critical essays and filmography of East Germany's state-owned film studio, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (better known as DEFA), active from 1946 to 1993. Quarto (30cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 559pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket. Text entirely in German. More
Paris: L'Agence D'Information Cinégraphique, 1946. First Edition. Elusive first volume of this French film industry annual, which was issued only for the years 1945-48. Edited by René Jeanne and Charles Ford, with contributions by Merry Bromberger, Philippe Erlanger, Roger Hubert (cinematographer on Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis); others. Includes..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993. First Edition Thus. First (and apparently the only completed) volume in a proposed 15-volume series on the history of Weimar film. Extensively researched and well-illustrated. Quarto (25cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket & publisher's card slipcase; 916pp; illus. Fine in jacket and publisher's slipcase, with prospectus laid..... More
Berlin: Nicolai, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 351pp; illus. Fine, unworn copy in unworn jacket - near new. Text in German and English. More
Berlin: Jovis, 1996. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). Pictorial heavy card wrappers; 463pp; illus. Slight bump to upper corner of rear wrapper, else clean, tight and unmarked - Near Fine. Text entirely in German. More
Rochester: Camden House, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 301pp; illus. Fine, tight and unmarked in unworn jacket; near-new. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, straight copy of the first hardcover edition; one page corner turned down, else very Near Fine in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Large octavo. Maroon cloth boards; dustjacket; 571pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, straight copy of the first hardcover edition, fine ink underlining to several pages; several page corners turned down; Very Good. More
Oxford: Berg, 2007. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 358pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Tight, clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. More
Wilmette, Illinois: Films Incorporated, 1976. First Edition. First printing, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap. Large quarto (35.5cm.); black paper wrappers with photo-illustrations in b/w; 162pp. Tan newsprint stock with b/w photo-illustrations throughout; some mild wear and fading, age-related toning to margins; binding tight and sound. Cover has surface wear and..... More
New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, Inc., 2004. First Edition. A celebration of nearly a century of Italians in American cinema, covering the careers of Rudolph Valentino, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Marisa Tomei, James Gandolfini, and others. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); red paper-covered..... More
![My First Hundred Years in Hollywood [Inscribed to Cartha DeLoach]. FILM, Jack L. WARNER, Dean...](/pictures/medium/41772.jpg?v=1535494168)
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Autobiography of the well-known and highly-decorated head of Warner Brothers Studios. Inscribed to Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, head of the FBI's Criminal Records Division and a close confidant of J. Edgar Hoover's. He would eventually rise to the position of Deputy Associate Director during..... More
![Teenage Gang Debs [Original Film Pressbook]. FILM, JUVENILE DELINQUENCY](/pictures/medium/42963.jpg?v=1543273562)
New York: CIP Ltd., [1966]. First Edition. Original pressbook for Sande N. Johnson's 1966 exploitation film, starring Diane Conti, Linda Gale, and Eileen Dietz. "A no-good Manhattan girl moves in on a Brooklyn gang. Using her obvious charms she gets the leader killed in a fight over her and then..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1932. First Edition. Stage play in seven "Episodes." A parable of the growth of American industry, told from the point of view of an Irish slag-dumper who rises to the presidency of a giant machine plant. Flavin won the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Journey..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1994. First Edition Thus. The Broadside Poets Theatre, established by Dudley Randall in 1980, is a weekly reading/performance series featuring the work of young Black writers. Broadside, 11" x 8.5". Printed in black on green card stock. Broadside Poets Theater, No. 6. Fine, unworn copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards, stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 156pp. Fine, tight copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped but with shallow loss along upper front panel and a few small chips at extremities; Very Good. Play set in..... More
[New York]: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1906. First Separate Edition. Compliments card of the author and his associate the Chicago businessman Charles R. Crane tipped to front free endpaper, the previous owner having also added brief relevant ink notes in margins of p. [1]--"On the day following the burning..... More
Honfleur: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1968]. First Edition. Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's yellow printed card wrappers, French flaps; 46pp. Spine a hint sunned, else Fine condition. Poetry collection by the French translator, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. First American Edition. The author's account of exiled film director Miguel Littín, who returns to his native Chile to shoot a clandestine film about life under Pinochet's rule. First Printing. Octavo; beige paper and dark yellow paper-covered boards, with titlest stamped in red..... More
Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 334pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Mild external dusting and wear; internally clean tight and unmarked; VG or better. More
Worms: Georg Heintz, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 145pp. Slight tanning to text paper, else Very Good - a clean, tight copy. More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Collection of stories and essays (some falling under the mystery genre) by William Schwenck Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) written during his early career as a writer for magazines. Many of the stories, including "Foggerty's Fairy," "Creatures of Impulse," "The Wicked..... More
![Nobody's Business: Stories [Review Copy]. Penelope GILLIATT](/pictures/medium/41277.jpg?v=1532384709)
New York: Viking Press, [1972]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; [6],185pp. Some light dust-soil to jacket, a few tiny chips, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip and author photograph laid in. Short story collection by the English-born..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1965. First Edition. Volume documenting the International Poetry Reading at Royal Albert Hall in London, June 11, 1965. Includes poems by Ginsberg, Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Andrei Voznesensky, and others. First Printing. Slim octavo (20cm.); original black photo-illustrated card wrappers; [8],71pp.; film stills throughout. Some trivial wear..... More
![Warszawski Przewodnik Teatralny [Warsaw Theater Guide]. Beata GO CIK](/pictures/medium/31926.jpg?v=1529353673)
Warszawa: [Wydzia Kultury i Sztuki], 1988. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; 67pp.; photographic illus. throughout, color map laid in. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Guidebook to the theaters of Warsaw. No copies in North America according to OCLC as of November, 2016... More
