Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors & Actresses Affected by the Blacklist
Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 172pp. Fine in fine dustjacket; an apparently unused, unread copy. More
Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 172pp. Fine in fine dustjacket; an apparently unused, unread copy. More
New York: Film Culture, 1970. First Edition. Special double issue, guest-edited by Gordon Hitchens, devoted entirely to an examination of the 1950s Hollywood Red Scare. Contributors include Gordon Hitchens, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lew Irwin, Joseph Losey, many others. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 84pp; illus. Mild overall dusting and..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 247pp. Dampstaining to top and bottom edges of rear jacket panel, not bleeding into boards, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Jacket subtitle: "A Fan's Life." The author's..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original cloth, white printed paper spine label, white photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,189pp. Very tiny soil spot to upper jacket panel else a Near Fine copy. Lesser-known play first produced by and starring Katharine Cornell. Howard is best known for writing..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1933. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). Deep red cloth, titled in gilt on spine with gilt decoration to front board; dustjacket; 187pp. Near Fine in a well-preserved dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine panel, lined on verso with kraft paper. A five-act comedy, originally published under..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. First Edition. Biography of author and screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, his accomplishments in Hollywood, and his blacklisting during the McCarthy era. First Printing. Octavo; dark green paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; x,275,[3]pp; illus. Lower..... More
New York: Dell, [1959]. First Edition. First Printing. 12mo (16.25cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges green; 160pp. Some light edge wear, hairline crack to hinge at pp. 4/5, else Very Good or better. "Novelization of the TV series based on Huggins' character [Stuart Bailey]" (HUBIN, p. 215). More
N.p. [New York]: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, (1950). First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound thick paper wrappers; [8pp]; illus. A few spots of soil to front cover, else Near Fine. Special program for the inaugural screening (a few weeks before the World Premiere) of Jack Arnold's "With These Hands," a...... More
[Berlin]: Argon, [1992]. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); original silver photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 368pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Near Fine. Text entirely in German. History of Babelsberg Studio outside of Berlin, the oldest large-scale film studio in the world. More
Tokyo: Fuji Color Photo Company, Ltd, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Pictorial flexible boards; single leaf of text (bilingual, English & Japanese) with ten mounted 35mm color transparencies. About fine. Eighth in a series of similar photographic books from Fuji, each containing 10 color transparencies on a different..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in dark grey pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],75pp. General light shelf wear to top dust jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better overall. More
[Los Angeles]: Warner Brothers, 1938. Rare odd-size promotional broadside for the 1938 Warner Brothers exploitation drama "Crime School," starring Humphrey Bogart and the Dead End Kids. In addition to stills and renderings from the film, the piece includes a full plot synopsis - something not included on any of the..... More
Paris: Librairie Illustrée, 1875. Octavo (27cm). Marbled paper over boards, backed in green cloth, titled in gilt on spine; [iv], [viii], 226, [2]pp; 6 full-page character illustrations colored in pochoir, and numerous in-text wood engravings; with 7pp of printed music for songs by Offenbach. A straight, sturdy copy, externally rubbed..... More
Munich: Prestel, [2006]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (25x30.5cm.); publisher's boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 213pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of nine theater-related conceptual projects by the Russian-born artists. Bilingual text in German and English. More
New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, 1939. Novelization of the 1929 Columbia Pictures feature film, directed by Roy William Neill and Starring Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle. The film was released just a month after the Crash and features, in its climactic scene, the suicide of a Wall Street big-wig by..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. First commercial printing. Octavo (20cm). Printed paper-covered boards with cloth joints exposed (as issued); xvi,207,(3)pp; frontispiece portrait of Lynne Fontanne, who debuted the role of Dulcy, by Neysa McMein; four inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones), being stills from the 1921 Cort..... More
New York: Random House, [1951]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in black and gilt dust jacket, red topstain; [12],117pp.; photographic double-page title page, 3 leaves of photographic plates. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including two short closed tears to top edge of upper panel, one touching a...... More
Boston: Privately Printed, 1898. First Thus. Sextodecimo (15cm); sewn; issued in stiff paper wrappers, lettered from the types of the title page; 4 leaves- title and text; frontispiece; vignette designed by E.J Clark, printed in red, is repeated throughout, occupying half of each page; light rubbing; upper rear corner of..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1992]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's boards in black illustrated dust jacket; xxxiii,[1],168pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. A richly-illustrated volume, documenting African-American film posters from 1915-1965. More
[New York]: Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 / A.F.L., n.d., ca. 1932. Presumably issued during the 1932 union wars between the New York-based Moving Picture Operators Union Local 306 and the Empire State Motion Picture Union. The dispute came to a head on a Monday evening in early September..... More
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1989. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in maroon pictorial dust jacket; xx,385pp.; color illus. throughout. Some minor shelf wear and very brief white paint smear at bottom edge of rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Edition. "Dostoevsky and Soviet Film blends three major motifs with ease and elegance: an analysis of all films produced in the Soviet Union which used Dostoevsky's fiction, as well as those planned but never realised; a history of the Soviet film industry spanning prerevolutionary..... More
[Paris]: Marval / Mission du Patrimoine Photographique, [1994]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); publisher's boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 195pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, chiefly along bottom edges, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better. Text entirely in French. More
New York: Carlton Press, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Small, slim octavo (21cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 33pp. About fine in a slightly rubbed and faded dustwrapper with 1/4" loss at crown of spine, old price sticker affixed (apparently permanently) to front cover; just Very Good. Scarce author-published biography of Alabama..... More