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
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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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original decorative cloth-backed boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [10],478pp. Jacket extremities a bit worn with a few short closed tears with subsequent creasing. Fine in Very Good jacket. Historical novel set in the Victorian London theatrical world. 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
![Passages from Finnegans Wake [...] A Free Adaptation for the Theater. James JOYCE, adaptation...](/pictures/medium/24125.jpg?v=1529353418)
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
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
![Darkness At Noon: A Play [...] Based on the novel by Arthur Koestler. Sidney KINGSLEY, Arthur...](/pictures/medium/20585.jpg?v=1529353281)
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
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, [2005]. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxvi,266pp.; 16 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, faint soil spot to jacket spine, else Near Fine. Biography of the Russian ballet dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1939]. First Thus. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in red and black, French flaps; 95pp. Some dust-soil, shallow crease at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Separate edition of Norwegian playwright Krog's interwar play first published as..... More
![Weaponized Bottle Opener] Do Not Patronize Theatres Where Local 306 Is Picketing. LABOR HISTORY,...](/pictures/medium/47940.jpg?v=1585107305)
[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: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1970]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (18x26.5cm.); original simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 111pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit shelf worn with a couple short closed tears to top edge of rear panel not approaching text, top textblock edge a bit foxed..... 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. 7. "Inspired by a workshop given..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1995. 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 purple card stock. Broadside Poets Theater, No. 22. Fine, unworn copy. More
![Dempster's Original Ballad Soirees [Third Series]. Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW, contr., DEMPSTER,...](/pictures/medium/48742.jpg?v=1588040945)
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth's Print, 1847. First Edition. Contents only include the poems, not the musical compositions, which Dempster performed during his soirées. This series includes pieces by Longfellow, G.P. Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and others. BAL 345 and BAL 594. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed within decorative border; [24]pp.;..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow and blue decorative dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [10],301pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities, including short tear at bottom of upper jacket flap with subsequent creasing and tiny loss at top fore-edge corner, rear..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in red decorative dust jacket; [2],359pp.; photographic frontispiece, five leaves of plates. Jacket extremities lightly chipped and a shade darkened, white spine lettering additionally toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Near Fine in Very Good..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, [2002]. First American Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's boards in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,173pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Pinpoint wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Substantial catalog of an exhibition mounted in Lisbon and Madrid. More
![Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practive of the Movie Business [Signed]. David MAMET](/pictures/medium/39873.jpg?v=1529353968)
New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. First Edition. Series of essays detailing and reflecting on the inner workings of the movie business. First Printing. Octavo; red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,250,[8]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket..... More
