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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1999. iii, 268 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. A fine copy of the first printing. '66 Frames chronicles encounters with Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg and many others as - in the words of Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 'the young Southern innocent sets forth in all his whiteness to find himself among visionary New York poets and other flaming creatures.' Gordon Ball offers a swirl of sixties life - working as assistant to film pioneer Jonas Mekas in his Third Avenue loft; visits with Andy Warhol at his Factory; antiwar marches - in a journey through the decade that took visual imagery outside the box, beyond the frame." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press; The Bedford Series in History and Culture, 1994. xiv, 274 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This documentary history fills a long-standing need for a short yet comprehensive treatment of McCarthyism. The book is divided into two sections. The first is a compelling essay of about one-hundred pages in which the author discusses the origins and escalation of the anti-Communist campaign in the U.S. in the thirties and forties and how that campaign functioned and eventually sputtered to an end in the fifties. The second part of the book consists of twenty-two original documents - transcripts from congressional hearings, FBI reports, speeches, etc. - which illustrate the issues and events the author discusses in her essay. Also included in the volume is an extensive bibliographical essay on scholarly debates surrounding McCarthyism from the 1950s onward, a chronology, and photographs and cartoons from the period." - Publisher..… Read More

Milan: Skira, 2019. Pictorial boards, 149 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Translation of: Alfred Hitchcock: il cinema ai bordi del nulla. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museo della grafica, Pisa, Italy, April 7 to September 1, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Despite the particularly short-sighted and obtuse critics who for years have considered Hitchcock merely a lover of useless and dangerous toys, a puritanical, complex fat man who was also obsessed with crime, blood and sex, he has revealed to us that the ordered world we thought we lived in is nothing but a formless chaos and that its apparent order is only a mask continually destined to crumble. [.] There is a sort of lucid, vertiginous and disorienting nihilism in Hitchcock's cinema. It puts our greedy fat man, the one who claimed to offer his audience tranches de ga^teau rather than tranches de vie, not only among the greatest… Read More

New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. 316 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2008. 339 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original 'crime of the century' and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself--a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith. / HOWARD BLUM is the author of eight previous books, including the national bestsellers Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, and Gangland. Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Blum was also a reporter at the New York Times, where he won numerous journalism awards and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003. 342 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "Among the Mansions of Eden is a fascinating and dishy exploration of Beverly Hills -- a rarefied community that has become a part of our country's mythos, a city renowned for its ostentatious displays of wealth. It takes you behind the gates of the rich and famous for an insider's view of the elite's rapturous and tragic attempts to realize the American Dream. From Rodeo Drive to Beverly Hills High School, Among the Mansions of Eden tells the city's story by capturing the individuals who are emblematic of various factions of Beverly Hills society: The cast of unforgettable characters includes the late Milton Berle, who spent his last days surrounded by aging cronies in the cavernous ballroom of the Friars Club, haunted by the ghosts… Read More

Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989. 83 pages, illustrations, filmography; 24 x 26 cm. Published to document the film series "Photography and the Moving Image," 27 May to 13 August 1989, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow," 7 May to 30 July 1989." Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by J. Carter Brown; Acknowledgements, by Annette Michelson; The Art of Moving Shadows, by Annette Michelson; Still Images in Motion: The Influence of Photography on Motion Pictures in the Early Silent Period, by Patrick Loughney; Structuring the Moving Picture Image: The Classic Hollywood Narrative, by Douglas Gomery; Filmography, by Michael Zryd.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; New American Library, 1975. 160 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "The Art of Walt Disney is one of Abrams' enduring classics. Thirty years and well over half a million copies after its first publication in 1973, it is still considered the definitive study of The Walt Disney Company's vast artistic achievements through the decades. The book tells the remarkable story of Walt Disney and the company he built, from Mickey Mouse to animated feature films to theme parks. / Christopher Finch is a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and the author of more than 20 books, including The Art of the Lion King, Jim Henson: The Works, and Abrams' Norman Rockwell's America." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Abradale Press; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1993. Cloth, 458 pages, illustrations (some colour); 35 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Superficial dampstain with a little rippling on the first half-dozen leaves, age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The Art of Walt Disney is one of Abrams' enduring classics. Thirty years and well over half a million copies after its first publication in 1973, it is still considered the definitive study of The Walt Disney Company's vast artistic achievements through the decades. The book tells the remarkable story of Walt Disney and the company he built, from Mickey Mouse to animated feature films to theme parks. / Christopher Finch is a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and the author of more than 20 books, including The Art of the Lion King, Jim Henson: The Works, and… Read More

London and New York: Verso, 2002. Cloth, 484 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Based in part on lectures and seminars presented 1991-1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion, winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award for "the world's best book on the moving image", is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures she emphasizes that 'sight' and 'site' but also 'motion' and 'emotion' are irrevocably connected. In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messagem: the film-making of Peter Greenaway and Michaelangelo Antonioni; the… Read More

New York: HarperBusiness, 2003. xvi, 381 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "There is no more astute, brutally honest, and entertaining chronicler of assorted media-world implosions than New York magazine's National Magazine Award-winning columnist Michael Wolff. As once-mighty media empires -- and reputations -- have teetered and fallen over the past several years, Wolff has sorted through the wreckage (which he had often foretold) and fearlessly deconstructed the peculiar psychology behind the mess: the delusional ambitions of moguls -- and their yes-men -- whose outsized ambitions and empire-building ways have brought the media business to the brink of ruin. A former media entrepreneur himself (he told the story of the rise and fall of his own formidable Internet company in his best-selling memoir, Burn Rate), Wolff has had a ringside seat as the conglomeratized worlds of newspapers, magazines,… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 672 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. First Edition, First Printing. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Penguin Press, 2016. xii, 291 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that while individual critics--himself included--can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of modern existence. Using his own film criticism as a starting point--everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animinated Ratatouille--Scott expands outward, easily guiding readers through the complexities of… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1998. Cloth, 176 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First Edition. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. viii, 595 pages, [16] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Prologue: Let there be light; pt. 1. The shining light and the huddled masses: A cheap form of amusement; The era of Sunrise; The cinema of winter; M; State film, film state; The extraordinary adventures of Mr. Bolshevik in the West; 1930s Hollywood; France; Renoir; American; Ambersons; Howard Hawks : the "Slim" years; Films were started; Brief encounter; War; Italian cinema; Ingrid sees a movie; Sing a noir song; pt. 2. Sunset and change; pt. 3. Film studies; pt. 4. Dread and desire: Dread and desire; To own the summer; Brave new northern California world; What is a director?; Silence or Sinatra?; The numbers and the numbness; Epilogue: I wake up screening.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; Discoveries Ser., 1995. 175 pages, illustrations (some colour); 18 cm. First published under title: Cinematographe, invention du siecle. Translated from the French by Susan Emanuel. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2017. 304 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Michael Deeley, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "One man links The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Oscar-winning producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fight wars to get these movies made, from defending the legendary sex scene of Don't Look Now from a disapproving Warren Beatty to seizing control of Convoy from a cocaine-ridden Sam Peckinpah. This is a no-holds-barred look at the true stories behind some of the greatest cult movies ever made. Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off is essential for any fan of cult film, British cinema, or simply of a fascinating story told well." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group; Birch Lane Press, 1996. xix, 284 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In The Blue and the Gray on the Silver Screen, film scholar Roy Kinnard presents a retrospective of nearly one hundred films which deal directly or peripherally with the Civil War period. Readers will relive such classics as The Red Badge of Courage and So Red the Rose as well as more recent films such as Sommersby and Gettysburg. Included are such comic films as Buster Keaton's classic The General and Red Skelton's A Southern Yankee. Each description includes a cast list, credits, and reviews. Complete with nearly 200 photographs illustrating the text, the book is in itself a record of the war as portrayed by Hollywood." "With attention to detail and its careful analysis of how each movie reflected the period in which it was made, The Blue and the Gray on the Silver Screen… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Cloth, xv, 422 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners bumped. Age toning, foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket with light edgewear. CONTENTS: The Origins of the Movie Gangster; The Roaring Twenties: The Rise of the Gangster Movie; The Depression: From Gangster to G-Man; The Gangster Genre 1935-1976.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Brasilia: Ministry of External Relations, 1976. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. First published under title: Arte Brasileira. Translated from the Portuguese. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine bumped at the crown, corner creasing on back cover. Stated "First Edition." Profusely illustrated. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Good. Folio.