New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bete frontis. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with soiling and rubbing throughout, predominantly to edges. Spine..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1962. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 457pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, chiefly at spine ends, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good overall. Prospectus postcard laid in. French film-maker Jean Renoir's memoirs of his father, the painter Auguste Renoir. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 224 pp. Photographs from the film throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; book in plum cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with light creasing to inner flaps, but with no chips or tears. Boards are..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2016. Glossy wraps. Octavo. 415 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Unread. Binding is sound. Inoffensive smudge to top of text block. Pages unmarked. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 218 pages. Black and white photographs + foldout list of plates at rear. Photographic dust jacket. Light brown boards stamped in dark brown. Light wear and staining along edges of dust jacket. Vertical crease along front flap..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket split in two parts with much of the spine section missing, large tears and chips..... More
Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Advance Reading Copy. Signed by author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 390pp. Pictorial paper wraps with publisher's info on back. Cover has only minor edgewear and rubbing, no tears or chips. Back lower left corner has been slightly bumped and there..... More
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. Second Edition. Octavo. 735 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Black boards with spine stamped in white and front stamped in white with red label. Light wear to corners, with a slight roll to spine. Sticker to rear board. Binding is sound and pages..... More
[New York]: Film Daily, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's gold cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 368pp.; illus. throughout, including pictorial ads. Boards scuffed with exposure along extremities and corners, general soil and some surface scratches, else Good overall, internally fine. The first directory to be issued following the..... More
[New York]: Film Daily, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's silver cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 400pp.; illus. throughout, including pictorial ads. Boards rather scuffed with exposure along extremities, a few surface scratches, especially to rear cover, else Good to Very Good, internally sound. Includes the actors' and agents' telephone..... More
[New York]: Film Daily, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's black decorative cloth embossed in red; 495pp.; illus. throughout, including pictorial ads. Light wear, minor soil to early leaves, else Very Good or better. Includes a "Who's Who in Hollywood," lead by Cecil B. De Mille and Louis B...... More
![Protect and Defend [Signed by 118 Washington VIPs]. Jack Valenti](/pictures/thumb/6158.jpg?v=1582661244)
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [iii] + 299pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Gray boards with blue cloth spine, lettered in gold. Unclipped jacket is pristine, as new. Binding as new; textblock unmarked, seemingly never read. Jack Valenti, special assistant to Lyndon Johnson in the mid-60s, and..... More
First Edition. New York: The Noonday Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author John Kisch, Introduction author Donald Bogle (both with inscription), and without inscription by Preface author Spike Lee. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); xxxiii, 168p. Illustrated paper covers with full-color illustrations throughout. Covers very lightly bumped at bottom..... More
London / New York: Crosby Lockwood & Son / The Industrial Book Co., 1931. Later Printing of the 1930 First Edition. Octavo; 194pp +1 ads. 36 photo plates including frontis, all present. Black patterned cloth with white lettering. Missing dust jacket. Covers a bit scuffed and smudged, with shallow chips..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Stated First American Edition with full numberline. Quarto; 236 pp. Color and black and white photos throughout. Photo-portrait dust jacket with original $25.00 price intact; book in black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket crisp with very light bumping to top..... More
London: Dead Language and Matrix Presses, [1959]. Long, narrow quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers, yapp edges; [20]pp.; text printed on white and lavender stock. Extremities a bit rubbed and toned, light soiling to wrappers, else Very Good, internally fine. One of the English-Italian underground filmmaker's..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945. Later Printing. Signed by Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America head Will H. Hays on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Saffire [sic], with best wishes always. Sincerely yours, Bill Hays. 1/25/50." Octavo; 266pp. Photo frontis + 8 photo illustrations, all present..... More
![Celebrity Caricature in America [Signed]. Wendy Wick Reaves](/pictures/thumb/001660.jpg?v=1581091684)
New Haven / London: Smithsonian Institution / Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title wiht inscription "To Harry, With great respect and gratitude--I'm lucky to have you as a colleague. Wendy May 1998." Quarto; xiii, 306pp. Illustrated dust jacket over..... More