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Cinema Books 2018 Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, Inc. 5 Third Street, Suite 530 San Francisco, CA 94103 t: (415) 292-4698 [email protected] CINEMA BOOKS 2018 1. Anderson, John. Box Office. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1929). First $35 edition. Blue cloth, fine, very good dust jacket faded, with light edge wear. Christmas 1933 gift inscription. [31798] 2. Aylesworth, Thomas G. Broadway to Hollywood. Gallery Books (1985). Cloth, fine in $12 dust jacket. [12024] 3. Baer, "Bugs" ; and Henry Major. Hollywood with "Bugs" Baer and Henry Major. No $100 Place: (1938). First edition. Cloth, with leather label. Fine. One of 800 numbered copies, signed by Baer. [31636] 4. Balaban, Carrie. Continuous Performance. The story of A.J. Balaban as told to $35 his wife. New York: Putnam, (1942). First edition. Cloth, very good in dust jacket. [31581] 5. Balázs, Béla (pseud. of Herbert Bauer). Der sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des $275 Films. Wien / Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. Original printed wrappers with expressionist design by Tibor Gergely. Slight wear. Scarce in this condition. Considered the first important book on silent film aesthetics. Viejo, Film Books: A Visual History, 3.4. [23305] 6. Bardèche, Maurice ; and Robert Brasillach. The History of Motion Pictures. $75 Translated and edited by Iris Barry. New York: Norton, (1938). First edition. Red clpth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket. [31584] 7. Barrymore, John. Confessions of an Actor. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926. First $150 edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. [31696] 1 8. Ben-Allah. Rudolph Valentino: His Romantic Life and Death. Hollywood: $50 Ben-Allah Company, 1926. First edition. Wrappers, 132 pp., Slight wear, near-fine. [31682] 9. Benayoun, Robert. Two autograph letters signed to Stephen Schwartz. 1968, 1975. $150 Gives permission to translate his work, agrees to write for Coppola's City magazine, discussion of movies: "Godard films don't hold. Breathless [is] anachronistic crap. [They] were so modish that they don't even belong to the time capsule." On the non-activity among surrealists, his own films "The critics said I was the only real son of Bunuel, which was being very mean to Juan Luis Bunuel and Carlos Saura...I've been asked to do a 6-hour movie on Bunuel...[he] is the only surrealist director I recognize. I am not. " Good content. [18572] 10. Bennett, Alfred Gordon. Cinemania. London: Jarrolds, (1937). First edition. Cloth, slight $125 lean; very good copy in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. [31582] AWARD WINNING SCRIPT 11. Benton, Robert. Kramer vs Kramer. Screenplay by Robert Benton. Based on the $900 novel by Avery Corman. (1978). Revised third draft, dated July 14, 1978. 132 pages, mimeographed [?] clasp-bound in plain binder with typed label. Copy no. 49, issued to Harold McConnell of the Art Department, with his signature and occasional handwritten notes concerning props. Benton also directed. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep. It won the five top Academy Awards (1979), including best picture, and both best director and best writer, for Benton. [28765] 12. Bessy, Maurice. HIstoire en 1000 images du cinéma. Paris: Editions du Pont Royal, $35 1962. First edition. Illustrated boads, fine. [31607] 13. Bitzer, G.W. Billy Bitzer: His Story Introduction by Beaumont Newhall. New York: $20 Farrar, Straus, (1973). First edition. Cloth, fine in price-clipped dust jacket. The autobiography of D.W. Griffith's master cameraman. [31807] 14. Bloem, Walter S. ; [Walter Julius Bloem]. The Soul of the Moving Picture Translation $75 by Allen W. Porterfield. New York: Dutton, 1924. First edition. Cloth, fine, ownership stamp. xx pages, 1 leaf, 168 pages frontispiece, 21 plates 20 cm. Although this book is frequently mis-catalogued, it was written not by the famous noveist Walter Bloem (1868–1952), but his son Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945). The German edition “Seele des Lichtspiels. Ein Bekenntnis zum Film”, (1922) was published under his pseudonym Walter Koll. [31799] THE QUEEN OF SPACE OPERA 15. Brackett, Leigh and John K. Butler. The Vampire's Ghost. (Screenplay). (1945). $1,250 Mimeographed, brad-fastened. Cover-title, 71 pages, on eye-rest green paper, dated 9/9/44. The first script written by Leigh Brackett, although she had been publishing science-fiction stories for several years, and collaborated with William Faulkner on The Big Sleep (released in 1946), for Howard Hawks, which she began on Aug. 28, 1944. Collaborating here with veteran 2 John K. Butler, she adapted her own original story for this Republic Studios production, released in May 1945. It would be 14 years before she returned to screen writing, with "Rio Bravo" [28734] 16. Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Screenplay. (1983). $750 Screenplay by Bradbury from his own novel. Cover title. 126 pages, brad-bound. Dated as "Revised 8/24/81". Title penned on spine edge. Inside rear cover notes this a the "prop shop copy" and there is a short handwitten "buy-list". Fine. [28762] 17. Brooks, Mel. Mel Brooks's Silent Movie. Screenplay. Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. $400 Original screenplay, by Brooks, with Ron Clark, Rudy DeLuca, and Barry Levinson. Mimeographed on "eye-rest" green paper, dated November 19, 1975, with revisions on yellow paper dated 12/11/1975, [31800] 18. Brownlow, Kevin. Behind the Mask of Innocence. London: Cape (1990).: (1990). $25 First edition. Cloth, fine in dust jacket. [4218] 19. Busch, Niven. Duel in the Sun. (Screen treatment of Busch's novel). (1946). $75 Mimeographed, 23-page undated early treatment of Busch's novel, mimeographed cover, brad bound. Some spotting to cover; very good. Other than Busch's, no name appears in this treatment. The adaptation credit went to Oliver H.P. Garrett, and the screenplay was written by David O. Selznick (aided by uncredited Ben Hecht). [28756] 20. Cameron, James R. and ; John F. Rider. Sound Pictures and Trouble Shooters $50 Manual. Brooklyn: Cameron Publishing, (1930). First edition. Cloth, worn at top of the spine else a very good copy. 1104 pp. [31637] 21. Catalogue of the Stories and Plays Owned by Fox Film Corporation.... 1931. $35 Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1931. Red cloth, gilt, near fine condition. Numbered edition. [28980] 22. Cinema Arts. Vol. 1, Preview issue, and issues number 1 and 3. New York: $600 Cinema Magazine, 1936-1937. First edition. This deluxe annual produced one additional issue Issue 1: Folio, 11.5 inches x 14 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards with cover portrait of Greta Garbo by Jaro Fabry. Light wear to extremities, very good condition. Limited edition, specially bound and numbered. With the publisher's presentation to Edward G. Robinson. Issue 3 has the publisher's presentation to Leslie Howard. [31458] 23. The Cinema: Its Present Position and Future Possibilities. London: Williams and $150 Norgate, 1917. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt, faded; pages browned owing to poor paper quality of the epoch, else a very good copy. Subtitled "Report and chief evidence taken by 3 the Cinema Commission of Inquiry instituted by the National Council of Public Morals". [31655] 24. Clair, René . Cinéma d'hier, cinéma d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Gallimard, 1970. First $500 edition. Wrappers, service de presse copy. 372 pp. Fine. Inscribed "pour Raymond Queneau avec remerciemnts (v.p. 310) de son dévoué Satrape et ami / René Clair". Clair and Queneau were both Satrapes of the Collége de 'Pataphysique. Queneau is quoted on page 310. [25493] 25. [Clemens, Samuel L.] Mark Twain. The Movie Story of Tom Sawyer. Racine, Wisc.: $85 Whitman Publishing Co., 1931. First edition. Colored pictorial boards, 20 pp., edges a little rubbed, very good. "The colored pictures in this book are from photographs taken from scenes from the Paramount Pictures 'Tom Sawyer.' In preparation, screen version of 'Huckleberry Finn'. The front cover reads: "The Story of Tom Sawyer with Jackie Coogan." Junior Durkin played Huck. This 1930 release was the first Twain talking picture. [24131] 26. Cooke, Alistair. Douglas Fairbanks. New York: Museum of Modern Art (1940). : $35 Museum of Modern Art, (19400. First edition. Boards, fine, tissue jacket.Museum of Modern Art Film Library Series, no. 2.Cover design by E. McKnight Kauffer. [31809] 27. Coppola, Francis Ford. Heaven Can Wait. 2nd Draft screenplay. 1969. Screenplay $500 by Coppola, based on the Harry Segall play (previously filmed as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941, and then in 1978 under this its original title).115 pages. Mimeographed, brad-fastened, covers with light edge wear, title and date inked on spine. Unproduced. This script was written for Bill Cosby, and he was to play a boxer in his first film role, a black version of the classic. Cosby's manager, Roy Silver, had bought the rights, and commissioned the script, but before Cosby was available, he and Silver split up. [28736] 28. Coppola, Francis Ford ;and Ishioka, Eiko. Coppola and Eiko on Bram Stoker's $250 Dracula. San Francisco: Collins, (1992). First edition. Inscribed by Eiko to a Collins executive.Boards, as new in dust jacket. [20143] 29. Cowan, Lester (ed.) ; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Recording Sound $75 for Motion Pictures. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1931. First edition. Cloth, very good. [31703] Contents: President / William C. de Mille -- Foreword / Carl Dreher -- The ancestry of sound pictures / H.G. Knox -- The nature of sound / A.W. Nye -- Sound Recording Equipment. Introduction to recording / Lester Cowan -- Recording sound on disc / Nugent H. Slaughter -- Sound recording by RCA photophone system / Ralph H. Townsend -- Sound recording by Fox Movietone system / E.H. Hansen -- Sound recording by the light-valve system / Donald MacKenzie -- Transmission circuits - theory and operation / John K. Hilliard -- Accessory and special equipment / L.E. Clark -- Dubbing / Kenneth F. Morgan -- The Film Record. The film as a recording medium / Emery Huse -- Photographic requirements of variable-density recording / Wesley C.
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