BASINGER, JEANINE

The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre

NY, Columbia Univ Pr. 1986, 1st. (ISBN: 0231059523). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Columbia Univ Pr. 1986, first printing. 8vo. xi+373pp. illus. b/w stills. Yellow cloth with bronze titles. Light dust spotting on top edge of page block, else fine in near fine dust jacket with a few small nicks. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010369

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: Military 0231059523

BISKIND, PETER

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

NY, Simon & Schuster. 2004, 1st. (ISBN: 068486259x). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004, first printing. 8vo. x+544pp. illustrated with b/w plates. Mild, uniforming toning to paper, small stain on edge of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010071

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 068486259x

BLAINE, DAVID

Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic

NY, Villard Books. 2002, 1st. (ISBN: 0375505733). Hard, Small 4to. First edition. Hard cover in pictorial boards. Published NY: Villard Books, 2002. Small 4to. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2", ix+214pp. lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Light foxing on front edge of page block and half title. Near fine. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009801

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0375505733

MARX BROTHERS

The Marx Brothers Poster Book

London, Zachary Kwinter Books. 1991. (ISBN: 1872532357). Soft Cover, Folio. Softcover. Published London: Zachary Kwinter Books, 1991. Folio wrappers, 10 3/4" x 15", unpaginated. Full page black and white classic stills from their movies. Fine. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010144

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 1872532357

BUSCOMBE, EDWARD (ED.) SCHICKEL, RICHARD (FOREWORD)

The B. F. I. Companion to the Western

NY, Atheneum. 1988, 1st. (ISBN: 0689119623). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Atheneum, 1988, first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", 432pp. richly illustrated with b/w photos, map endpapers. Black cloth with silver titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 010524

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0689119623

CHENEY, SHELDON

The Theatre: Three Thousand Years of Drama, Acting and Stagecraft

NY, Tudor Publishing. 1937. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover. Published NY: Tudor Publishing, 1929, sixth printing (1937). 8vo. ix+558pp. illustrated with b/w reproductions. Red cloth with decorative gilt and titles, red pictorial endpapers, top edge tinted red. Very good plus, clean, bright, attractive. Trimmed rear dust jacket panel and flap laid in. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010176

Catalogue: Performing Arts

CLAYTON, MARIE

Marilyn Monroe: Unseen Archives

NY, Barnes & Noble Books. 2004. Soft Cover, 4to. Trade soft cover. Published NY: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004. Small 4to. wrappers with French flaps, 8 1/2" x 10 1/2", 383pp. illustrated with hundreds of b/w photos. Fine. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009366

Catalogue: Performing Arts

EAMES, JOHN DOUGLAS

The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years

NY, Crown. 1982. (ISBN: 0517523892). Hard, Folio. Second Revised Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Crown, 1982. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", 408pp. illustrated with over 1,000 photographs and stills from MGM films from the early days of silent films, through the golden age of the 1930s and 1940s right up to the early 1980s. Brown cloth with silver titles and cover design. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a closed edge tear. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010153

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0517523892

EAMES, JOHN DOUGLAS

The Paramount Story - The Complete History of the Studio and its 2,805 Films

NY, Crown. 1985, 1st. (ISBN: 0517553481). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Crown, 1985. First printing. Folio, 9 3/4" x 13", 368pp. over 1,000 illustrations. Blus cloth with white and yellow spine and cover titles, pictorial endpapers. "Provides a year-by-year description of major films by the Hollywood studio, and includes cast, credits, synopsis, and a list of the studio's Academy awards and nominations." Minor rub to the edges, small bump abrasion to top corner of front cover. Very good, plus - clean, bright, tight in very good plus dust jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 010255

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0517553481

ERWIN, ELLEN & JESSICA Z. DIAMOND; FOREWORD BY SEAN HEPBURN FERRER

The Audrey Hepburn Treasures

NY, Atria. 2006, 1st. (ISBN: 0743289862). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover issued without dust jacket. "A scrapbook-style souvenir album of Hepburn interviews, photos, and replicated memorabilia includes pieces from the late actress's estate and is complemented by removable elements and anecdotes by friends and family members." Published NY: Atria, 2006, first printing. 4to. 8 1/2" x 11", 192pp. illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs and vellum pockets containing facsimile memorabilia from her life. Pictorial laminated boards. Slight bump to one corner of front board, else fine. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010168

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0743289862

FINCH, CHRISTOPHER

The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms

NY, Harry N. Abrams. 1983. (ISBN: 0810980525). Hard, Folio. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. Large, thick folio, 11" x 13 1/2", 458pp. 763 illustrations, 361 in full color, many fold-outs. White cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Faint to mild foxing of edges of page block and cloth edges, small stain on flyleaf, else very good, clean, bright, straight and tight in very good dust jacket with a corner chip and a closed tear at the rear flap fold. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009926

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0810980525

ROBERTS-FRENZEL, CAREN

Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective

NY, Harry N. Abrams. 2001, 1st. (ISBN: 0810914344). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2001, first printing. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12", 240pp. illus. 297 b/w and color photographs. "Remarkable publicity photos, film stills, rehearsal shots, candids taken with family and friends, and of course that famous World War II pinup trace Rita Hayworth's entire life. Spanning her rise from starlet to star, her marriages to famous men such as Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan, and Dick Haymes, and her tragic death from Alzheimer's disease, here is an insightful and dazzling tribute-in words and pictures-to one of the great screen icons." Fine, as new in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 010450

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0810914344

GARAFOLA, LYNN

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

NY, Da Capo Pr. 1998. (ISBN: 0306808781). Soft Cover, 8vo. Trade soft cover. Published NY: Da Capo, 1998. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 9", xviii+524pp. illustrated with b/w photos. "Diaghilev's Ballets Russes is the most authoritative history of the company ever written and the first to examine it as a totality—its art, enterprise, and audience. Combining social and cultural history with illuminating discussions of dance, drama, music, art, economics, and public reception, Lynn Garafola paints an extraordinary portrait of the company that shaped ballet into what it is today." Very good plus. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009143

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 0306808781

GARLAND, BROCK

War Movies

NY, Facts On File. 1987, 1st. (ISBN: 0816012067). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Facts on File, 1987, first printing. Small 4to. 230pp. illustrated with over 80 stills from feature-length war films. Critical appraisals of 450 films. Black cloth with gilt titles. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with a split at the front flap fold. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 010648

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: Military 0816012067

GODARD, JEAN LUC; SEGAL, ABRAHAM (ED.)

Jean Luc Godard filmographie complète de 1957 ) 1969 et légendes des 120 diapositives - Supplément à l'avant scène du Cinéma

Paris, L'avant scène du Cinéma. 1970, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. First edition. Softcover. Published Paris: L'avant scène du cinéma, 1970. Samll 8vo. stapled wrappers, 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", 48pp. Text in French. Mild sweat aliong top edge. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010054

Catalogue: Performing Arts