Author: AGEE, James
Title: Film Writing and Selected Journalism
Description: New York, The Library of America, 2005. Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 748pp, (5pp). Illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 160) of this selection, elaborated on title page as "Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments / Uncollected Film Writing / The Night of the Hunter / Journalism and Book Reviews." Interesting autograph addition: Agee's screenplay "Night of the Hunter" was turned into the 1955 film noire thriller starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish -- this last of whom has boldly signed in black fineline a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card tipped to an inner flyleaf. Gish (1896-1993) who portrays Rachel Cooper in the film, was nicknamed "The First Lady of the Silent Screen" and her many films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" (1915) to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" (1987). Quite an unusual copy. Laid in is the LOA leaflet for this volume. .
Keywords: American Literature
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Title: Film Writing and Selected Journalism
Description: New York, The Library of America, 2005. Hardcover. Edited by Michael Sragow. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, ivory slipcase. 748pp, (5pp). Illustrations, decorative endpapers, sewn-in tan satin page marker. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition thus (volume 160) of this selection, elaborated on title page as "Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments / Uncollected Film Writing / The Night of the Hunter / Journalism and Book Reviews." Interesting autograph addition: Agee's screenplay "Night of the Hunter" was turned into the 1955 film noire thriller starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish -- this last of whom has boldly signed in black fineline a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card tipped to an inner flyleaf. Gish (1896-1993) who portrays Rachel Cooper in the film, was nicknamed "The First Lady of the Silent Screen" and her many films ranged from silent classics such as "Birth of a Nation" (1915) to made-for-television dramas such as "The Whales of August" (1987). Quite an unusual copy. Laid in is the LOA leaflet for this volume. .
Keywords: American Literature
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50759
- Book number: 50759
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