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Published by Grove Press, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0802115403ISBN 13: 9780802115409
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 275 pages.
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Published by Viking Press, NY, 1972
ISBN 10: 0670467669ISBN 13: 9780670467662
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket is chipped, scuffed and rubbed with a closed tear on front. Cover is rubbed with edge wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Published by Univ of Wisconsin Pr, Madison, WI, 1979
ISBN 10: 0299079449ISBN 13: 9780299079444
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Trade Paperback. Near fine, no markings, flat spine with no cracks or creasing.
Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 1982
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition (softcover issue). [a nice clean as-new book, in flawless condition]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, which also touches briefly on the already well-established swashbuckling tradition in early films. The film, released in 1940, starred Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall and Claude Rains, was directed by Michael Curtiz, and featured one of the most glorious music scores in cinema history, by the great Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (You should seek out the soundtrack album and play it while reading this script!) (xx).
Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 1979
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition (softcover issue). [nice bright copy, as-new book, without even a hint of wear]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Typically excellent entry in this screenplay series, with an erudite introduction by noted scholar Rudy Behlmer, containing not only copious details about this production, but background on the Robin Hood legend and a brief discussion of other film treatments of same -- a topic about which, it should be noted, Mr. Behlmer was extremely knowledgeable. This, of course, is (as far as I'm concerned) the definitive Robin Hood movie, with Errol Flynn and a perfect supporting cast, one of the great movie scores (by Erich Wolfgang Korngold), and enough terrific moments, visual and verbal, for half-a-dozen movies. "Why -- you speak treason!" "Fluently." [The only problem with this series is its failure to give the names of the actual SCREENWRITERS the prominence they deserve -- their names are on neither the books' covers nor their title pages, but only on the first page of the scripts themselves. Tsk.] (xx).
Published by Grover Press, New York, 1993
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Paul Gamarello (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight clean book, with no discernible wear; the jacket shows only some extremely light wear along the top edge (effectively concealed inside a new mylar protector)]. (B&W photographs) In this brilliantly-edited and annotated selection of Hollywood studio memos, film historian Rudy Behlmer does for 20th Century-Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck what he had done for the equally legendary producer David O. Selznick more than twenty years earlier. Zanuck, although not as prodigiously wordy as Selznick had been, was also a helluva memo-writer, and among all the studio heads of Hollywood's Golden Age was probably the most perspicacious and insightful when it came to matters of story and structure -- no doubt due, at least in part, to the fact that he had started out as a writer himself. His memos and letters, which span the years 1936-1955, provide the reader with a "front-the-top, at-the-moment, insider's look at the myriad elements that went into the production of a feature film during the colorful days of the old studio system." The introduction is by screenwriter/producer Philip Dunne, who had worked for Zanuck on many pictures and remembered him as a boss who "treated his writers with the same respect as all other professionals -- perhaps even more so because, unlike star-rich M-G-M, Zanuck's new and relatively star-poor studio depended upon good screenplays." (xx).
Published by Avon, 1973
Seller: Books Do Furnish A Room, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages unmarked. Covers moderately worn. Some hollowing of spine. Stress lines on spine. Binding firm. Book.
Published by A S C Press, Hollywood, California, U.S.A., 1989
ISBN 10: 0935578099ISBN 13: 9780935578096
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. About fine with slight corner bumps. In good jacket with considerable scuffing and slight edge wear. No jacket chips. Some fraying along edges. No markings or bookplates. Beautifully printed in sepia-tone throughout. 24 chapters, each about films of great interest to film buff largely in the genres of fantasy, horror and mystery, but with a dash of adventure and romance. KING KONG, GUNGA DIN, WINGS, THE BAT, THE BLACK CAT, LAURA, OUT OF THE PAST, ROPE, MOST DANGEROUS GAME, and others are featured.
Published by Simon & Schuster (A Fireside Book) 1987 (c.1985), New York, 1987
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by (cover design) Stephanie Blumenthal (illustrator). 1st printing thus. [nice, as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) A fascinating compilation of memos and other correspondence from the Warner Bros. files -- primary documents that "recapture the conception, the second thoughts, the inspirations, doubts, conflicts, and triumphs that produced some of the most popular films ever made," including CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE BIG SLEEP, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, etc. Intelligently edited and annotated by one of our pre-eminent film historians, who had a special affection for the Warner Bros. pictures of that era. (xx).
Published by Grove Press, Inc. 1981 (c.1972), New York, 1981
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by (cover design) Paul McMillen (illustrator). 1st Evergreen Edition. [minor wear only to book, but there is a small hole punched in the front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The selection of memos -- from among two thousand file boxes of Selznick's papers -- was a monumental task, and although it was by necessity a highly selective process, at the end you feel like you've gotten a pretty comprehensive picture of DOS -- "at times pontificating and overly fussy," as the editor allows, but "also brilliant, knowledgeable, tasteful, painstaking, and possessed by what he was doing." The book itself was something of a landmark of cinema scholarship: never before had a book of film history (or biography) been presented as an assemblage of primary documents, and it's not saying too much to state that it raised the bar for future film historians' excavation of such archives. Quite fittingly included in the important bibliography "100 Books on Hollywood & the Movies." (xx).
Published by The Modern Library 2000 (c.1972), New York, 2000
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by (cover design) Patti Ratchford (illustrator). 1st Modern Library paperback edition. [a bit of wear at base of spine, very slight wrinkle at top right corner of front cover, light age-toning to edges of text block]. (Modern Library: The Movies) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The selection of memos -- from among two thousand file boxes of Selznick's papers -- was a monumental task, and although it was by necessity a highly selective process, at the end you feel like you've gotten a pretty comprehensive picture of DOS -- "at times pontificating and overly fussy," as the editor allows, but "also brilliant, knowledgeable, tasteful, painstaking, and possessed by what he was doing." The book itself was something of a landmark of cinema scholarship: never before had a book of film history (or biography) been presented as an assemblage of primary documents, and it's not saying too much to state that it raised the bar for future film historians' excavation of such archives. Quite fittingly included in the important bibliography "100 Books on Hollywood & the Movies." This edition contains a new introduction by Roger Ebert, as well as a series introduction by Martin Scorsese. (Thankfully, the original edition's introduction by S.N. Behrman has been retained as well.) (xx).
Published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1979
ISBN 10: 0299079406ISBN 13: 9780299079406
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. VG with light dirt soiling to page edges, internally tight, clean, no markings or bookplates in a fair to good dust jacket with some overall wear and tear (rubbing, dust soiling, short edge-tears, some of which have been reinforced with cello-tape from inside, and some abrasions near top of spine and corners with slight paper loss.) No major chips.
Published by grove press
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Macmillan 1973 (c.1972), London, 1973
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. 1st UK edition. [nice clean copy, just slightly bumped at the top of the spine but otherwise unblemished; the jacket is very lightly rubbed, with some minor wrinkling at the spine ends and an infinitesimal closed tear at the bottom of the front panel; it was also slightly mis-folded onto the book at the front foldover, with a resulting vertical wrinkle/crease along the left edge of the front flap]. (B&W photographs) An endlessly fascinating read-through of the correspondence files of the legendary producer of GONE WITH THE WIND and other classics (and an occasional non-classic) -- albeit, as editor Behlmer explains in his foreword, presenting "a rather one-sided case, with no opportunity for the several victims of Selznick's unhappiness or, in some instances, wrath, to offer rebuttals or countercharges." The selection of memos -- from among two thousand file boxes of Selznick's papers -- was a monumental task, and although it was by necessity a highly selective process, at the end you feel like you've gotten a pretty comprehensive picture of DOS -- "at times pontificating and overly fussy," as the editor allows, but "also brilliant, knowledgeable, tasteful, painstaking, and possessed by what he was doing." The book itself was something of a landmark of cinema scholarship: never before had a book of film history (or biography) been presented as an assemblage of primary documents, and it's not saying too much to state that it raised the bar for future film historians' excavation of such archives. Quite fittingly included in the important bibliography "100 Books on Hollywood & the Movies." ****NOTE that additonal postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book (which is a little bit heftier, in fact, than the original American edition); if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** (xx).
Published by Viking Press, New York, NY, 1972
Seller: a2zbooks, Burgin, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Book Club Edition. Text is clean, pages are no longer white and crisp, but are aged toned from passing time. DJ rate fair due to wear to all areas. Foxing to text block and limited pages. Text includes 60 plus pages of b/w photos of stars, business fiends and family. Book covers various subjects using the producer's private letters, memorandums. Book Club edition. Editor's foreword dated Feb., 1972. 549 pp. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561007144.
Published by University of Wisconsin Pres, Madison, 1982
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st edition. 8vo, 222 pp., A volume in the Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplay series, Screenplay by Howard Koch & Seton I. Miller for the 1940 film based on the Rafael Sabatini novel Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.
Published by The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 1982
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. First Edition. [a nice clean as-new book, with no wear whatsoever; the jacket would also be Fine but for a long vertical crease in the front flap]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, which also touches briefly on the already well-established swashbuckling tradition in early films. The film, released in 1940, starred Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall and Claude Rains, was directed by Michael Curtiz, and featured one of the most glorious music scores in cinema history, by the great Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (You should seek out the soundtrack album and play it while reading this script!) This series was primarily distributed in paperback editions, with the hardcover issues being commensurately harder to find. (xx).
Published by Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 1996
ISBN 10: 0810830280ISBN 13: 9780810830288
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [4],xii,135pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Issued as No. 46 of the publisher's Filmmakers series. Compilation of letters and journal entries kept by the filmmaker Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (1889-1943) during the shooting of the MGM silent adventure romance film "White Shadows in the South Seas" (1928). Unlike most Hollywood productions of the time, filming actually took place in Tahiti, rather than a built set: "Dec. 11, '27 - Picked out a location today right under some very tall palms where the coconuts can drop on you from any angle" (p. 21).
Published by Viking, New York, 1985
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Neil Stuart (illustrator). First Edition. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly rubbed, with a vertical wrinkle at the bottom of the front panel, some minor wear along the top edge, and a tiny closed tear at the top of the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating compilation of memos and other correspondence from the Warner Bros. files -- primary documents that "recapture the conception, the second thoughts, the inspirations, doubts, conflicts, and triumphs that produced some of the most popular films ever made," including CASABLANCA, THE MALTESE FALCON, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, MILDRED PIERCE, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE BIG SLEEP, THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, etc. Intelligently edited and annotated by one of our pre-eminent film historians, who had a special affection for the Warner Bros. pictures of that era. (xx).
Published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (c.1996), Lanham MD/London, 1996
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Sue Slutzky (illustrator). First Edition. [as-new, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) A fascinating little volume, the centerpiece of which -- the so-called "journal" -- is actually an edited version of a four lengthy letters, sent over the course of several months from the Tahiti location of WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS by its eventual director, W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke II, to his then girlfriend (and sometime script supervisor) Josephine Chippo, back in Los Angeles. The letters -- about equally divided between on-location reportage and pining-for-you expressions of his devotion -- were discovered in the early 1990s inside an old trunk at the home of a recently-deceased couple in the San Fernando Valley, and subsequently acquired by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library, where they are held today as the Josephine Chippo papers. I refer to Van Dyke as the "eventual" director of WHITE SHADOWS because that's not how things started out: the crew was originally dispatched to its distant location under the direction of the great documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the idea being that he would apply his documentarian's visual and ethnographic sensibilities to a dramatic romance of the South Seas, with Monte Blue and Raquel Torres as its stars. However, the producing studio (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), understandably dubious about Flaherty's ability to direct a fictional film, assigned Van Dyke to the company to assume responsibility for directing the picture's dramatic sequences. It was a big deal for Van Dyke, who had been directing primarily serials and westerns since 1917 but had only been under contract to M-G-M for about a year or so, and had yet to helm a major production. Long story short, when Flaherty proved unequal to the task, Van Dyke was asked to take over as the primary director, and ended up as the sole credited director. (Without divulging any spoilers, I will only note that anyone who might revere Flaherty as one of the gods of early cinema will have their eyes opened by Van Dyke's account of his behavior on this distant and difficult location, and by learning of the reasons for the studio's dismissal of Flaherty halfway through the shoot.) Editor Behlmer has framed and supplemented this unique document with a variety of documentation and commentary regarding Van Dyke, including: excerpts from the transcript of a story conference for TARZAN, THE APE MAN, which Van Dyke directed a few years later; a couple of 1930s fan magazine articles (one by Van Dyke himself); comments by several of his professional associates, including Myrna Loy and Ingrid Bergman; and a bibliography and filmography. (xx).
Published by The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, 2001
ISBN 10: 0810839725ISBN 13: 9780810839724
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
8vo. Pp: xii, 281. First Edition. Blue dust jacket with black and white lettering and photograph at front. Publisher's original black boards with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 9780810839724 Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Published by The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham MD/London, 2001
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dj. First Edition. [a nice clean as-new book, slightly blemished by modest bumping to the lower corners and a couple of minor scuff marks on the top edge of the text block; the jacket is flawless]. (Filmmakers, No. 84) Series A comprehensive interview with the noted director of LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER, THE DARK CORNER, KISS OF DEATH, CALL NORTHSIDE 777, and numerous other classic and near-classic films. The interview sessions were conducted in the early 1970s by Polly Platt, under the auspices of The American Film Institute's oral history program, but the project was put on hiatus in 1973 due to a lengthy illness suffered by Hathaway, and was never resumed, at least in part because of Platt's burgeoning career as a production designer, screenwriter and producer. (Because of this, the interviews cover Hathaway's career only through the late 1940s.) Hathaway died in 1985, by which time responsibility for his oral history had been transferred to the Directors Guild of America; the Guild engaged Rudy Behlmer to edit and annotate the transcripts of the completed interviews, and to provide supplementary material. The latter includes a "Postscript" on Hathaway's later career, cobbled together from various other interviews he had given, and a comprehensive filmography. (xx).