Starr William A (67 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover has edge wear, creases, scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. Minor dirt on edge. No writing. Very good. Book.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Periodical. Condition: Very Good. (Vol. 1, No. 1). [light soiling, top rear corner slightly bent/dog-eared]. (B&W photographs) First issue of this little magazine, dedicated (per the editorial) to treating the cinema as "a fine art [and] with the respect due an impressive means of communication." Articles: "Ripples from a Wave" (Andrew Sarris); "Our Elizabethan Movies - A Revival" (Dwight Macdonald); "The Silent World of Slapstick (1912-1916)" (Mark Sufrin); "David Wark Griffith" (first of two articles, by William K. Everson); "Dreams in the Dream Factory" (Daniel Rosenblatt); two brief reviews of BANDITI A ORGOSOLO (THE BANDITS OF ORGOSOLO); brief review of VIRIDIANA. NOISBN. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1970 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 5 #6) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: full-page ad for the film "FIDEL" ("A STARTLING NEW FILM ON FIDEL [Castro] AND CUBA TODAY" from Review Presentations); full-pad ad for the film "'NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME A NIGGER" (a Paradigm production, directed by David Loeb Weiss); column "critics" by Michael Sragow (a collection of brief critical reviews of the movies "The Milky Way" directed by Luis Buñuel and "The Damned" directed by Luchino Visconti); article "2001: a second look" by Frederik Pohl (with three photos: "The following article is printed as a rejoinder to the two articles on the subject, last issue." Mr. Pohl begins his article with "Nearly every science-fiction movie ever made is pure crap, made by schlock merchants for an audience of cretins"); article "The Milky Way" by Lita Paniagua (with four photos from the film); article "Gotterdammerung / The Damned" by Gary Crowdus (with photo of Luchino Visconti and three photos from the film); article "End of the Road" by Michael Sragow (directed by Aram Avakian, with two photos from the film); full-page ad "REPORT FROM CHINA" (from Iwanami Productions, Tokyo, Japan and distributed by Radim Films; "China during the height of Mao's Great Cultural Revolution as seen over a six-month period through the eyes and lenses of a professional Japanese camera team"). Covers lightly age-yellowed, else Fine.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1971 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 7 #3) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: one-page ad for the film "The Bridge" ("Die Brücke," directed by Bernhard Wicki and distributed by Hurlock Cine World); column Commentary by Michael Sragow (Part Two of Two, on Dwight MacDonald); lengthy article The 9th New York Film Festival by Gary Crowdus (with eight photos); article Notes on [Fernando] Solanas and [Jean-Luc] Godard by Joel Haycock (Part One of Two; article originally appeared in "Camera People"); article The Mafia on Film: "MAFIOSO" by Maria-Teresa Ravage (second article in series, on the film directed by Alberto Lattuada, with three photos); "Revolution in China" by Leonard Rubenstein (with five photos: "'Revolution in China,' a three-part film produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, makes an honest attempt to recognize the situation out of which a Communist China emerged, and the problems it faces both within and outside its borders"); two-page article on the film "Fidel" directed by Saul Landau (including quotes from film critics); one-page ad for the film "Three Lives" directed by Kate Millett and distributed through Impact Films. Covers very lightly soiled, else Fine.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1971 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 7 #2) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: one-page ad for the film "La Femme Infidele" (directed by Claude Chabrol, distributed by Hurlock Cine World); column Commentary by Michael Sragow (Part One of Two, on Dwight MacDonald); article [Fourth] Atlanta [International Film Festival] '71 by Todd McCarthy (with two photos); Dalton Trumbo: An Interview (lengthy interview by the Film Society Review; with his portrait photo); article The Mafia on Film: Salvatore Giuliano by Maria-Teresa Ravage (first article in series, on the film directed by Francesco Rosi, with five photos); article "Red China" by Leonard Rubenstein (with three photos; "In 1960, NBC-TV aired its 53-minute White Paper, RED CHINA. Narrated by Chet Huntley and compiled mostly from old footage supplemented by the then-most-recent film shot in China by Swiss photographer Fernand Gigon, this special documentary tries to analyze the Great Leap Forward, that willful attempt to raise industrial production to the levels of Western Europe within only a few years without benefit of Soviet aid"). Covers lightly soiled, else Fine.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1970 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 5 #8) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: full-page ad for the film "The Hidden Fortress" (directed by Akira Kurosawa and distributed by Radim Films); full-page ad for the film "Belle de Jour" directed by Luis Buñuel and distributed by Hurlock Cine World; column "critics" by Michael Sragow (a collection of brief reviews on the films "The Strawberry Statement" directed by Stuart Hagmann, "Zabriskie Point" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" directed by Sam Peckinpah); article [Festival] Oberhausen '70 by Ronald Holloway (with no photos); article on the film "The Strawberry Statement" by Gary Crowdus (with four photos); article on the film "Zabriskie Point" by Foster Hirsch (with four photos); article on the film "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" by Michael Sragow (with two photos). Covers lightly age-yellowed, else Fine.…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September 1970 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 6 #1) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: column "critics" by Michael Sragow (lists of short reviews for the films "A Man for All Seasons" directed by Fred Zinnemann and "Anne of the Thousand Days" directed by Charles Jarrott); article Cracow [Film Festival] '70 by Ronald Holloway (with three photos); article Grove Press International Film Festival by Gary Crowdus (with 12 photos); article on the films "A Man for All Seasons" and "Anne of the Thousand Days" by Michael Sragow (with three photos). Covers lightly age-yellowed and lightly soiled; a few very tiny edge stains.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 1971 issue of "Film Society Review" (Vol. 7 #4) edited by William A. Starr and published by the American Federation of Film Societies out of New York City. A magazine measuring 6" by 9" and containing 52 pages including front and rear covers. With spectacular advertisements throughout, and articles accompanied by photographs, highlights include: full-page ad for the film "End of the Road" directed by Aram Avakian and distributed by Hurlock Cine World; full-page ad for the documentary film "Mexico: The Frozen Revolution" directed by Raymundo Gleyzer and distributed by the Third World Cinema Group; full-page ad from Grove Press Evergreen Films (with eight small photos, each a different film); full-page ad for the film "Little Big Man" directed by Arthur Penn, starring Dustin Hoffman, and distributed by Swank Motion Pictures; article The 15th San Francisco Film Festival by Joseph Kostolefsky (with six photos); article Notes on [Fernando] Solanas and [Jean-Luc] Godard by Joel Haycock (final Part Two, with five photos; article originally appeared in "Camera People"); article The Mafia on Film: "A Ciascuno Il Suo" by Maria-Teresa Ravage (third article in series, with three photos from the film directed by Elio Petri); article "China: The Red Sons" by Leonard Rubenstein (on the documentary film directed by Roger Whittaker, with four photos). Covers very lightly soiled, else Fine.…

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Light cover soil in places.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Light cover soil in places.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Light cover soil nearest spine, else Near Fine.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial green & white wraps. The wraps are lightly foxed & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. 82 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. 1 bottom page corner is creased, else the contents are very good. Among the contents of the first issue of this magazine, referred to throughout as "Film Critic", are an article on Russian film "The Tyranny of the Marketplace and the Tyranny of the Commissar" by Art Carduner, an article on the 1972 Berlin Film Festival by O. W. Riegel, and "Bogged Down: a Twitch in the Auteur Niche", an attack on the auteur theory by Pete Rainer.…

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages are off-white with underlined passages and marginal notes. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: Hough, Editor's introduction. Armstrong, The ethnic scene in the Soviet Union: the view of the dictatorship. Armstrong, The Soviet ethnic scene: a quarter century later. Starr, Soviet nationalities in crisis. Beissinger, John Armstrong's functionalism and beyond: approaches to the study of Soviet nationalities politics. Tishkov, An assembly of nations or an all-union parliament? Olcott, Youth and nationality in the USSR. Mickiewicz, Ethnicity and support: findings from a Soviet-American public opinion poll. Crowther, Ethnicity and participation in the Communist Party of Moldavia. Data on population and party members by nationality. Slider, Soviet public opinion on the eve of the elections. 9.0" tall; 162 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. B & W Film Stills & Graphics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pages; 1970 American Federation of Film Societies. Vol. 6, #4; December 1970. Single issue monthly magazine in original pictorial covers and saddle stapled binding. Solid clean copy; Film Society Bulletin, a 4 page Supplement to this issue is laid in at front. Includes a long piece on the San Francisco by Joseph Kostolefsky. Film stills, graphics and ads. NF.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. B & W Film Stills & Graphics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages; 1969 American Federation of Film Societies. Vol. 4, #9; May 1969. Single issue monthly magazine in original pictorial covers and saddle stapled binding. Solid clean copy with mild toning to covers. Includes a piece on Easy Riders by Frederic Tuten and two pieces on Cannes Festival 1969. Illustrated with film stills, graphics and ads. VG++.…

No Binding. Condition: VGF. SW-57. A VG or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library with the usual features. The interior is clean and tight. Binding and cover are good. Library label on the front. 132 pages. Ex-Library.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . Odyssey Publications #11. Anthology of stories originally published between 1927 and 1940 taken from Action Stories magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.25"], illustrated. Very good with scattered staining to the upper right corner portion of the front cover plus two small related spot stains to the fore-edge. See photos clph(action).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . Odyssey Publications #11. Anthology of stories originally published between 1927 and 1940 taken from Action Stories magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.25"], illustrated. Very good with foxing and light rubbing to the covers. clphE(action).

Magazine. 44p. includes covers, 6x9 inches, articles, film stills, ads, lightly worn and soiled digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Debut of the film criticism journal. Andrew Sarris' "Ripples From a Wave" on the Nouvelle Vague writers and directors. Macdonald on "Our Elizabethan Movies". Sufrin on "The Silent World of Slapstick".…

Magazine. 52p. includes covers, 6x9 inches, articles, film stills, ads, lightly worn digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story on "The Strawberry Statement," the mess of an adaptation of James Simon Kunen's account of the 1968 Columbia University demonstrations. Also considered by Hirsch is the one film worse than Strawberry that year, Antonioni's "Zabriskie Point[less]".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original ed. GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT.but spine strip has come off, bok is still solidly bound, just lacks title, etc from spine.HAS GLOSSY PAPER TEXT. ; RED THIN LEATHER OVER CARBOARD HARD COVERS WOMAN in Gold to front cover.richly blind stamped covers show line & floral embelishments.ILLUSTRATED .GILT TOP EDGE TO TEXT BLOCK. ; 667pg pages; Important HISTORIC Woman. .Many men are authors, but several important women are contributors.FAMOUS & INFAMOUS WOMEN DESCRIBED, but this is not a Woman's liberation book.Was published before women had right to vote in most states. Illustrated by Full Page Illustrations (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFirst issue of this film magazine. Very good, small stain front cover. Dirty Harry, French Connection, Berlin etc etc. 82pp. Illust.