Daniel Blums Screen World Volume (26 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. [heavily worn with extensive creasing to covers; the spine covering is almost completely gone, but it's holding together -- just barely -- because it was stitched, not perfect-bound; rubber stamp of Kier's Book House on front endpaper and title page]. (B&W photographs) The first issue of this long-running annual round-up of the year's films and personalities. In the beginning (and for another year or two, I believe) this publication was issued in both a dust-jacketed hardcover edition and as a softcover, this example being the latter -- as as noted, with the binding almost shot. The front cover features small portrait hotos of Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn, and John Lund. The volume contains the first of the "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (by artist Mary Green) full-page photo feature (including dolls of Greta Garbo, Greer Garson, W.C. Fields, Bing Crosby); the "Promising Personalities" sections includes Mario Lanza, Ruth Roman, Scott Brady; the volume is dedicated to silent film actress Clara Kimball Young. Ordinarily I would just discard a book in this condition -- but, well, it was the beginning of a long-running and much-loved series, and I just haven't got the heart to chuck the poor abused thing out. So I've made it super-cheap, just to help it find a new home.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Hardcover edition. Volume 13. (film, movie, history, 1962) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. (Volume 4) First Printing. (no dust jacket) [considerable wear to edges and extremities, light soiling and a vertical scrape on the front cover, binding a little loosey-goosey but all pages still attached; a good reference copy, but no more]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1950. The "Promising Personalities" of the year were about evenly split between those who went on to really become something, and those who never quite did, with full-page photos of: Charlton Heston, Mala Powers, Marlon Brando, Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Rock Hudson, Debra Paget, Anthony (Tony) Curtis, Patrice Wymore, Nancy Olson, John Barrymore Jr. (very deliberately posed to evoke his famous father's profile), Jean Hagen, and Howard Keel. The second installment of the hideous "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" feature presents a group photo of doll versions of Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Rudolph Valentino, Carmen Miranda, and Harold Lloyd. The volume is dedicated to "Silent Screen Star and A Good Friend," Eugene O'Brien. (Oh, come on -- you remember Eugene, right? Hm?).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. (Volume 5) First Printing. (no dust jacket) [solid copy, bumping to several corners, a bit of staining to covers; internally unblemished]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1953. The "Promising Personalities" of the year, with the single exception of Audrey Hepburn, proved to be, on the whole, a pretty undistinguished bunch: Byron Palmer, Lori Nelson, Biff Elliot, Steve Forrest, Kathleen Hughes, Charles Drake, Pat Crowley, Elaine Stewart, Carlos Thompson, Edmund Purdom, and Barbara Ruick. This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (thankfully confined to a single page) gives us a group shot of dreadful doll versions of William S. Hart (looking a lot like Conrad Veidt in CALIGARI), Clara Kimball Young, Pearl White and Paul Panzer, Mae Murray and Bob Hope. The volume is dedicated to Lillian Gish.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. (Volume 4) First Printing. (no dust jacket) [shelfwear and light bumping/fraying to all corners, small light stain at right edge of front cover, internally clean and unmarked]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1952. The "Promising Personalities" of the year contained quite a few actors who actually did fulfill their promise; those singled out (with full-page photos of each) included Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Wagner, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tab Hunter, and Grace Kelly. (The lesser lights were Aldo Ray, Anne Francis, Dewey Martin, Jeffrey Hunter, Julia Adams, Keith Andes, and Allyn McLerie.) This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (thankfully confined to a single page) gives us a group shot of dreadful doll versions (created by Mary Green, "New York Artist") of John Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Ben Turpin, Clara Bow (particularly unlike the real thing) and Robert Stack. The volume is dedicated to Harriet Parsons, producer (and daughter of Louella).

Condition: Good. Good condition. Reprint. Vol. 10. (motion pictures) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 5. (film, movie, history, 1954) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Volume 15. (film, movie, history, 1964) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Reprint, 1969. Volume 6. (Film, Periodicals) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. Biblio and Tannen. 1949. Volume 1. Hardcover book in fine and unread condition. Tan cloth hardcover is in fine condition clean and strong, lettering on front cover and spine is bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good with several nicks and some fraying to lower edge of cloth. No markings or bookplates. Some natural age-darkening to paper. Tight and clean. No dj. The original edition, not to be confused with later reprints.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor dj. (Volume 13). [light bumping to lower corners, otherwise just minor shelfwear; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tears and tiny chips, paper loss at both ends of spine, creasing, light soiling, etc. (serviceable in new mylar, but that's about the best I can say)]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1961. Front jacket panel illustrations: Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Maximilian Schell, Geraldine Page, Jeffrey Hunter. The "Promising Personalities" of the year included Connie Stevens, Warren Beatty, Susan Strasberg, George Chakiris, and Stella Stevens. This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (a feature that would, thankfully, soon be abandoned) is a group shot of doll renderings of Steve Reeves, Carole Lombard (looking exceptionally creepy), Bill Travers, and Ethel Barrymore; on the facing page is a full-length shot of Jayne Mansfield, and I had to look twice to make sure she wasn't also a doll version of herself. The volume is dedicated to Gilbert Roland. This year's obituaries are a pretty distinguished bunch, including Gary Cooper, Marion Davies, Barry Fitzgerald, Chico Marx, and Anna May Wong.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). Reprint of the 1955 original. New York: Biblio and Tannen, 1969. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Previous owner's name in two places. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait: Bob Hope. Profusely photo illustrated. Has chapters on domestic films released in 1954; portrait dolls of famous film folk, promising personalities (e.g. James Dean, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Lionel Barrymore; etc.); Foreign films; Film casts, Obituaries, etc. Index. Bound in the original cloth, stamped in shiny metallic pink and black. Reprint of the 1955 original. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 240pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Reprint Edition. A fine copy, tight, clean, no markings or bookplates. No dj as issued for this reprint series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Ralph Affleck (illustrator). (Volume 14). [good sound copy, very light staining at bottom edge of front cover, mild shelfwear to lower extremities; jacket is modestly edgeworn, with a couple of short closed tears at the top of the front panel and and an inch of paper loss at the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1962. Front jacket panel illustrations: Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Quinn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlon Brando, Peter O'Toole, Shelley Winters. "Promising Personalities" of the year provide the usual mix of those who became major stars and those who, well, didn't: Peter O'Toole, Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Janet Margolin, Trax Colton, Sue Lyon, Terence Stamp, Shirley Knight, Edson Stroll, Karl Schell, Christine Kaufmann, Marcello Mastroianni. (Sorry.Edson Stroll? Hard to imagine what the qualifications for "promising" were: he was a regular on 'McHale's Navy," and his feature film career seems to have consisted primarily of co-starring roles in not one but TWO of the gawdawful Three Stooges features of the early 1960s. Oh, well, it could have been worse: at least he wasn't Trax Colton.) This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (thankfully confined to a single page) gives us a group shot of doll versions of Mae West, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Charles Laughton, and Wayne Morris. The volume is dedicated to actress Mary Boland.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). Reprint of the 1954 original. New York: Biblio and Tannen, 1969. Near Fine condition. Sharp corners. Square and tight. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Two frontispiece portraits: Lillian Gish and Marlon Brando. Profusely photo illustrated. Has chapters on domestic films released in 1953; portrait dolls of famous film folk, promising personalities (e.g. Audrey Hepburn, Biff Elliot, Steve Forfest, etc.); Foreign films; Film casts, Obituaries, etc. Index. Bound in the original cloth, stamped in shiny metallic pink and black. Reprint of the 1954 original. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 224pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Greenberg, 1955 The sixth volume of Daniel Blum's Screen World series contains a precis of every movie released in 1955, with cast credits and still photos. Includes chapters on Promising Personalities, foreign films and obituaries. The year's releases included marlon Brando in'The Wild One,' and 'On the Waterfront,''Mr. Hulot's Holiday,' The Country Girl' with Grace Kelly, and 'A Star is Born' with Judy Holiday and James Mason. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York: Greenberg, 1858 Vol 9.The ninth volume in this series contains a precis of every movie released in 1957, with cast credits and still photos. The contents include chapters on Promising Personalities, Foreign Films and Obituaries. The year's releases included "Bridge on the River Kwai", "Three Faces of Eve," Evis in "Jaihouse Rock" and Brigette Bardot in "And God Created Woman."B&W photos on every page, text is clean, tight unmarked, slightly wracked.Grey cloth boards are clean, DJ is bumped and chipped at extremities, chip missing along spine, spine quite faded. In mylar jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Ralph Affleck (illustrator). (Volume 15). [good sound clean copy, minor wear to lower extremities; the jacket is edgeworn and lightly soiled, with various tiny chips and tears, with a wide shallow chip at the top of the rear panel, and about a half-inch of paper loss at the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1963. Front jacket panel illustrations: Albert Finney, Leslie Caron, Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor. "Promising Personalities" include Sean Connery, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Walker (Jr.), Elke Sommer, Ursula Andress, Omar Sharif, Peter Fonda; "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (getting more and more surreal) include Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Emil Jannings. The volume is dedicated to silent screen actress Blanche Sweet. For some unaccountable reason, this is one of the scarcer volumes in this long-running series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. Remarkably fresh, near fine copy with very light bumps to lower corners. No markings or bookplates. In a very good dust jacket with a 1/2" tear at top of rear flap fold, and some light overall wear. No jacket chips and not price-clipped. Spine may have a trace of fading.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. (Volume VI). [nice clean book with only minor shelfwear, one-time owner's signature on front endpaper (see Notes); the jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, minor paper loss at top of spine, a bit of soiling to the rear panel (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1954. The "Promising Personalities" of the year are, for a change, a pretty rich bunch, including Eva Marie Saint, James Dean, Kim Novak, and Jack Lemmon (offset somewhat, as usual, by those whose promise didn't take them very far, e.g. May Wynn and Doe Avedon). This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (thankfully confined to a single page) gives us a group shot of creepy doll versions of Charles Laughton, Colleen Moore, Charles Boyer, Anita Stewart, and Jackie Coogan. The volume is dedicated to Pola Negri; the obituaries section -- mercifully short this time around -- include Lionel Barrymore, Sydney Greenstreet, and Eugene Pallette. This copy is from the collection of screenwriter Richard Collins, and bears his signature on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1958 edition on light green cloth.

Condition: very good. Cartonné sous jaquette bon état .Jaquette abîmée . 192 pages .1952.PHOTOS SUR DEMANDE.