Ecco, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon At age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. It considers how prose fiction and cinema differ; how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character; and how continually remade films evoke memories of..... More
Simon & Schuster, 1968. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo paperback with moderate user wear including stains, darkening to cover. Creased mildly bowed spine. Large red previous dealer's stamp verso of front cover panel. Previous owner's name inked on this same page, as well as top right corner of title page..... More
University Press of Mississippi, December 2003. First Thus. Paper Back. This collection of interviews with Stanley Kauffmann (b. 1916) provides a virtual history of the journalistic practice of criticism in twentieth-century America. His creative life spans seven decades, and since 1958, he has been a film and drama critic for..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 2008. Paper Back. The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriate director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, the..... More
Cornell University Press, May 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story--whatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, divides his subject..... More
Hal Leonard Corp, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Foreword by Jeremy Irons, preface by Adrian Lyne. Based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, Schiff tells the astounding story behind the most controversial movie of our time. 75 movie stills. "Like Nabokov's novel, it is an eloquent tragedy laced with wit and..... More
Andrews McMeel Pub, October 1985. Trade Paperback. As is. Foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Crown Archetype, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. John Cleese's huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy's DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway..., Cleese..... More
British Film Institute, May 1992. Trade Paperback. The author briefly recounts the making of The Wizard of Oz and discusses its plot, music, and themes. More
Temple Univ Pr, May 2004. Hardcover. During the 1940s and 1950s, the name DuMont was synonymous with the new medium of television. Many people first watched TV on DuMont-brand sets, the best receivers money could buy. More viewers enjoyed their first programs on the DuMont network, which was established in..... More
Hawthorn Books, June, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, marginally darkened dustjacket, with especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Curl to top edge. Front flap is not cllipped. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with white lettering on spine. White paper covered boards with marginal darkening. Michaele..... More
Henry Holt and Company, January 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In tattered, torn, heavily darkened & dust stained with tape 'repairs' likewise darkened with age. DJ verso is especially dust stained. Front flap not clipped. Jacket is quite scarce in any condition. Silver cloth covered boards with red & black..... More
Wynwood, November 1989. Hardcover. In dustjacket with heavy foxing on verso. Red cloth covered spine with gold lettering and grey paper covered boards. Faded at margins top and bottom. Grey end pages. Heavy dust stains/foxing top textblock edge. Heavy foxing to fore-edge. [296 pp.]. More
St Martins Press, March 1988. First American. Cloth. {7' x 10'} Small quarto. In dustjacket with edgewear and half-inch rough hewn tear at top of rear panel at spine. Occasional soiling to DJ recto. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering. First edition. [192 pp.]. More
Arlington House Publishers, January 1981. Hardcover. Quarto in dustjacket with sunned spine with curled/worn edge and soiling. Flap not clipped. Yellow cloth covered boards with bumped corners & black lettering on spine. Top edge of boards darkened. Dust stained textblock top edge. [259 pp.]. More
St Martins, January 1983. Hardcover. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket with foxing & tanning to verso. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with silver lettering & pale blue paper covered boards with faded edges and dust stains. Tanning of end pages. [296 pp.]. More
Grove/Atlantic, November 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. From its humble origins as a dusty California village to the height of movie studio glamor, this entertaining compendium brings Hollywood to life in the words of the people who worked there. A superb anthology . . . A feast for those who love..... More
Macmillan Publishing, April 1978. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. In DJ with darkened spine & edgewear. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Sound binding, but pulled at top. Dust stains & foxing. [304 pp.]. More
Citadel Press Inc.,U.S., September 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Quarto. 7th printing. Mild wear to edges and spine. Sunned margins of front cover. Foxing to verso of front and back cover. Dust stains to textblock edge. More dust staining to fore-edge. [160pp.]. More
Doubleday, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. {9 & 1/2' x 6'} In well worn DJ with edgewear. Moderate dust staining, creases and darkening over much of jacket front. Verso likewise tanned/foxed. Much faded tape residue to jacket top & bottom edge, front and back. Corresponding (much more visible)..... More
McGraw-Hill, February 1984. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with darkening at margins. Marginal tanning of DJ verso. Teal cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tanning of end pages. Foxing/dust stains textblock edges. [228 pp.]. More
Lorrimer Publishing / Frederick Ungar, January 1986. Paper Back. Foxing & dust stains. 64 pages. More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 2019. Hardcover. She said, I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress, but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine..... More
Hyperion Books, December 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. This year, Casablanca--the quintessential movie-lover's movie--will celebrate its 50th anniversary with theatre and video re-release. The author of The Making of the Wizard of Oz examines the creative forces behind this celluloid legend. Octavo in dustjacket with tanned spine and margins and verso..... More
