New York: Urizen Books, 1977. First American Edition, 1st Printing. French director Robert Bresson's short takes on the cinema, acting, gestures, and the vagaries of film making. For example, "Shooting. You will not know till much later if your film is worth the mountain range of efforts it is costing..... More
Zurich, Leipzig: Orell Füssli Verlag, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Stills from a number of Soviet revolutionary films. Small Octavo. 16 pages (text) + 71 pages (photos). Original red cloth-backed photographic boards, titles to spine in black. Some age-toning and foxing to the end papers and text leaves. Board tips..... More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by David Mamet on the title page. Octavo, xv, 126 pages. A paperback original in Fine condition. David Mamet's screenplay for a crime drama he directed starring Joe Mantegna and William H. Macy. Signed copies are not often seen in the..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First American Edition. Octavo, 287 pages. Near Fine (slight fading of lettering on spine). Dust jacket has a small tear at top of the spine and front panel and at the bottom of the spine. Overall, an attractive copy. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by John Simon on the front free end paper: "For the Brittonica / of book lore -- / from / John Simon March 7, 1972." A collection of Simon's bracing, literate, and often controversial film criticism, comprising reviews he..... More