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33454. Arnheim, Rudolf, 1904-2007. Film as art. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967, 6th printing, 230pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
An adaptation of the author's book on film published in German in 1933, along with three additional essays from the 1930s. With a 7-page "Personal Note" dated 1957.


30683. Berger, Ludwig, 1892-1969. Käthe Dorsch. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1957, 30 pages photos + 27pp., very good small hardcover with cover photograph of the actress, lacks front endpaper, bottom of spine bumped, $7.5
Rembrandt-Reihe, Bühne und Film, 2. Ludwig Berger was an experienced film and theater man, educated in art history, who returned from exile in England after 1945.


22088. Cayrol, Jean / Durand, Claude. Le Droit de Regard. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1963, 184pp., good sewn paper wraps, slight wear, some foxing, ink underlining on about 15 pages, $13
.


14547. Eder, Klaus. Die zweite Heimat von Edgar Reitz. Auf der Suche nach einer Heimat. Köln: WDR, 1993, 37pp., 30cm., large stapled PAPERBACK, very good, $45
Substantial ARD advertising brochure with photos and biographies of actors, summaries of episodes, text for the tv series: Die zweite Heimat: Chronik einer Jugend in 13 Büchern von Edgar Reitz.


28360. Eloesser, Arthur. Elisabeth Bergner. Charlottenburg, Williams & co., 1927, 89pp., good green cloth, spine a bit darkened, one corner lightly bumped, previous owner's name: Leni Steinberg / Lillian Blau, $15
Einbandentwurf Wilhelm Wagner. With 25 black and white photos of Bergner (1897-1986).


20656. Estève, Michel, ed.. Le Nouveau cinéma hongrois, présenté par Michel Estève, avec des textes de Barthélemy Amengual [and 13 others]. Paris, Minard, 1969, 209pp. plates. 19 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, $19
Études cinématographiques, no. 73-77. (New cinema in Hungary, text in French).


21421. Gara, Daniela. Professione Attrice, frammenti di un' autobiografia postuma. a cura di Roberta Mazzoni. Roma: Edizioni dellautore, 1996, 90pp., PAPERBACK, very good sewn paper wraps, illustrated with many photos, $25
. ISBN 8886157150


33512. Hare, David, 1947-. Writing left-handed. London : Faber and Faber, 1991, xv, 189pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, light wear to cover edges, $10
CONTENTS: Introduction - Cycles of Hope: A Memoir of Raymond Williams - The Play is in the Air: On Political Theatre - Looking Foolish: On taking Risks - Time of Unease: At the Royal court Theatre - Awkward Squad: About Joint Stock - Now Think This Time: An Introduction to the History Plays - Why Pick On Us? An Introduction to the Asian Plays - Ah! Mischief: On Public Broadcasting - The Dead Heart: A Production Log of A Map of the World - A Stint at Notre Dame: On Literary Fame - Writers and the Cinema: On Wetherby - Sailing Downwind: On Pravda - An Unacceptable Form: On The Knife - A Bit of Luck: On Paris By Night - Oh! Goodness: On The Secret Rapture - Four Actors - Appendix: Works by David Hare. ISBN 0571143342


25577. Harrington, John, 1942-. The rhetoric of film. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, x, 175pp., PAPERBACK, good used copy, $6
Author taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Introductory but intelligent work: rhetoric and film - idea and example: recording visual reality - documenting the world: sound - point of view - theme and unity - structure and organization - rhythm and continuity - extended rhetoric. ISBN 0030881242


24392. Heider, Karl G., 1935-. Ethnographic film. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994, 7th printing, 166pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
. ISBN 0292720254


14053. Heinzlmeier, Adolf. / Schulz, Berndt. / Witte, Karsten. Die Unsterblichen des Kinos. Bd. 1. Stummfilmzeit und die goldenen 30er Jahre. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1980-1982, Originalausgabe, 3 Bd.: ill.. 19 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $14
Fischer Cinema. Fischer-Taschenbucher. 3666. ISBN 3596236665


34073. Hildred, Stafford / Ewbank, Tim. Martin Clunes. The Biography. London: John Blake Publishing, 2010, x, 261pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $20
THIS PHYSICAL COPY OF THE BOOK IS ACTUALLY IN THE US AND READY FOR SHIPPING, don't wait two weeks for a UK copy. Entertaining light biography of the British television star of Men Behaving Badly, William and Mary, and Doc Martin. ISBN 9781844549016


12931. Kaiser, Gerhard. Fitzcarraldo Faust: Werner Herzogs Film als postmoderne Variation eines Leitthemas der Moderne. München: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 1992, , PAPERBACK, $20
Themen. 53.


31248. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. From Caligari to Hitler: a Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966, xii, 361pp., sewn PAPERBACK, original cover price $2.95, very good, $25
Princeton Paperbacks, 45. Although it is the 1966 paperback reprint, a note on the copyright page reads: "Hardback Reprint Edition, 1966." CONTENTS: The Archaic Period (1895-1918) - The Postwar Period (1918-1924) - The Stabilized Period (1924-1929) - The Pre-Hitler Period (1930-1933) - Supplement: Propaganda and the Nazi War Film.


30635. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. Theory of Film: the Redemption of Physical Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960, xix, 364pp., fair, worn black cloth, ex-library copy with messy residue from spine label, call number in white ink, cover scuffed, internal stamps, partial jacket flap glued to rear endpaper, good reading copy, $27
First edition, 1960 on title and copyright page, no additional printings listed.


23440. Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966. From Caligari to Hitler. A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947, 361pp., dust-jacket quite worn and chipped around edges, price-clipped but with all text and images, good black cloth, but a bit worn around edges, previous owner's name R. H. Chapman, Princeton, April 1947, $225
Later cloth editions were smaller in format. Previous owner was quite possibly: Robert Harris Chapman (1919-2000) who graduated from Princeton in 1941, was active in theater there. After military service: "In 1946 he returned to Princeton University as an Instructor in the Department of English, directing Princeton Triangle Club productions" (Harvard Gazette Archives, 17 May 2001, obituary), and later became director of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard and professor of English Literature.


25278. MacCann, Richard Dyer, ed.. Film: a montage of theories. New York, Dutton, 1966, 384pp., small PAPERBACK, good used copy, $9
Cover design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Dutton Paperback, D181.


25569. Madsen, Axel. The sewing circle : Hollywood’s greatest secret : female stars who loved other women. Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1995, xv, 240pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $7
A Birch Lane Press book. ISBN 1559722754


28916. Martin, Alice. Thief of Fire. 1stBooksLibrary, 2000, 253pp., PAPERBACK, very good, with nice INSCRIPTION signed by Alice Martin to an old friend. $15
Novel about a Hollywood star, a gossip columnist, and the sex secrets of celebrities. ISBN 0759601550


25486. McAnany, Emile G.. The filmviewer’s handbook. by Emile G. McAnany and Robert Williams. Glen Rock, N.J., Deus Books, Paulist Press , 1965, 208pp., small PAPERBACK, very good used copy, $7
cover by Claude Ponsot. An Original Deus book. Guidebook on the history of film, language of film, how to organize a film society.


34156. Ohayon, Josephine, (adapted). Half a Sixpence. Adapted by Josephine Ohayon from the Paramount musical by Beverley Cross and Dorothy Kingslley. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1968, 2d printing, April, 94pp., small PAPERBACK, fair copy, paper browning with some foxing, cover worn around edges, stain on rear cover, $12
TX1114. Original price 60 cents. Based on the book Kipps by H. G. Wells. With photos from the motion picture starring Tommy Steele.


34971. Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975. Una vita violenta : romanzo. Milano : Garzanti, 1972, 390pp., PAPERBACK, good used copy but with pencil marks and english vocabulary notes in pencil in first three pages, previous owner's blindstamp on title page, $11
.


28023. Petley, Julian. Capital and culture : German cinema, 1933-45. London : Educational Advisory Service, British Film Institute, 1979, 162pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $20
. ISBN 0851700888


27395. Riva, Maria. Marlene Dietrich / by her daughter, Maria Riva. New York : Knopf, 1993, stated First Edition, 789 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., dust-jacket chipped and torn at top of spine, good black cloth, but worn around edges, SIGNED hastily by the author. $25
. ISBN 0394586921


32292. Ruhs, August, Hrsg.. Das Unbewusste Sehen : Texte zu Psychoanalyse, Film, Kino. Herausgegeben von August Ruhs, Bernhard Riff, Gottfried Schlemmer. Wien : Löcker, 1989, 261pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $40
Herausgegeben von August Ruhs, Bernhard Riff, Gottfried Schlemmer, Gesellschaft für Filmtheorie, Institut für Tiefenpsychologie und Psychotherapie der Universität Wien. Papers presented at the Symposion "Psychoanalyse, Film, Kino" held in Vienna, March 16-22, 1987. Includes: Christine Noll Brinckmann on Die Urszene - Helene Schulz-Keil on Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud - Alfred Springer, on Jean Cocteau's Le Sang d'un Poète - Martine Lerude-Flècher on Hitchcock's Rear Window - Gertrud Koch on Hitchchcock's Spellbound - David N. Rodowick on Jacques Rivette's Celine et Julie vont en bateau - Wolfgang Berner on Louis Bunuel's Belle de Jour - Elisabeth Schlebrügge on Michelangelo Antonionis L'Avventura - Bernhard Riff on Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor - August Ruhs on Simon Wincer's D.A.R.Y.L. - Andreas Pribersky on Truffaut's Vivement Dimanche - Catherine Millot on Jacques Baratier's L'Araignee de Satin - Walter Seitter on G. G. de Clérambault - Coop Cavani on Liliana Cavanis Beyond Good and Evil. ISBN 3854091583


26022. Saco, Maine. Ephemera: Mutual Theater Program, Saco, Maine, Spring-Summer Season, 1940. Saco, Maine: Community Press, 10 Storer St., 1940, 6pp., stapled brochure, $15
"Another Outstanding Program", brochure to be mailed informing viewers of films to be shown each day, including Latest News, Cartoon, and other Shorts with Every Show. Films included: Housekeeper's Daughter, Fast and Loose, The Spellbinder, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intermezzo, Destry Rides Again, The Wizard of Oz, The Thundering West, and many more.


18886. Schatzberg, Walter / Jung, Uli. Robert Wiene: der Caligari Regisseur. Berlin: Henschel, 1995, 1. Auflage, 214pp., very good sewn paper wraps, nicely illustrated throughout, $30
Includes filmography: pp. 190-204. ISBN 3894872330


25564. Schoenherr, HHK. Cinéma expérimental. Avec un avant-propos de Ulrich Gregor. Zurich: Pro Helvetia / Lausanne: l'Age de l'Homme, 1985, 86pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $24
Collection Dossiers Pro Helvetia, Cinéma 4. Cover title reads: "movies kaputt.".


25511. Tell, Pincus W.. Opportunities in Motion Pictures. New York: Vocational Guidance Manuals, Inc., 1949, 68pp., very good stapled paper wraps, $20
The author was Director of Publicity and Advertising for the Rivoli Theater in NY. A guide to finding work in all branches of film, dealing with agents, departments of sound, writing, producing, photography; managing a theater, publicity and advertising, projection, etc.


15995. Trenker, Luis, 1892-1990. Berge im Schnee. Das Winterbuch. Mit 195 Bildern in Kupfertiefdruck. Berlin: Th. Knaur Nachf., 1935, 136., very good off-white woven cloth with blue printed titles, cloth worn at bottom of spine, $24
.


17941. Wilder, Billy. Der Prinz von Wales geht auf Urlaub. Berliner Reportagen, Feuilletons und Kritiken der zwanziger Jahre. Hrsg. von Klaus Siebenhaar. München: Diana Verlag, 2000, 222pp., PAPERBACK, very good copy, $20
Klappentext: Es gab ein Leben vor dem Film - und es war so bewegt wie die spätere Hollywood-Karriere: Der junge Billy Wilder verdiente sein Geld als rasender Reporter im Berlin der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre. Er schreibt Reportagen, führt Interviews, verfaßte Feuilletons und Kritiken. Und was für Feuilletons: ein erschütterndes Porträt des weltberühmten Clowns Grock, ironische Betrachtungen über das Kaffeehaus, einen bösen Bericht über den Prinzen von Wales...