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195363840New York NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1953. 8vo. 4 197 1 pp. With 4 photo plates. Red tweed publisher’s boards black lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art of Joe Louis fight couple minor closed tears slight edgewear and w/ wraparound photo-illustrated band for the United Artists film starring Coley Wallace Paul Stewart & Hilda Simms w/ photo stills of the movie NF/VG/NF copy w/ former ownership markings on ffep. First photoplay edition of this stirring autobiography of the famed Heavyweight Champion who held the title for 12 years longer than any other boxer as he battled both fighters and racism. Louis acknowledges in the dedication the editorial and writing aid from longtime friend Chester L. Washington longtime editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel L.A.’s largest Black newspaper and famed Jewish-American sportswriter & publicist Haskell Cohen 1914-2000 who began his career with the prominent Black newspaper Pittsburgh Courier and covered the Negro leagues and strongly advocated for Black athletes in professional sports. Wallace 1927-2005 also appeared in both the films Raging Bull 1980 and Marciano in 1979. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
193163162New York & Chicago: A.L. Burt Co. Publishers 1931. 8vo. 256 pp. Photo frontisp. 3 photo illustrations colour illustration cover art of USS Los Angeles Zeppelin. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling front cover black lettering on spine rubbing shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. cover art of USS Los Angeles sailing through the clouds minor chipping head & foot of spine closed tears at corners fore-edges VG/VG- copy. First photoplay edition based on this Art Deco inspired for Dirigible -- Frank Capra’s epic aviation disaster film for Columbia pictures. Based on the crash of the airship Italia flown by Umberto Nobile in May 1928 near the North Pole and the subsequent rescue which cost Roald Amundson his life Capra intended to emulate the success of Wings. This fascinating film was shot in a semi-documentary style providing splendid footage of the USS Los Angeles mid-air docking/recovery of a fighter aircraft and the crash of an airship during a storm just a few years before the Hindenburg disaster. The movie starred Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Fay Wray two years before her huge success in King Kong. This was the first Columbia Pictures film to receive a glamorous premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. A.L. Burt Co., Publishers, hardcover
194775595n.p.: Toddy Pictures 1947. Very Good. Set of 4 purple tinted Lobby Cards. 36 x 28 cm. Minor browning and edge-wear. Toddy Pictures presentation starring Eddie Green. Toddy Pictures unknown
193090767Arlington Fl. now part of Jacksonville: Produced by Norman Studios 1930. Good. Complete set of 8 brown tinted Lobby Cards. 36 x 28 cm. Multiple pinholes at corners where these were probably displayed in a theater lobby. Other foxing and wear mostly in margins. This movie starred Laurence Criner in his first role and Kathryn Boyd in the first of her two known roles. This movie is the only Norman Studios movie that is known to have survived. The normanstudios.org website says that not much is known about Boyd although it is believed that she was Criner's wife. That website goes on to say that her portrayal of Ruth Sawtelle as ".a beautiful and bold young woman determined to learn to fly a plane" in the movie was possibly inspired by the life of Bessie Coleman. Norman had discussed the possibility of Coleman starring in a movie. Coleman died in a plane crash in April 1930. "The Flying Ace" was fimed later that same year. Produced by Norman Studios unknown
71271Printed by J.Lichtert and Sons Brussells. 1973. Film promotion / advertising An original Belgian mid-size / window card style poster for the 1973 horror 'De Diaboloshe Rituelen Van Dracula' from Hammer Films directed by Alan Gibson starring Christopher Lee Peter Cushing and Joanna Lumley. 22 x 14 inches approx. Based on characters created by Bram Stoker. Folded. Some light wear and handling; near fine condition Poster Grade 'A-'. Will be despatched rolled in a substantial card tube. This was the seventh and final Hammer film to feature Christopher Lee as Dracula and the third to unite Peter Cushing as Van Helsing with Lee. Printed by J.Lichtert and Sons, Brussells. 1973 unknown
192063408Los Angeles CA: Palmer Photoplay Corporation 1920. 4to. 165 1 pp. Half-burgundy simulated calf over black cloth post-binder gilt lettering & lozenge stamped on front cover punch sewn at gutter margin w/ black braid as issued minor shelfwear rubbing slight scuffing still a VG copy w/ pencil manuscript at rear endpapers with extended quote from famed Hollywood screenplay writer Charles Gardner Sullivan 1884-1965. Revised and expanded edition of one of the most successful correspondence cars promising to prepare women and men for jobs in the ever-expanding and flourishing new movie industry Hollywood “Film Capital of the World.†This revised edition is significantly expanded by over 40 pages from the others issued before World War I and intended to offer the aspiring screenwriter not only a path to self-expression but a way to experience and appreciate this new art form. Palmer 1881-1961 himself had written silent film scripts for several movies released from 1911-1913 but proved to be far more successful in establishing his screenplay writer’s school whose advisory council included Cecil B. DeMille Lois Weber Thomas Ince and guest lectures by Sullivan himself. See: Anne Morey: ‘Have You the Power’ The Palmer Photoplay Corporation and the Film Viewer/Author in the 1920s Film History Vol. 9 No. 3 1997 pp. 300-319. Palmer Photoplay Corporation, hardcover
196560316Los Angeles CA: Scenic Backgrounds Inc. 848 North La Brea Avenue ca. 1965. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 106 leaves unnumbered. photo illustrations throughout two leaves extra-illustrated with four sample silver gelatin photos sized 4 x 5 in. mounted on blank leaves some offset toning to leaves below from blue marks sections demarcated with thumb-tab separator leaves. Red printed vinyl 3-ring binder title in gilt on front cover & spine on background rounded corners minor dustsoiling to first leaf couple corrections in pencil & ink manuscript minor pulling at gutter margin to a few leaves soiling to back cover still a VG- copy from the library of Joe Emil Joseph Minneci 1912-2002 a Chicago-born carpenter and scene painter who moved to Los Angeles following World War II with his family and worked for years in the studios w/ ownership in gilt cursive on front cover. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce and extra-illustrated sample catalogue for scenic backdrops in order to lower production costs on movie and television production by offering ready-made and large painted scene flats for studios & theaters. These here include depictions of Residential Western & Commercial Architectural backdrops City Skylines Western Parks Hills & Mountains and Tropical Landscapes Skies & Clouds Transportation Miscellaneous and birds-eye cityscape profiles. Available sizes range from 14 x 19 feet up to 20 x 40 feet and include surrealistic backdrops animated and those with signage. Although undated the commercial architectural scenes include images of readily identifiable cars including 1965 Dodge GTO 1964 Camaro 1964-5 Mustang as well as 1962 Ford Falcon and also mentions the increasing use of colour for television broadcasting. In addition many of the scenes include those for the very popular Western genre films and shows during the Mid-20th-Century and some very distinctive Mid-Century Modern homes and exteriors are presented here as well. Two of the extra-illustrated scenes appear to depict a bucolic Northern California countryside of rolling hills and spreading trees above which measured 18 x 20 feet each to tie-in with one another; while the others focus on a tropical backdrop. Scenic Backgrounds Inc. appears to have been founded sometime around 1950-1952 with the introduction indicating that they had employed the best artists for over 12 years. In addition the Company appears in none of the contemporary street directories or trade journals we could search however it did place advertisements in some of the contemporary magazines and appeared to operate until about 1970. Whether Joe Minneci was an owner it is difficult to determine but originally the Minneci’s lived in West Los Angeles in the Fairfax area before moving to Encino. Often these scene and backdrop companies would rent out their scenery to stage productions opera houses and even fraternal order productions. These original sales catalogues for this essential part of the film and television industry are quite scarce. No copies in Worldcat. Scenic Backgrounds, Inc., 848 North La Brea Avenue, unknown
191563112New York: Grosset & Dunlap ca. 1915. 8vo. 8 374 pp. Photo frontisp. 7 photo illust. Red cloth white lettering minor shelfwear faint tidemark wicked into fore-edges of plates at the very fore-edge w/ d.j. cover art with KKK rider on horseback next to heroine minor chipping head & foot of spine minor closed tears edgewear still G/VG- copy. First Photoplay edition of the notorious movie starring Lilian Gish Henry B. Walthall Mae Marsh Miriam Cooper Ralph Lewis George Siemann and others which steeped in the Confederacy’s Lost Cause mythos which had heavily influenced the misguided Dunning School’s interpretation of Reconstruction and significantly influenced Dixon and Woodrow Wilson. Directed by D.W. Griffith the movie was very successful but the racist overtones and blatant support of the Ku Klux Klan triggered widespread protests and it was banned in several cities. Very much like 21st-Century media Birth of a Nation’s portrayal of African-Americans created a justification for prejudice and discrimination which undermined Civil Rights for decades and reactivated the largely quiescent Ku Klux Klan movement and was the first film ever screened at the White House for President Wilson. See: Petaja Photoplay Edition p. 53; The Influence of “The Birth of a Nation†Facing History & Ourselves March 14 2016. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
196760613Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1967. 8vo. 190 pp. Green publisher’s cloth silver lettering faint glue offset ghosting at gutter margins w/ d.j. cover art by Ellen Raskin rear caricature by Cristiano slight age toning NF/NF copy w/ fomer ownership markings on ffep. First edition stated of this Harrison science fiction adventure of a Hollywood film studio crew traveling back and forth through time between the 11th- and 20th-Centuries in order to save the Climactic Studios from bankruptcy. Doubleday & Co., Inc., hardcover
192159010Rochester NY: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. 1921. 12mo. 4.5 x 7 in. 20 pp. With birds-eye photo of Bausch & Lomb factory New York frontisp. with photo illustrations charts throughout. Maroon-coloured textured softcovers embossed illust. of Cinephor lense on front cover gilt lettering NF copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce catalogue for the famed Bausch & Lomb Cinephor coated projection lenses which were used by almost all U.S. movie theatres revolutionizing the industry. In fact the company would later be awarded an honorary Academy Award for their further development in 1954. These lenses have become quite desirable as photographers are adapting the lenses for mirrorless digital SLR cameras such as the Micro 4/3 Sony NEX and Fuji X series. No copies in Worldcat 1 w/ similar title of a 5 pp. 1 sheet at Harvard. Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., paperback
193058970Rochester NY & Los Angeles: Eastman Kodak Co. Eastman Kodak Stores 643 So. Hill St. August 1930. 8vo. 48 pp. printed throughout in metallic silver & black colour. With colour and black & white photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound silver & black metallic Art Deco design & lettering slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this scarce catalogue for Cine-Kodak movie cameras and Kodascope home movie projectors and cabinets at the end of the Jazz Age. Amateur movie makers and enthusiasts could purchase not only the cameras and projectors but also film editing equipment Kodalite lighting setups Kodacolor film additional lenses and more. Worldcat locates 1 similar copy at Kunst & Museumsbibliothek der Stadt. Eastman Kodak Co., [Eastman Kodak Stores, 643 So. Hill St.], paperback
192959008Chicago IL Hollywood CA New York & London: Bell & Howell Co. 1929. Three catalogues in one. 8vo. 8; 4; 6 2 pp. price-list. Black & white photo illustrations diagrams printed in blue & black self-printed photo-illustrated softcovers preserved in original portfolio. First edition of this portfolio catalogue for Bell & Howell Filmo movie cameras and 8 mm & 16 mm home movie projectors at the end of the Jazz Age. Amateur movie makers and enthusiasts could purchase not only the cameras and projectors but also film editing equipment indoor lighting setups stop-motion animation props and equipment and more. The demand for the Filmo camera and projectors was so great they made up nearly two-thirds of all Bell & Howell’s development work through World War II. Bell & Howell Co., paperback
193359007Chicago IL Hollywood CA New York & London: Bell & Howell Co. Feb. 10 1933 8vo. 76 pp. With black & white photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams. Colour-illustrated gold metallic softcovers cover art of young woman shooting with a Filmo camera yapp edges slight shelfwear NF. First edition of this catalogue for Bell & Howell Filmo movie cameras and 8 mm & 16 mm home movie projectors and cabinets during the Great Depression. Amateur movie makers and enthusiasts could purchase not only the cameras and projectors but also film editing equipment indoor lighting setups stop-motion animation props and equipment and more. The demand for the Filmo camera and projectors was so great they made up nearly two-thirds of all Bell & Howell’s development work through World War II. Bell & Howell Co., paperback
192861470New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. 8vo. 8 271 1 pp. plus 8 pp. publ. ads. Photo frontisp. 12 photo plates. Gray cloth blue lettering w/ d.j. great cover art of World War I aviator Gary Cooper and love interest Colleen Moore very slight shelfwear 1 tiny chip at lower right corner still NF/VG bright copy. First photoplay edition of this excellent photoplay adapted from the 1928 synchronized sound World War I film directed by George Fitzmaurice and featuring Gary Cooper in one of his earliest starring roles opposite Colleen Moore and adapted from Jane Murfin & Jane Cowl’s 1917 Broadway play. Although without dialogue the film premiered to great success in Los Angeles’s Cathay Circle Theatre with a sound-on-disc Vitaphone process for the musical score and featured the wreackage of one of the RAF biplanes crashed during production. Two years later Guy Fowler would novelie Howard Hawks famed “Dawn Patrol.†Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
193161600Hollywood CA & Portland OR: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Egyptian Theater 1931. Double atlas folio. 28 x 44 in. One hand-painted & lettered lobby poster vivid Art Deco lettering in red white green & blue three windows cut for mounting 3 separate 8 x 10 in. original studio silver gelatin photographs from verso bordered in yellow minor edgewear scuffing faint tidemark to very upper left fore-edge tear not affecting lettering or design to right fore-edge margin still a VG- exemplar. An exceptional hand-painted Jazz Age Art Deco lobby poster for the pre-code 1931 MGM comedy film “The Bachelor Father†directed by Robert Z. Leonard and screenplay by Edward Childs Carpenter & Laurence E. Johnson based on the 1928 Broadway play. Set against the backdrop of a plot featuring an aging Sir Basil Algernon Winterton played by C. Aubrey Smith in both Broadway Play and film who is urged to reacquaint himself with his three illegitimate children from three different liaisons in his youth. Marion Davies stars as Antoinette “Tony†Flagg initially believes she is one of the lost daughters but discovers the original daughter had died and chooses to leave England only to crash in her friends plane and survive to reunite and marry Sir Basil’s assistant John Ashley. Many of the plot lines and dialogue could not have been produced after the imposition of the 1934 Motion Picture Production Code including several casual references to Sir Basil’s affairs casual approach to his bastard children and even keeping a ledger of all his lover’s names and dates of the affairs. Graeper 1875-1970 had taken over the management and ownership of the Union Ave. Theater at 539 Union Ave. in Portland before 1914 expanded its seating capacity in 1916-17 just prior to the US entrance into World War I. The Egyptian Theater was opened in 1924 adorned with exotic decorations such as Egyptian revival pillars pyramids and ornamental urns with lotus flower motifs. The architect was Edward A. Miller and featured 866 seats on the main floor and 344 in the balcony closing after 1963 to become a warehouse. The musical accompaniment for the silent films and Vaudeville acts in the Egyptican were from a Wurlitzer Style F opus #855 pipe organ shipped by the Wurlitzer factory in July 1924 later moved to the Scottish Rite Temple in 1936. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios; Egyptian Theater, unknown
194461476Chicago IL: Rand McNally & Co. 1944. Folio. 9 x 13 in. 16 pp unpaginated. Four colour plates containing 80 images to be cut-out and pasted double-page photo spreads in black & white from the film; self-printed colour-illustrated and photo-illustrated softcovers photo spreads on versos minor age toning some minor shelfwear very slight closed tear at foot of spine still a VG copy. First edition of this activity book promotion distributed to moviegoers attending the 1944 Universal Pictures film Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves starring Maria Montez Jon Hall and Turhan Bey one of several “Exotic†tales released by Universal during World War II along with Cobra Woman Arabian Nights and White Savage. The colour comic strips were to each be cut out and then carefully pasted into the provided blank squares allowing the viewer to read as a continuous strip. Rand McNally & Co., paperback
198863474Arlington Heights IL: Dark Harvest 1988. 8vo. 369 3 pp. Numerous illustrations. Burgundy-coloured textured publisher’s boards silver lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by Kevin Davies NF/NF copy. First trade edition of this anthology collecting 19 modern horror stories set against the backdrop of bizarre lives and deaths of men and women working in TV and film including such authors as F. Paul Wilson Robert Bloch Karl Edward Wagner Clive Barker Robert McCammon Richard Matheson and others. Dark Harvest, hardcover
195961384Hollywood CA: United Artists Corporation 1959. Oblong folio. 11 x 14 in. 8 leaves. Colour-lithograph lobby cards on thick paper stock some dustsoiling thumbing to fore-edges minor bumping to couple corners still a VG set. First edition of this complete set of movie theatre lobby cards for this 1959 Film Noir Las Vegas heist movie featuring the sultry Mamie Van Doren as the femme fatale gangster’s mole juxtaposed with the resentment and violence between Gerald Mohr and Lee Van Cleef over Van Doren’s affections. No copies in Worldcat. United Artists Corporation, unknown
1934155050Madrid: Cronica 1934. First Edition. First Edition. Issue VI No. 218 of the Spanish film periodical. Featuring a cover story on actress Grace Bradley. Text and titles in Spanish. <br /> <br /> 11 x 15 inches. 36 leaves side stapled. Very Good with moderate wear on the last leaf. Cronica unknown
1936155049Warsaw: Kino International 1936. First Edition. First Edition. Five issues of the long-running Polish film periodical including Issue III No. 7 Issue V No. 3 Issue VI No. 48 and Issue VII Nos. 19 and 41 Featuring cover stories on actress Pat Paterson and actor Fredric March. Text and titles in Polish. <br /> <br /> 9.75 x 14.75 inches. Approximately 15 pages. Issues Very Good plus to Very Good overall. Kino International unknown
1935155053Various cities: Swiatowid 1935. First Edition. First Edition. Issue XI No. 45 of the Polish weekly film magazine. Text and titles in Polish.<br /> <br /> 11.5 x 15.75 inches. 23 pages. Very Good plus with moderate edgewear and toning. Swiatowid unknown
1937155051Various cities: Swiatowid 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Issue XIV No. 12 of the Polish weekly film magazine. Text and titles in Polish. <br /> <br /> 11.5 x 15.75 inches. 23 pages. Very Good plus with moderate edgewear and toning. Swiatowid unknown
544201920 - 1930. A collection of 20 individual stock certificates with coupons attached for various cinematic companies which include: Compagine Universalle Cinématographique; Société Française d'Editions de Romans Historiques Filmés; Filmfabriek Hollandia te Haarlem; La Cinématographie Française; Société Continentale Photomaton; Compagnie Industrielle des Films; Société Française Cinéchromatique; Syndicat du Film; Société Française des Films et Cinématographes "Eclair"; and others. Ranging in size from 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches to 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. One certificate is lacking a small portion of an upper corner a few have minor creases a few are folded where the coupons attach and most have all the attached coupons. A near fine collection. unknown
004941Bradford: W. E. Berry Ltd. 1975. Printed poster UK quad approximately 1010mm x 760mm in size backed on to linen with another 10mm margin all around. Hint of old folds with minor wear to the folds some colour retouching to the pink colour on one of the folds otherwise quite bright and clean. The cult classic by Richard O'Brien starring Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon with the poster designed by John Pasche who is probably best known for the Rolling Stones' lips and tongue logo. The original issue with the 'AA' rating rather than the later re-release with the '15' rating. An attractive example of an uncommon poster. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Illus. by Pasche John. Double Elephant Oblong. Poster. W. E. Berry Ltd. Paperback
1915171083Philadelphia: Philadelphia Department of Public Safety 1915. Vintage Philadelphia Department of Public Safety Operator's License "regulating the Operations of Moving Picture Machines" issued February 27 1915.<br /> <br /> License issued to a Frank C. Jobson with his passport-style photograph affixed to the upper right corner of the recto. Seal of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety blindstamp at bottom left corner of the photograph. Signatory for the Director of the Department of Public Safety still visible below the date.<br /> <br /> 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus with two previous vertical creases two tiny chips one to each of the right corners even toning and light overall soiling and two tiny pieces of cello tape one to the upper left and one to the bottom right of the recto. Philadelphia Department of Public Safety unknown
