Results for: Media & Journalism
The Big Cage.
Beatty, Clyde with Edward Anthony.
New York, NY: The Century Co., 1933.
Octovo bound in red cloth. Covers and page edges soiled. Covers scuffed. Spine somewhat faded. and cocked. Small white smudge on cover. former owner's name and address in ink on pastedown. A few marks in pen, and a very few underlined. Rear Hinge starting. Bookshop sticker on rear pastedown. 408 p. w/many illustrations at end. The autobiography of one of the greatest big cat trainers and performers, who was at his peak with the Clyde Beatty - Cole Bros.Circus.
Price: $15.00
Oscar Micheaux & His Circle : African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era.
Bowser, Pearl; Jane Gaines; and Charles Musser, editors and curators.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers with light blue mark on back cover. 353 pages with illustrations, 4 appendices (including 2 filmographies), endnotes, bibliography, and index. A collection of essays on the noted Afro-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and his contemporaries during the era of silent films.
Price: $25.00
Life to Those Shadows.
Burch, Noel. Translated and edited by Ben Brewster.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with scuffing to covers and light browning along edges. 317 pages with illustrations, bibliography, notes, filmography, and index. A study of film history in the context of its historical background in the West.
Price: $25.00
Concerned about the Planet: The Reporter Magazine and American Liberalism, 1949-1968.
Doudna, Martin K.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Very good octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with some light scuffing to covers. 197 pages with notes, selected bibliography, and index. A look at journalism and liberalism in the guise of The Reporter magazine.
Price: $15.00
New Media, 1740 - 1915.
Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B. Pingree.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 271 pages with illustrations, notes after each essay, and index.
Price: $18.00
Country Editor.
Hough, Henry Beetle.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940.
Good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of boards. Light scuffing to covers with some light black marks on spine and small stain there as well. Slight roll to spine. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. Page 171 has a photograph attached to upper corner (pasted?) and pencil note on lower edge of page. 325 pages.
Price: $18.00
Home Movies : A History of the American Industry, 1897 - 1979.
Kattelle, Alan D.
Nashua, NH: Transition Publishing, 2000.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges and some light scuffing to covers. 410 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography, 15 appendices, and index. A nice work on the history of home movies.
Price: $40.00
Mary Pickford, Comedienne.
Niver, Kemp R.
Los Angeles: Locare Research group, 1969.
Very good quarto (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 156 pages with illustrations, list of film titles, and index.
Price: $35.00
Early Motion Pictures : The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress.
Niver, Kemp R. Edited by Bebe Bergsten. Introduction by Erik Barnouw.
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1985.
Good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in brown cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine, upper corners of covers and along fore-edge of front cover. Light scuffing to covers. Light browning to page edges with a few darker marks on fore-edges. 509 pages with illustrations and indices. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size.
Price: $30.00
Warm Up the Snake : A Hollywood Memoir.
Rich, John.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boardswith minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 238 pages with illustrations and index. John Rich's account of his lifeas a director of movies and television.
Price: $15.00
An Hour with the Movies and the Talkies. The One Hour Series.
Seldes, Gilbert.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1929.
Good duodecimo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few small tears and nicks. Some scuffing to covers of dj with fading and waterstaining along spine. Pages are lightly browned. 156 pages. An essay on early films.
Price: $35.00
