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  • Mamet David.
    BAMBI VS. GODZILLA: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practise of the Movie Business

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A subversive look at the movie industry by a veteran screenwriter and director "but that doesn't mean he has any great love for the industry - his Hollywood is the stereotypically corrupt and cutthroat world where screenwriters willingly change their stories to accommodate every stupid suggestion from producers, who are blatantly lining their own pockets, while stars bicker over who has the bigger trailer. But his stories are entertaining even when they're unsurprising." (Reed) Includes a 32 page appendix with a list of all the films referenced, index. xii, 250 pp. ISBN: 978-0375422539.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 91989
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  • BULLETS OVER HOLLYWOOD: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To "The Sopranos." by McCarty, John.
    McCarty, John.
    BULLETS OVER HOLLYWOOD: The American Gangster Picture From The Silents To "The Sopranos."

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Da Capo Press / Perseus, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The antihero gangster is admired "because he's an unbound character who goes where he wants, does what he wants and 'takes no bull from anybody.' The author conveys the appeal of these reckless outlaws, personified in film by such icons as Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, through concise analyses of key crime films and personal histories of the genre's central stars, directors and writers. He kicks off with 1915's Regeneration and shoots through White Heat (1949), The Godfather (1972) and Chicago (2002). He credits D.W. Griffith for making the first gangster picture of any importance, The Musketeers of Pig Alley. He applauds Silky…

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    New York: Da Capo Press / Perseus, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The antihero gangster is admired "because he's an unbound character who goes where he wants, does what he wants and 'takes no bull from anybody.' The author conveys the appeal of these reckless outlaws, personified in film by such icons as Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, through concise analyses of key crime films and personal histories of the genre's central stars, directors and writers. He kicks off with 1915's Regeneration and shoots through White Heat (1949), The Godfather (1972) and Chicago (2002). He credits D.W. Griffith for making the first gangster picture of any importance, The Musketeers of Pig Alley. He applauds Silky Jane Greer for her haunting, indelible portrayal of Kathy Moffat in 1947's Out of the Past and brings Richard Widmark vibrantly alive as the psychopath who pushes wheelchair-bound Mildred Dunnock down a flight of stairs."(Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with photographs. Includes appendices on the Oscars, and a list of American Ganster Pictures. Notes, selected bibliography, index. vii, 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0306813016.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89422
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  • EITHER YOU'RE IN OR YOU'RE IN THE WAY: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, And One Filmmaking Hell-ride To Keep A Promise To Their Father. by Miller, Logan and Noah Miller.
    Miller, Logan and Noah Miller.
    EITHER YOU'RE IN OR YOU'RE IN THE WAY: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, And One Filmmaking Hell-ride To Keep A Promise To Their Father.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When their homeless father died alone in a jail cell twin brothers Logan and Noah vowed to make a film in his honor - this is the story of how they succeeded despite all obstacles. INSCRIBED on the title page " Dear . . . Enjoy the ride" and SIGNED by both authors. 281 pp. ISBN: 978-0061763144.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.) Promotional book mark laid in.

    Book ID: 45579
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  • RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW: Film and History, Number 41, Spring 1988. by Musser, Charles and Robert Sklar, Robert, guest editors.
    Musser, Charles and Robert Sklar, Robert, guest editors.
    RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW: Film and History, Number 41, Spring 1988.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Radical History Review, 1988. First edition - An issue devoted to film and history, featuring articles like "Oh! Althusser!: Historiography and the rise of cinema studies" by Sklar; "Work, Ideology and Chaplin's Tramp" by Musser; "The Japanese tragedy: film censorship and the American occupation" by Kyoko Hirano' Ana Lopez, on the new Latin American cinema, and more. Illustrated. Notes on contributors, ads. 192 pp.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated silver wrappers (stamp on first page)

    Book ID: 78665
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  • RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend. by Orlean, Susan.
    Orlean, Susan.
    RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Spanning more than ninety years, this is an account of "Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon.It begins on a battlefield in France during World War I, when a young American soldier, Lee Duncan, discovered a newborn German shepherd in the ruins of a bombed-out dog kennel." Photographs. Notes on sources. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1439190135.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64124
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  • SHAGADELICALLY SPEAKING: The Words and World of Austin Powers. by [Powers, Austin] Gould, Lance.
    [Powers, Austin] Gould, Lance.
    SHAGADELICALLY SPEAKING: The Words and World of Austin Powers.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Warner, (1999). First edition - The "definitive guide not only to the second Austin Powers' movie, but to the whole Austin Powers craze. Find out what Austin thinks of life in the '90s versus the '60s; his thoughts on world leaders, from Moses to Margaret Thatcher; the history of the shag-pad, and more." Arranged alphabetically. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 151 pp. plus a 2 pp note from Dr Evil. ISBN: 0-446675792.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of back cover).

    Book ID: 84367
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  • THE ATOMIC CAFE: The Book of the Film. by Rafferty, Kevin; Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. Designed by David Larkin.
    Rafferty, Kevin; Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. Designed by David Larkin.
    THE ATOMIC CAFE: The Book of the Film.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Peacock Press / Bantam (1982). First edition - Small oblong format, illustrated throughout with images used in the film from Hiroshima to bomb tests to duck and cover drills. 122 pp. ISBN: 0-553014625.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79473
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  • ALANIS OBOMSAWIN: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker by Randolph Lewis
    Randolph Lewis
    ALANIS OBOMSAWIN: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2006). First edition - The first book devoted to any Native American filmmaker. "In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television." Illustrated with black and white photographs.Includes filmography, list of Native American documentaries, notes, bibliography, index. xxvi, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-803280459.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63130
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  • U-TURN: THE SHOOTING SCRIPT. by Ridley, John (screenplay and foreword) Stone, Olive (introduction)
    Ridley, John (screenplay and foreword) Stone, Olive (introduction)
    U-TURN: THE SHOOTING SCRIPT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Newmarket Press, 1997. First edition - Screenplay for the film based on Ridley's first novel, 'Stray Dogs.' Published as a trade paperback original. Includes a reproduction of the shooting script, a foreword by Ridley and an introduction by the director, Oliver Stone. Illustrated with stills from the movie. 145 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly curled).

    Book ID: 59151
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  • ROTHA ON THE FILM: A Selection of Writings About the Cinema. by Rotha, Paul (1907-1984)
    Rotha, Paul (1907-1984)
    ROTHA ON THE FILM: A Selection of Writings About the Cinema.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Faber & Faber, (1958). Hardcover first edition - Writings on both the history of film-making and the challenges it faces and comments on specific films by this English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic.. 338pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 30 pages of photographs.Three indexes - of films, name and general. 338 pp.

    Condition: Very good in brown cloth with a black title panel on spine and gilt lettering (offsetting to endpapers), no dust jacket. .

    Book ID: 91891
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  • YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU: Copy of Script. by Ruskin, Robert.
    Ruskin, Robert.
    YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU: Copy of Script.

    Edition: First thus.

    Los Angeles: 1938. Hardcover - A copy of the screenplay for this 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name and winner of both the 1938 year's Best Picture Academy Award, as well as earning Capra the Best Director award, his third Oscar in just 5 years. This is labeled "Third Draft, March 17, 1938" and printed in typescript on the recto only on punched paper and bound in pale green cardstock covers with 2 brass brads and a white typed label. The first page bears the stamp of Harold Hecht Corp, Los…

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    Los Angeles: 1938. Hardcover - A copy of the screenplay for this 1938 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, and Edward Arnold. Adapted by Robert Riskin from the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play of the same name and winner of both the 1938 year's Best Picture Academy Award, as well as earning Capra the Best Director award, his third Oscar in just 5 years. This is labeled "Third Draft, March 17, 1938" and printed in typescript on the recto only on punched paper and bound in pale green cardstock covers with 2 brass brads and a white typed label. The first page bears the stamp of Harold Hecht Corp, Los Angeles. (Hecht, 1907-1985 was a film producer, choreographer, talent agent and more) 166 pp. A piece of film history and quite uncommon.

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    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 90710
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  • SHOOTING WATER. by Saltzman, Devyani.
    Saltzman, Devyani.
    SHOOTING WATER.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Newmarket Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Saltzman, the daughter of Toronto filmmaker and the acclaimed Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, tells the story of how she reunited with her mother during the shooting of the controversial film "Water;" about the fate of Hindu widows in India in 1938. INSCRIBED and dated in October 2007 on the title page. Maps, photographs. Afterword by Deepa Mehta. Reading group guide. Index. 287 pp. ISBN: 9781557047854.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 53701
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  • SHOOTING WATER. by Saltzman, Devyani.
    Saltzman, Devyani.
    SHOOTING WATER.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Newmarket Press, (2007.). SIGNED - Saltzman, the daughter of Toronto filmmaker and the acclaimed Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, tells the story of how she reunited with her mother during the shooting of the controversial film "Water;" about the fate of Hindu widows in India in 1938. SIGNED on the title page. Maps, photographs. Afterword by Deepa Mehta. Reading group guide. Index. 287 pp. ISBN: 9781557047854.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 53700
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  • THE FACE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship. by Schumach, Murray.
    Schumach, Murray.
    THE FACE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the pressure groups pushing for censorship in the mid-20th century, the movie blacklist and how many blacklisted members still got work in the Hollywood underground, the films on which the censors went to work, and how did Hitchcock seem to evade them. Illustrated with 40 pages of photographs, many depicting scenes from films not allowed to be shown on the screen. Appendix with the Motion Picture Production code. Index. 305 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket with some overall edgewear, chip to upper edge of front cover.

    Book ID: 86163
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  • Shorris, Sylvia and Marion Abbott Bundy, editor; Foreword by Robert Altman,
    TALKING PICTURES: With the People Who Made Them.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes almost forty interviews with those involved in films - from producers and directors to script girls, stunt woman, screenwriters and film editors and even agents - from Hollywood's golden age. They describe the machinations of such moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Darryl Zanuck, the role of nepotism, the informal working environment in those days, and the wide range of people, from craftsmen to con men, employed. Illustrated with photographs. Includes filmographies at the end of each interview. Foreword by Robert Altman. Bibliography, glossary. xxviii, 372 pp. ISBN: 1-565841751.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease on flap of dj)

    Book ID: 78864
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  • CITY BOYS: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. by Sklar, Robert L.
    Sklar, Robert L.
    CITY BOYS: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover - The "type" created by James Cagney with "The Public Enemy" in 1931, and later developed by Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield, was that of the urban tough guy - sometimes a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye. This book blends the stories of both the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield and examines the cultural forces that produced these "city boys." Photographs, notes, sources, index. xiii, 311 pp. ISBN: 0-691047952.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81859
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  • BRAT PACK AMERICA: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies. by Smokler, Kevin.
    Smokler, Kevin.
    BRAT PACK AMERICA: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Contains interviews with actors, writers, and directors of the era, an the author's own experiences attending Goonies Day in Astoria, OR, taking a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz, CA, and more. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map inside covers, selected bibliography. 341 pp. ISBN: 978-1942600671.

    Condition: Very near fine in a illustrated black wrappers.

    Book ID: 84770
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  • QUESTIONS ARE FOREVER: JAMES BOND AND PHILOSOPHY. by South, James B. And Jacob M. Held, editors
    South, James B. And Jacob M. Held, editors
    QUESTIONS ARE FOREVER: JAMES BOND AND PHILOSOPHY.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Chicago: Open Court, (2006). First edition - Includes fifteen essays which "discuss hidden issues in Bond's world, from his carnal pleasures to his license to kill. Among the topics explored are Bond's relation to existentialism, his objectification of women; the paradox of breaking the law in order to ultimately uphold it, the personality of 007 and the Hegelian quest for recognition evinced by Bond villains," and Bond's softer side in multiculturism and women. A title in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series. Includes a reference guide to all the Bond movies, notes on the contributors and index. xv, 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0812696073.

    Condition: Good overall in glossy illustrated wrappers (some crinkling to lower corner of textblock from dampness, no staining).

    Book ID: 91108
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  • "WHERE GOD PUT THE WEST": Movie Making in the Desert: A Moab-Monument Valley Movie History. by Stanton, Bette L.
    Stanton, Bette L.
    "WHERE GOD PUT THE WEST": Movie Making in the Desert: A Moab-Monument Valley Movie History.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Moab, UT: Four Corners Publications, (1994). First edition - Large format trade paperback, illustrated on every page with photographs and vintage movie stills. Map inside front cover, lists of films, tables, bibliography. viii, 184 pp. ISBN: 0-9441230203.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88440
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  • OLIVER STONE'S U.S.A: Film, History, and Controversy. by [Stone, Oliver, signed bookplate] Toplin, Robert Brent, editor.
    [Stone, Oliver, signed bookplate] Toplin, Robert Brent, editor.
    OLIVER STONE'S U.S.A: Film, History, and Controversy.

    Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.

    Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (2000). SIGNED (bookplate)- A book which combines the views of some of Stone's most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows Stone to respond to their views. Includes contribtions from writers like David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Walter Lafeber, and Robert Rosenstone, who critique Stone's films to show how they may distort, amplify, or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict. "These essays - on Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Heaven and Earth, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - enlarge our understanding of Stone's films, while also giving us a fuller appreciation of the filmmaker as artist and intellectual. They reveal how Stone's…

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    Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, (2000). SIGNED (bookplate)- A book which combines the views of some of Stone's most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows Stone to respond to their views. Includes contribtions from writers like David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Walter Lafeber, and Robert Rosenstone, who critique Stone's films to show how they may distort, amplify, or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict. "These essays - on Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Heaven and Earth, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - enlarge our understanding of Stone's films, while also giving us a fuller appreciation of the filmmaker as artist and intellectual. They reveal how Stone's experience in Vietnam colors his views of American government and corporate culture and suggest new ways of looking at the complex tensions between art and history that shape Stone's films."
    Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by Oliver Stone on a bookplate on the half title page. Includes notes, selected bibliography, list of contributors, index. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-700612572.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81412
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  • TEMPEST STORM: The Lady is a Vamp. by Storm, Tempest with Bill Boyd.
    Storm, Tempest with Bill Boyd.
    TEMPEST STORM: The Lady is a Vamp.

    Edition: First printing.

    Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Boldly INSCRIBED by Tempest Storm on front endpaper 'To Randy, Love and Passion' and dated in 19898. Autobiiography of the last star of burlesque. Includes 10 pages of black and white photos. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-934601-259.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Rather uncommon, and especially so in this condition and inscribed.

    Book ID: 87729
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  • HOLLYWOOD DRAG. by Suares, J. C., editor; J. Spencer Beck, captions.
    Suares, J. C., editor; J. Spencer Beck, captions.
    HOLLYWOOD DRAG.

    Edition: First printing.

    Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In the most outrageous volume of his eight-part 'Hollywood' series, editor J. C. Suares has assembled a brilliant and daring collection of vintage and contemporary photograps by Tinseltown's most celebrated photographers." Two books published back to back and reversed (one half shows male cinema stars in drag, the other half female). 80 pp. ISBN: 1-565660560.

    Condition: Fine in glossy gold boards in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88311
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  • TELEVISION: A Biography. by Thomson, David.
    Thomson, David.
    TELEVISION: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Thames and Hudson, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "a critical history, or 'biography' of the six-decade television era" organized thematically. A large and heavy book, befitting the enormous amount of material in it, illustrated with photographs in both black and white and full color. SIGNED on the half title page. Notes on sources, index. 412 pp. ISBN: 978-0500519165.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 68458
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  • BBC YEARBOOK 1951. by Tudsbery, M. T,; Hugh Carlton Greene, Noel Streatfeild, Robert Dunnett and others.
    Tudsbery, M. T,; Hugh Carlton Greene, Noel Streatfeild, Robert Dunnett and others.
    BBC YEARBOOK 1951.

    Edition: First edition.

    London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes nineteen articles, eighteen "sound and vision personalities of the year" and an enlarged reference section. Illustrated throughout with photographs, but also featuring 16 pages of photos of outstanding television programs. Index 192 pp.

    Condition: Very good in pale blue-green cloth in a fair only dust jacket with rubbing, edgewear and tear on rear cover.

    Book ID: 85055
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  • MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL. by Vadim, Roger.
    Vadim, Roger.
    MEMOIRS OF THE DEVIL.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the French film director, focusing on his three wives - Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda. Translated from the French by Peter Beglan. Illustrated with photographs. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-151119066.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 86931
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  • Van Sant, Gus.
    MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO & EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES.

    Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.

    London & Boston: Faber & Faber, 1993. In addition to the screenplays for the two movies listed in the title, this includes an interview with Van Sant by Graham Fuller, a filmography of the movies he directed, and stills from both films. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-571-169201.

    Condition: Fine in stiff glossy covers.

    Book ID: 26950
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  • [Wood, Natalie] Lambert, Gavin.
    NATALIE WOOD: A Life.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover - Biography of this actress, who died of drowning at only 43, by this novelist, screenwriter - and friend of Wood for over 20 years. Photographs. Notes, index. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410740.

    Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's name.)

    Book ID: 30932
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