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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 253 pages. 12 colour plates and 112 black and white illustrations. In this book Sir John Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre, of the plays he starred in, and directed, of the actors and actresses he worked with - from Mrs. Patrick Campbell to Richard Burton - and of the theatres in which he has played - from New York to Rangoon. He also tells of the theatre he knew as a young man, the theatre that was run by the great actor/managers, men like Tree and du Maurier, and of the star actresses whose name alone could fill a theatre - Eleonora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt, and, of course, his own great-aunt, Ellen Terry. With the aid of many photographs from his own collection, he recounts not only his own life, but also a well documented history of the British theatre. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near… Read More

London: Phoenix House, 1949. Red title to spine and six acting figures in red on yellow cloth boards which are clean and unmarked apart from a small mark to back and with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with light foxing only to closed edges. An interesting work with short chapters on Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, Siddons, Kean, Irving and the role of the audience. 8 photographic illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. In collaboration with John Miller and John Powell. Silver title on brown cloth boards - a near Fine copy. Dustjacket has coloured photograph of Gielgud to front with photographs in black and white of some of his roles to rear and is near Fine.12 coloured plates and 111 black and white illustrations. A fascinating autobiography by undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century profusely illustrated with many photographs from his own collection. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 2003. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to rear) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. Hailed as one of Britain's greatest living directors and certainly one of cinema's authentic visionaries. Boorman enjoyed an archetypal English suburban boyhood in the 1940's and 1950's, attending Catholic school and finding his first employment running a dry-cleaning business. But his passion was for film, getting his big break during the 'goldrush' of British television in the 1960's. After directing several innovative documentaries for the BBC, he graduated to motion pictures, and eventually to his first masterpiece 'Point Blank', which inaugurated his profound friendship with Lee Marvin. Illustrated with photographs. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy in Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 316 pages. 38 illustrations. Photograph endpapers of Sir Alec being made up for a part. Published in the year of Sir Alec Guinness's eightieth birthday, Garry O'Connor's biography delves into the actor's complex, enigmatic personality and into the nature of his remarkable talent. He probes the formative spiritual and emotional events in his life - his illegitimacy, his unanchored childhood, and his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Drawing on interviews with scores of friends and colleagues, he traces Guinness's acting roots and, closely relating the man to the roles he has created, renders the drama of his development. With portraits of notable figures in Guinness's life, O'Connor recreates a remarkably diverse, long and distinguished career. 2. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Titan, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. A large format volume of 192 pages. The Alfred Hitchcock Story is the definitive illustrated history of the master of suspense. It is the most authoritative guide to the world's best loved and most respected film director. Starting with his early silent movies such as The Lodger through the classic British period of The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, to the evergreen Hollywood successes of Rebecca, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and beyond, Hitchcock was unquestionably the cinema-going public's favourite director. In later years, Hitch himself became an instantly recognisable celebrity through his long-running TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Now to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of his birth, this book presents the most lavishly illustrated celebration ever of the great director's work, featuring an amzing collection of over 450 rare… Read More

London: Harrap, 1980. A Fine copy with a near Fine dustjacket depicting a drawing of the Wyndham Theatre in 1889 and a photograph of Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore in 1890. A fascinating biography and history of Sir Charles Wyndham, Mary Moore and James Albery and the theatres that bear their name. Sir Charles served as a surgeon during the American Civil War before making a name as an actor, manager and proprietor and married Albery's widow Mary Moore, a talented actress and saviour of the family's fortunes. James Albery was an adapter of foreign plays and a dramatist who wrote for Henry Irving. B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. Gold title on blue boards which has a small mark to front but no wear. Internally some age darkening to endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening, a little wear to spine head and tail and is not price clipped. 286 pages. Frédéric O'Brady was born on December 11, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary as Frigyes Ábel and died on February 23, 2003 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is best defined as a French actor but also as a composer, a novelist, a polyglot, or a world-famous puppet master. In his long life he acted as a musical director to a team of Russian dwarfs, dubbed Peter Lorre's voice in French films, sold locomotives in Switzerland, fought against the Germans as a volunteer with the Foreign Legion, was imprisoned by Vichy for abetting British agents in Marseilles, became private secretary to the post-war Minister of the Interior, and at the age of 54 eloped with the star of the Folies Bergere. Dustjacket reverse has… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson, 1936. Black title on grey cloth boards which have a little fading to edges but clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an inscription to front endpaper and sporadic light foxing to some pages and closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. A Good + copy. Dustjacket is price clipped with a liitle foxing and age darkened at spine. The second edition revised with additional exercises, January 1936 (first was August 1935). An informative and readable treatise on acting and to quote Sir Cedric Hardwicke "Should prove of value to those for whom it is written". Covers the actor's approach to his art, his part, his speech, movement and stage management complete with numerous exercises on technique. B2C. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: A.S. Barnes, 1970. A Very Good unmarked copy in card covers.An illustrated guide to 500 key figures in the American Musical and index to over 1,750 films. 192 pages. Illustrated throughout. 51. First. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco: Morgan Kauffman/Academic Press, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards. xviii + 364 pages. INCLUDES unopened Software on CD-ROM. Computer-generated visual effects are now used extensively in feature films, commercial, music videos, and multimedia. The backbone of this process, the final and most important step, is known as digital compositing. This book is a comprehensive reference that provides a complete overview of the technical and artistic nature of this process. It covers a wide range of topics from basic image creation, representation, and manipulation to a look at the visual cues that are necessary to create a believable composite. The book provides more than 250 images and illustrations (including a 40 page colour insert) as well as a complete glossary of compositing and visual effects terminology. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all images in electronic form. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.14 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL… Read More

London: Bantam, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 31 pages. 56 illustrations. Complete filmography. The legendary actress's frank autobiography in which she tells the truth about the three men she loved and married: Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw, the Hollywood she knew in the 1940's, her upbringing in North carolina - the daughter of a sharecropper, and the films she made with a host of stars. Here too with characteristic candour, she reveals her tempestuous private life: the three stormy marriages that ended in divorce; the passionate affairs with matadors and movie stars; the complex 20 year friendship with Howard Hughes, the battles on and off screen. C3B. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 313 pages. 17 photographs and illustrations by the author. This is the final and in many ways the most searching volume of Dirk Bogarde's four-part autobiography. Bogarde focuses not on his acting career but on his character - which he sees as that of a hermit crab - as it has developed before and after that period, and on the personalities who form the 'backcloth' of his life.. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1977. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket.Translated by Roger Greaves. 305 pages. 15 Illustrations. An excellent biography of the creator of the Marriage of Figaro and the Barber of Seville, famous playwright, musician, inventor, soldier, spy and diplomat, confidant of kings and republicans. 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Gallery, 1989. A Fine unmarked copy which has a small address label to lower title page with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 64 pages. This lavishly illustrated biography tells the story of a star the like of whom we shall never see again. In a career that spanned almost 60 years, Bette Davis made more than 80 films, and not for nothing was she called the 'Queen of Hollywood'. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Pavilion, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 192 pages. Photo illustrations throughout. Film poster endpapers.After 55 years in the film industry Bette Davis has made over 90 films. Alexander Walker, who has known Bette Davis for 20 years, has pieced together her early life, from her dramatic entrance - she was born during a thunderstorm in 1908 - and unhappy childhood - her parents separated when she was six - to her promising career on the New York stage, interrupted in 1930 when Bette and her mother moved to Hollywood. The subsequent film career was by no means an instant success. In this elegant celebration Walker identifies the extraordinary qualities that enabled Bette Davis to survive the Hollywood system and become one of its most durable actresses. Filmography. PLEASE NOTE : A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.03 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 3. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.… Read More

London: Boxtree, 1995. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. 320 pages. 39 illustrations. For nearly 30 years Nichelle Nichols has been part of the Star Trek mythos, as Lieutenant Uhura, communications officer of the Starship Enterprise, and was the first African-American woman to have a major continuing role on television. Her candid and insightful biography takes readers on her life's voyage of personal discovery and professional triumph - beyond Uhura. B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge. xv + 224 pages. Illustrations in the text. In this work, Nelson George turns a lifetime of movie-watching and an unexpected career in movie-making into a book that looks at the African-American screen image from both a historical and a personal viewpoint. Blackface blends stories and anecdotes about the actual experiences of going to, being in, and making movies today with the sharply edged cultural ctiticism that has made him one of America's most widely read and respected critics. 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Lorrimer , 1986. A Very Good unmarked copy which has a little fading to spine and spine side and internally there is a name and address label to title page else clean, tight and unmarked. 111 pages. Photo illustrations. The Blue Angel was the first sound film to be made in Germany. It is hauntingly atmospheric today as it was when it was first made in 1931. The film made history by introducing Marlene Dietrich as Lola-Lola, the beautiful worldly cabaret artiste who ruins the life of an elderly professor when he falls in love with her. This role launched Dietrich on her remarkable career. The text is the authorised translation of the German continuity, with camera shots and complete dialogue from the final version. There is an illuminating original introduction by Josef von Sternberg, and more than 40 stills and production shots. 51. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Orion, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small stain to lower back board with VG dustjacket which has a stain to lower back and is not price clipped. ix + 261 pages. 54 illustrations. Bolt from the Blue is the final volume of the actress's three-part memoir and concentrates on her life with her late husband, the writer Robert Bolt, whom she married twice. A1D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.