Search Results: Authors starting with W from Cinemage Books

Hastings House. NY. 1954. Large cl.w.dj.. An early book on how tv programs & commercials were made in the early days of television. Inclds. chapters on design, lighting & special effects. Illus. throughout with 100's of marvelous photos, production candids & illus. Light rippling to top & b ottom edges of the 1st 3 or 4 pgs. + dj. wear & chipp. Vg/vg

NY Pellegrini & Cudahy 1952.. vg+/vg/chipp.& wear + neat mends to bold yellow & black dj. Wonderful early primer on the art & design of early t.v staging. Illus.w. nearly 200 charming photos & candids. 1st edition. Binding is oversz.cl.w.dj.

MN.: Lerner Publications, 1990. 1st Printing . Small Illus. Bds W. Dustjacket. Biography and career study of the major architect who just happened to be a woman. Best known as the arehitect of San Simeon she designed more than 700 buildings in her lifetime. Illustrated photographs and diagrams some in color. Fine/fine.

Phila. Chilton Books 1969.. 1st Edition . Cloth with Dustjacket. Scarce book of recollections of the actress by a wide range of friends & colleagues including Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Edith Sitwell & others. 8pgs. of b&w photos. Very tiny piece missing from the top edge of the spine panel & very minute soiling to the white back panel of the dj. Fine/fine

New York: Crown Pub., 1975. 1st Edition . Oversize Bds. & Cl. W. Dj.. Very fine career study of the great film pioneer & his remarkable career. Inclds. credits, plot summaries & over 400 rare stills & photos. Fine/fine

University Of Washington Book Store. Seattle. 1927. No. 7 in The University Of Washington Chapbook Series. Sm. Paper. PUBLISHED IN A LIMITED ED. OF 500. Rare early 26pg. analysis of the films of Ms. Gish. 1 portrait frontis pg. Listed in Academy monographs: 100 Rare Books From The Margaret Herrick Library by Anthony Slide. Vg+.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Oversize cloth with Dustjacket. Large full color book on eye catching shopping bags from around the world. Illustrated with 155 full color photographs. Price clipped. 1 tiny nick to the very top edge of the back panel. Fine/fine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. 1st Printing . Oversize cloth with Dustjacket. Lavish large visually dense book on using color to create and design rooms, houses & objects using the vast visual vocabulary of America. Includes material on how to choose fabrics, wallpapers, furniture & objects to create that perfect room. Also includes recipes and menus for all sorts of dining experiences. Eat your heart out Martha Stewart. Fine/fine

NY Simon & Schuster 1973.. vg+/sm. nick to bck. wrap.edge + rubb. to frnt. wrap. The screenplays for the above films + 64 stills. Wajda won a special Oscar in 2000. 1st print. edition. Binding is wraps.

Japan: Haga Shoten, 1989. 1st Japanese Edition . Large Paper. TEXT IN JAPANESE. Beautiful 103pg. glossy book on Rupert Everett that is illustrated with many full color & b&w photos & portraits. The Japanese text is minimal. Fire. Laid in is a nice color folder for Blithe Spirit which starred Everett.

Simon & Schuster. NY. 1972. 1st printing. Cl.w.dj.. Fine book on one of the great films of the 60's. Inclds. the screenplay, interviews with the director Arthur Penn + section of criticism including Pauline Kael's landmark New Yorker piece & excerpts from Bosley Crowther's reactionary New York Times review, which he later retracted. 69 stills. Light browning to pgs. which is usual with this book, remainder mark to the bottom edge, and very minute edge wear to the dj. Vg+/vg.

New York: Houghton-Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992. 1st Paper Edition . Large Paper. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY DAN WAKEFIELD. Memoirs about the social and literary worlds of beat New York City and the center of that universe, Greenwich Village. 16pgs. of photos. Fine. Laid in is a postcard by Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah from an exhibition of his titled "Save The Village." that was held in NYC in 2014.

New York: Random House, 1979. 1st Edition . Oversize Bds With Dustjacket. Very nice large pictorial history on the art and technique of airbrush illustration. Includes large section on the history of the medium along with full color sections on the work of many contemporary artists and illustrators along with behind the scenes and technical material. Illustrated in full color. Handsome. Price clipped. Fine/vg+

NY Dodd Mead & Co. 1940.. vg+/ no dj./a few tiny spots. on frnt. of cv. Condensed scripts for 7 popular films incld.Ninotchka,Rebecca & Mr. Smith.+ synopses on all films released & 7 stills on plt. Binding is cl. w/o. dj.

Ill. Southern Ill. Univ. Press 1979.. 1st Edition . Cloth with Dustjacket. REVIEW COPY WITH SLIP LAID IN. The Screenplay for Jules Dassin's gritty seminal New York noir thriller that has had a lasting impact on films even today, (see L.A. Confidential for proof of the fact). The film had a tangy script (Oscar nom. for best story), on location cinematography in New York City that won William Daniels a well deserved Oscar and several fine performances. Illustrated with 12 stills and a long afterword by Malvin Wald. Laid in is an errata slip. Faint ghost of a price label on endsheet, light wear and soiling to the dustjacket which is illustrated with a full color repro. of the poster and is also price clipped. Fine/vg.

New York: Penguin Books, 2000. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. . Paper. SIGNED BY ANNE WALDMAN. Meditations on the delights and pitfallls of marriages, both traditonal and nontraditional by the queen of the New York School of poets. Cover art by Francesco Clemente. Fine.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First Edition . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. Large book of tributes, poems, drawings, photographs andi interviews in homage to the late poet Ted Berrigan who died in 1983. A virtual who's who of the New York School of Poets have contributed to the book. A few tiny stain spots on the first few pgs. and a small old piece of tape and tiny scrape on the front panel of the dustjacket. vg/vg.

Vermont Z Press 1981.. Paper. Very Good. Vg+/tiny damp spot to frnt. top edge of wrap. light wrap. soil. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE POET. Coll. of poems by a leading poet of the N.Y. School. 1st. edition. Binding is yellow wraps.

New York: The Poetry Project At St. Marks Church In The Bowery., 1970. No. 18. . Paper. Scarce large poetry magazine published by the world famous Poetry Project in New York City. The issue includes work by Ted Berrigan, Jim Brodey, Jim Carroll, Thomas M. Disch, Kenward Elmslie, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, and many many other writers, artists & poets of note. Light wear to the covers, and minute chipping along the edges of the cover. otherwise vg+

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First British Edition . Oversize Boards & Cloth W. Dj.. SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER ON THE TITLE PG. Walker's 2nd childrens book and 2nd collaboration with Catherine Deeter who did the lovely full color illustrations. Uncommon signed. Fine/fine