Collection: Film

NY: Anthology Film Archives, 1997. 72pp.; index. 4to; saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Very good or better, with bump to top corner. An authoritative guide to the cinema of visual artist and experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990). Includes a filmography, interviews, a dozen essays (including... More

Rollinsville, CO: Self-published, [circa 1971]. [12]pp. Octavo; saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. Very near fine, with mild toning along spine. An undated but circa early 1970s mail-order catalog for Stan Brakhage films: 35 8mm films with brief descriptions, and 35 16mm films. Laid in is an... More

NY: Sonnabend Gallery, 1974. Off-white card, 5-3/4 x 4-7/8 in., printed recto only. About near fine, with light toning and a touch of corner wear. Announcement card published in conjunction with this group show at Sonnabend Gallery January 8-12, 1974; an impressive line-up, and Haxton's... More

 London: Michael Joseph, 1972. First UK edition, preceding the American edition of 1973. 166pp. Octavo; blue textured-paper boards; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Light spotting/soiling to top of textblock; light bumping to spine ends. Very good or better in a near fine jacket, price-clipped. First... More

NY: Ecco, 2009. First edition (full number line on copyright page). Ix, 306pp.; 8vo; mottled tan papered boards; dust jacket. Textblock edges moderately toned (inferior paperstock); light bumping to spine ends. Near fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. First American edition of the German director's... More

First edition of this wide-ranging collection of interviews with the American filmmaker. London/Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997. First printing (full number line on copyright page). Octavo, 9-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. xiii, 269pp., with index. Gray textured-paper boards; tan spine lettering; dust jacket. Minor bumping to... More

Uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of essays on various filmmakers (Melies, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Murnau, etc.). Presented in three sections, "The First Book," "Comedy Tragi/Comedy" and "Narrative as Religion," introduced respectively by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport.  Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1977. First... More

Uncommon collection of essays by the polymathic video artist and theorist. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996. First edition. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 7 1/2 x 5 in. 303pp. Near fine, with mild toning and wear to wraps. More

An obscure and fitting edition of one of the 20th century's great literary hoaxes NY: Key Publishing Co., 1957. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.); 146pp.; tan textured paper boards, red spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some light spotting to the boards; small area of foxing... More

Signed, limited edition of this quintessential Jazz Age narrative poem by an early New Yorker editor and author of another of the era’s signature poems, The Wild Party (1926). Written in terse rhyming couplets, The Set-Up concerns an aging Black boxer, Pansy Jones, who is... More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1976. Second printing, as designated by number line and corrected ISBN on copyright page (but with the uncorrected misprinting of "always" as "adways" still present on p. 27). In a first state dust jacket (distinguished as such by the... More

NY: Ballantine, 1968. 14th printing, with cover featuring a still from the Francois Truffaut film adaptation of the same name. Signed and briefly inscribed by Bradbury on the title page. Mass-market paperback, 7 x 4.25 in., 147 pp. Very good condition, with moderate rubbing to... More

London: Verso, 1985. 8vo. 167pp., indexed. Black textured paper boards, gilt spine titles. First edition. Very light bumping to front board corners, else very near fine in a near fine jacket with some fading to spine panel. A collection of essays by the noted film critic. More