Prague. Fr. Tichý, February–December, 1937. Quartos (26.8 × 21.4 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers; ca. 24 pp. per issue (consecutive pagination totaling 252 pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. About very good; occasional light discoloration or foxing. Nearly complete second year run of this monthly journal for amateur cinematographers, published from..... More

Paris: Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, 1952. 22 x 17.5 cm. Original cardstock wrappers, light green front cover and black-and-white illustrated rear cover featuring a drawing by Gabriel Pomerand. 286 pp., scattered illustrations showing images from photographs. Some creasing to front cover, light browning and dust-staining to wrappers, minor wear along spine, slight..... More

Altogether 23 issues, each circa 19 pp., of the rare postwar German film magazine documenting the lives and work of German and American film actors, each issue including profiles of actors such as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe..... More

Tbilisi: Sakartvelos k’ino (Georgian cinema), 1926. Octavo (18 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi; 32 pp. With six illustrations, of which five full-page. Text toned due to stock; rust to staple; else about very good. Early Georgian-language monograph about the popular film actress Nato (Natalia) Vachnadze (1904-1953)..... More

96 pp. text on the art of film, bibliography, 203 illus. on plates showing stills from early movies. Large 8vo. Cloth, shaken and somewhat soiled, spine detaching. Stuttgart (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt) 1928. More

Leningrad: Nauchnoe knigoizdatel’stvo, 1925. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 154, [6] pp. With forty-nine smaller drawings in the text. Small nick to front wrapper; spine extremities very lightly frayed; text evenly toned; still about very good. First edition in Russian. This early film history, oriented toward industry..... More

[Berlin: self-published, 1985]. Quarto (A4). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 15, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs. Very good. Scarce program issued for the first festival of erotic film in Berlin, held in the summer of 1985. Its goal was to "give an overview of the as yet unexplored regions of..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. 12mo (14.25 × 11.25 cm). Original staple stitched pictorial wrappers; 14, [2] pp. Illustrations. Light soil to rear wrapper, else very good. Soviet fan biography of the American silent cinema star Buster Keaton (1895–1966) by the Soviet journalist and translator Semen Gekht (1903–1963). With constructivist inspired wrappers..... More

First edition. Prague: Propagační odd. Ústřední půjčovny filmů, [1966]. Quarto (29.7 × 20.8 cm). Single sheet, printed to recto and verso, folded three times to created a folding leaflet of [8] pp. Very good or better. Rare promotional brochure for one of the finest examples of Czechoslovak New Wave film..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1927. 12mo (14 × 11 cm). Original staple stitched pictorial wrappers; 14, [2] pp. Illustrations. Wrappers detached from block; else about very good; light rubbing to spine fold. Soviet fan biography of the American silent cinema star Corinne Griffith (1894–1979) co-written by the young Sergei Iutkevich (Yutkevich; 1904–1985)..... More

Moscow: Kinofotoizdat, 1936. Octavo (22.2 x 14.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 208 pp. Light overall wear to wrappers, with restoration to corners; spine with recent repairs; leaves somewhat brittle; some pages have pencil marks; still good. This “Film repertoire index” is a fascinating historical document containing a detailed list of..... More

Leningrad: "Academia", 1926. Octavo (18 × 13.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 195, [5] pp. Illustrations. Partially uncut. Small chip to lower spine extremity. Still about very good. First Russian translation of Moussinac’s classic text on the history and theory of American, French, German, and Swedish cinema, originally published as “Naissance..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat’, 1926. Small octavo (15 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched illustrated wrappers; 16 pp. Photo-illustrations throughout. Small ink stain to rear wrapper and in text, else very good. First edition. Soviet fan biography of the American silent cinema star Milton Sills (1882-1930), co-written by the young Sergei Iutkevich (Yutkevich;..... More