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

Prague: Barrandov Film Studio, 1971. Oblong octavo (23 × 25.8 cm). Original printed dust wrappers over blind paper wrappers; [92] pp. Dust wrapper lightly discolored; else very good. Photo-illustrated album showcasing twenty-five years of work in the nationalized Barrandov Film Studios in Prague. Full-page black-and-white photographs are interspersed with text..... More

Moscow; Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1926. Octavo (20 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 104 pp. Numerous graphs, charts, and illustrations. Light wear and soil to corners; wrappers very lightly spotted; still about very good. Intended for political educators, this handbook is a practical guide for organizing cultural and educational events around..... More

Leningrad: "Academia", 1927. Octavo (18 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 187, [5] pp. Partially uncut. Book store stamp to inside of rear wrapper. Very good. First Russian translation of one of the earliest works on the philosophy of cinema by the writer, journalist, and film critic Rudolf Harms (1901–1984)..... More

Moscow-Leningrad: Kinopechat’, 1927. Octavo (17.3 × 12.9 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Numerous black and white photographs throughout. Very good or better. This fan biography of the Russian and Soviet stage actress Alisa Koonen (1889–1974) aims to distance the actress from her bourgeois roots and her beginnings in decadent..... More

Moscow: Kinopechat‘, 1927. Octavo (17.5 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 31 pp. Some minor soiling and damp-staining; light toning; overall about very good. Second edition. A NEP-era fan booklet dedicated to the Hollywood star couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The couple visited the Soviet Union in the summer..... More

Prague: Filmový ústav, 1966. Octavo (20 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Jaroslava Veselá; 220 pp. of reproduced typescript to rectos and versos. Very good; in protective mylar. The first volume to gather Karel Teige's various articles on film, mostly published during the 1920s and 1930s, with a lengthy..... 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

Bratislava: Dav, 1933. Octavo (19 × 13.8 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 47, [1] pp. Light toning to wrapper edges; else very good. First and only edition of this Slovak translation of Viennese psychoanalist Annie Reich's 1932 book on children's sexual education, "Wenn dein Kind dich fragt..." With wrappers by Jozef..... More