Photography

Alexander Gardner, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (original edition 1866, reissued in 1959, $4.50, 224 pp.)

Ray Meredith, Mr. Lincoln's Cameraman: Mathew B. Brady (original edition 1946, reissued in slightly revised form in 1974, $6.95, 368 pp.)

Mary Black, Old New York in Early Photographs: 1853-1901 (new publication in 1973 (not a reprint), $6.00, 228 pp.)

Berenice Abbott, New York in the Thirties (original edition 1939, reissued 1973, $3.50, 100 pp.)

William Welling's Collector's Guide to Nineteenth Century Photographs (New York: Macmillan, 1976---$15.95/7.95)

Weston J. Naef and James N. Wood's Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West: 1860---1885 (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975---S25.00)

James L. Lager's Leica Illustrated Guide: 1925-1975 (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan and Morgan, Inc., 1975---$7.95, paper)

Mark Jacobs and Ken Kokrda's Photography in Focus (Skokie, Ill.: National Textbook Co., 1975---price not given, paper; with a "Curriculum Guide for Photography" instructor's manual available as well)

Claus-Peter Sdhmid's Photography for Artists and Craftsmen (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975---$9.95)     

Foreign Film

George Perry's The Great British Picture Show from the 90s to the 70s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974---$12.50)

Mildred Constantine and Alan Fern's Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1974---$12.95)

Michael Jon Stoil's Cinema Beyond the Danube: The Camera and Politics (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$6.00)

Antonin J. Liehn's Closely Watched Films: The Czechoslovak Experience (International Artistic Sciences Press, 901 North Broadway, White Plains, N.Y. 10603, 1974---$15.00)

Eleanor Beatty's A Handbook of Canadian Film (Toronto: Peter Martin Association with Take One, 1973---price not known, paper)

Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleschov (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974--- $10.00)

Susan Sontag's Brother Carl (New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974---$10.95/4.95)     

Film Genres

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts' The Great Spy Pictures (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$17.50)

Tam Perlmutter's War Movies (New York: Castle Books, 1974---$9.95)

John Cary and John Kobal's Spectacular: The Story of Epic Films (New York: Castle Books, 1974---$9.95)

Amos Vogel's Film as a Subersive Art (New York: Random House, 1974---$15.00)

Kenneth Turan and Stephen F. Zito's Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them (New York: Praeger, 1974---$3.95)     

Media Nostalgia

Frank Buxton and Bill Owen's The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950 (New York: Viking Press, 1972---$12.95)

Summers' A Thirty-Year History of Programs Carried on National Radio Networks in the United States (1958: reprinted by Arno Press, 1971---$10.00)

Hello Again (Mr. Jay Hickerson, 6 Koczak Court, North Haven, Conn. 06473)

Mary E. Bickel's George W. Trendle: An Authorized Biography (Jericho, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1972---$5.00)

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein, and Eleanor Clark's Those Great Movie Ads (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972--- $14.95)

Ron Goulart's Cheap Thrills: an Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972---$7.95)     

Stars

Whitney Stine's Mother Goddam: The Story of the Career of Bette Davis (New York: Hawthorne, 1974---$12.95)

Elizabeth: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Taylor (New York: Doubleday, 1974---$10.00)

Marilyn Monroe, My Story (New York: Stein & Day, 1974---$5.95)

Raymond Strait's The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1974---$7.95)

Jack Hawkins' Anything for a Quiet Life: An Autobiography (New York: Stein and Day, 1974---$7.95)

Richard Schickel's Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1974---$14.50)

Roger Manvell's Chaplin (Boston: Little-Brown, 1974---$6.95)

John McCabe's The Comedy World of Stan Laurel (New York: Doubleday, 1974---$7.95)

Arthur Lennig's The Count: The Life and Films of Bela “Dracula” Lugosi (New York: Putnam, 1974---$10.00)

Donald F. Glut's The Dracula Book (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press)

David Dalton's James Dean: The Mutant King (New York: Straight Arrow Books, 1974---$9.95)

Ray Milland's Wide-Eyed in Babylon: An Autobiography (New York: Morrow, 1974---$7.95)

Warren G. Harris' Gable and Lombard (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974---$7.95)

Anthony Curtis (ed.) The Rise and Fall of the Matinee Idol: Past Dieties of Stage and Screen, Their Roles Their Magic, and Their Worshippers (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974---$9.95)

Sol Chaneles and Albert Wolsky's The Movie Makers (Secaucus, N.J.: Derbibooks, 1974---$19.95)

John Kobal's 50 Super Stars (New York: Bounty Books/Crown, 1974---$9.95, paper)

John Springer and Jack Hamilton's They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars and Starlets of the 1930s (New York: Citadel, 1974---$19.95)

James Robert Parish's Hollywood's Great Love Teams (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974---$14.95)     

The Graphic Arts

Max Gallo's The Poster in History (New York: American Heritage/McGraw- Hill, 1974—$22.95)

Erich Salomon's Portrait of an Age ((New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1974—$7.50, paper)

M. Thomas Inge's “American Comic Art: A Bibliographic Guide,” Choice XI:1581-1593

Stan Lee's Origins of Marvel Comics (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974—$5.95, paper)

John Hedgecoe and Michael Langford's Photography: Materials and Methods published by Oxford University Press. Apparently Focal Press picked it up in London, and now a new smaller format but hardcover edition is just out from Hastings House (N.Y.) for $12.95     

Popular Illustration

Posterbooks, a roundup of seven paperback titles

Images of an Era: The American Poster, 1945-75 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1975---$12.50, paper)

Harry Harrison's Mechanismo (London: Pierrot Publishing Ltd./Morgans Run, Danbury, N.H.: Reed Books (Addison House)

John Lewis' Typography: Design and Practice (New York: Taplinger, 1978---$17.50 with a paperback also apparently available)

W.R. Miller et al's Graphic Arts (Bloomington, Ind.: McNight Publishing Co. (distributed by Taplinger in New York), 1978--- $3.96/2.64)

Bill Gray's More Studio Tips for Artists and Graphic Designers (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978---$4.95, paper)     

Film Technology

Ralph N. Sargent's Preserving the Moving Image (Washington: Corporation for Public Broadcaiting and National Endowment for the Arts, 1974---$3.95, paper)

Rene L. Ash's The Motion Picture Film Editor (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$6.00)

John Hales (ed.) Computer Animation (New York: Hastings House, 1974---$20.00)

George Fox's Earthquake: The Story of a Movie (New York: Signet Film Series, 1974---$1.25, paper)     

Hollywood: Films in General

Basil Wright's The Long View (New York: Knopf, 1974—$15.00)

Paul Sylbert's Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of Film (New York: Seabury Press, 1974—$7.95)

Gerson Kanin's Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols (New York: Viking Press, 1974—$8.95)

John Milton Hagen's Holly-Would! (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974—$7.95)

David Madden's Remembering James Agee (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974—$8.95)

Richard Lawton's A world of Movies: 70 Years of Film Art (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974—$19.95)

Bob Willoughby and Richard Schickel's The Platinum Years (New York: Random House, 1974—$25.00)

Stephen H. Scheuer's The Movie Book (New York: Playboy Press with distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1974— $17.95)

Cecil Munsey's Disneyana: Walt Disney Collectibles (New York: Hawthorne, 1974—$19.95)

George Barris and Jack Scagnetti's Cars of the Stars (Jonathan David, Publisher, Middle Village, N.Y. 11379, 1974—$16.95)     

Film Biography

Kenneth L. Geist's Pictures will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York: Scribner's, 1978---$12.95)

Two new books, one a revision, deal with another important director, Alfred Hitchcock

Donald Spoto's Stanley Kramer: Filmmaker (New York: Putnam, 1978---$12.95)

James Robert Parish, et al., Hollywood Character Actors (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978--- $30.00)

Jesse L. Lasky Jr. with Pat Silver, Love Scene: The Story of Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (New York: Crowell, 1978---$10.95)

Hollywood actress and actor biographies, a round up of recent titles

Danny Peary, ed. Close-Ups: The Movie Star Book--Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters and Friends (New York: Workman Press, 1978---$8.95 in paper with a hardback also available)     

Directors

Donald C. Willis' The Films of Frank Capra (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974---$7.50)

Mervyn LeRoy (as told to Dick Kleiner) Mervyn LeRoy: Take One (New York: Hawthorn, 1974---$10.00)

Willi Frischauer's Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger: An Unauthorized Biography (New York: Morrow, 1974---$7.95)

Raymond Durgnat's The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock. or the Plain Man's Hitchock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1974---$15.00)

Stig Bjorkman, Torsten banns, and Jonas Sima's Bergman on Bergman" Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974---$9.95)

Jean Renoir's My Life and My Films (New York: Atheneum, 1974---$10.00)

Alfred Appel's Nabokov's Dark Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)     

Film: General

Michael F, Mayer's The Film Industries (New York: Hastings House, 1978---$11.50/5.95)

Joseph M. Boggs' The Art of Watching Films: A Guide to Film Analysis (Menlo Park, Calif.: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1978---$6.95, paper)

Bernard F. Dick's Anatomy of Film (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978---$10.00)

Film periodicals: Chamba Notes (P.O. Box U, Brooklin, N.Y. 11202---$3.00 for students, $5.00 for other individuals, and $10.00 for institutions/quarterly)     

General Film Histories

Michael Wood's America in the Movies, or "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind" (New York: Basic Books, 1975---$10.00)

Adam Garbicz and Jacek Klinowski's Cinema, The Magic Vehicle: A Guide to its Achievement (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975---$18.50)

Tino Balio's United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975-- $15.00)

Charles Higham's Warner Brothers (New Y( Scribner's, 1975---$9.95)

John Douglas Eames' The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years (New York: Crown, 1975---$25.00)

Rochelle Larkin's Hail, Columbia (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975---$17.95)

Datid E. Scherman (ed.) Life Goes to the Movies (New York: Time-Life Books, 1975-- $19.95)

Paul Trent's Those Fabulous Movie Years: The 30s (New York: Crown, 1975---$14.95)

Griffith and Mayer's The Movies (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969)

Sidney Skolsky's Don't Get Me Wrong-- I Love Hollywood (New York: Putnam's, 1975---$8.95)

Leo Handel's Hollywood Looks at its Audience: A Report of Film Audience Research (originally issued by the University of Illinois Press in 1950)     

Directors and Writers

Eric Sherman's Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$15.00)

Donald Spoto's The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures (New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1976---$13.00/8.95)

Kemp R. Niver's D.W. Griffith: His Biograph Films in Perspective (Historical Films, P.O. Box 46505, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046---$12.00)

Stephen Pendo's Raymond Chandler on Screen: His Novels into Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$10.00)

Ronald Lloyd's American Film Directors: The World as They See It (New York: New Viewpoints/Franklin Watts, 1976---price not given, paper)

Maureen Lambray's The American Film Directors (New York: Whirlwind/Pathe Press, 1976---$22.50)

Bob Thomas' Walt Disney: An American Original (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976---$9.95)

Richard Koszarski's Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976---$13.95/3.95)

Philip Cecchettini and Don Whittemore's Passport to Hollywood: Film Immigramts (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976---413.50)

Beatriz Reyes Nevares' The Mexican Cinema: Interviews with Thirteen Directors (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976---$9.95/4.50)

Francisco Aranda's Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976---44.95, paper)

Glenn B. Infield's Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Film Goddess (New York: Crowell, 1976---$9.95)

Stuart Rosenthal's The Cinema of Federico Fellini (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1976---$9.95)

Edward Murray's Fellini the Artist (New York: Ungar, 1976---$10.00)     

Photography Today

Melissa Milar and William Brohaugh, eds. 1979 Photographer's Market (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 1978--- $12.95)

Harold Evans, Pictures on a Page: Photo-Journalism, Graphics and Picture Editing, (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978---$25.00)

James Danziger and Barnaby Conrad, Interviews with Master Photographers (New York and London: Paddington Press, 1978---$10.00)     

Photographic Methods

Peter Smyth's A Guide to Marine Photography (New York: Norton, 1974---$12.50)

Charles Swedlund's Photography: A Handbook of History Materials, and Processes (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974---$9.95, paper)     

Photography

Pamela Jeffcott Parry's Photography Index: A Guide to Reproductions (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979–$25.00)

Hilary Evans' The Art of Picture Research: A Guide to Current Practice, Procedure, Techniques and Resources (Newton Abbot, Y.K.; and North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1979—$28.00)

Melissa Milar, ed. 1980 Photographer's Market: Where to Sell Your Photographs (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Rooks, 1979—$12.95)

Photographis '79 (New York: Hastings House, 1979–$49.50)

John Sander's Photography Year Book 1979 (New York: Fountain Press/Hastings House, 1979—$24.95)

Harold E. Edgerton and James R. Killian, Jr.'s Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography (Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1979—$20.00)

Deborah Turbeville's Wallflower (New York: Congreve Publishing Co, 1978—$27.50)

Robert L. Kerns' Photojournalism: Photography with a Purpose (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980—$14.95)

Focalguide to Slides by Graham Saxby (New York: Focal/Hastings House, 1979- 46.95, Paper)

Focalguide to Close-Ups by Sidney F. Ray (1978--$6.95, paper)     

Media Production

Bob Westmoreland's Teleproduction Shortcuts: A Manual for Low-Budget Television Production in a Small Studio (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974—$10.95)

Joseph F. Robinson's Videotape Recording.: Theory and Practice (New York: Hastings House, 1975– $18.50)

L. Bernard Happe's Your Film & the Lab (New York: Hastings House, 1974 —$11.50/6.50)     

The World Of Music

R. Murray Schafer's The Tuning of the World (New York: Knopf, 1977—$12.95)

Garry E. Clarke's Essays on American Music (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977—$16.95)

Walter Herdeg, ed. Graphis/Record Covers (New York: Hastings House, 1974—$21.50)

Northrop Moore's A Matter of Records (New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1977—$10.95)

Thomas Busby's A Grammar of Music (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976—$25.00)

Thomas Busby's A Musical Manual or Technical Directory (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976—$17.50)     

Photographic Albums

Walter Herdeg Photographis 77: International Annual of Advertising and Editorial Photography (New York: Hastings House, 1977—$37.50)

Louis Stettner's Weegee (New York: Knopf, 1977—$15.00)

Shadow of Light: Photographs by Bill Brandt (New York: Da Capo Press, 1977—$14.50, paper)

Helmut Newton's White Women (New York: Stonehill, 1976—$25.00)

Roswell Angier's “...A Kind of Life,” Conversations in the Combat Zone (Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1976—$15.00)

Yvonne Kalmus, Rikki Ripp and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, eds. Women See Men (New York: McGraw- Hill, 1977.412.95/7.95)

Lew Thomas and Donna-Lee Phillips' Photography and Language (San Francisco: Camerawork Press, 1976—$6.95, paper)

Linda McCartney's Linda's Pictures: A Collection of Photographs (new York: Knopf, 1976-425.00, with a paperback edition now also available)