[Rarebooks] [b] fs: 3 early Movie books

[David Klappholz]

At 11:38 AM 12/7/2005, Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA wrote:

>All 3 books- $100 net, ppd.
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>Gale, Arthur L.  "HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE" New York; Brick Row Book Shop:

As you probably know, Brick Row Book Shop was one of the most 
prominent antiquarian/rare bookstores in the 1920's and 1930's, and 
E. Byrne Hackett, it's proprietor, a very prominent bookseller. There 
were Brick Rows in NYC, Cambridge, and New Haven, I believe; at the 
end of Hackett's time, the name, and likely the stock, was bought and 
a Brick Row was opened in Texas (Austin?); it was sold again, and now 
Brick Row is a very prominent high-end bookstore in SF.

Regards
Dave

PS A. Edward Newton was, naturally, a good friend of Hackett's and a 
patron of the various Brick Rows of his day; I have a copy of 
Newton's Amenities inscribed to the Cambridge Brick Row in 1919 -- my 
only AEN inscription to a store, rather than to a person.

>1936. "A handbook on movie planning, continuity and scenario writing,
>silent and sound, for amateur and non-theatrical movie
>makers".  Softcover.  5.5"x8.25", 199 pages, covers a bit soiled, but a
>nice copy.
>
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>Sherwood, Robert E.  "THE BEST MOVING PICTURES OF 1922-1923.  ALSO WHO'S
>WHO IN THE MOVIES AND YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SCREEN"  Boston; Small,
>Maynard & Company: 1923.  "My experience in following miles of film across
>the screen has bred in me a deep respect for the movies, and an abiding
>faith in their possibilities... The movies belong to the masses and not to
>the few.  For which reason, the short-sighted intelligensia believe that
>the cinema is vulgar, and vulgar in the worst sense.  According to their
>shaky logic the Ninth Symphony is a marvelous composition until it is
>recorded on the phonograph.  Unfortunately, this silly idea has become an
>obsession with the movie producers themselves.  Realizing that they are
>enslaved by an enormous public, they feel that they must climb down to the
>lowest level that this public represents... A novel may be sold to no more
>than ten thousand people and still be considered successful.  But a motion
>picture must reach an audience that runs up into the hundreds of millions
>if it is to cover the staggering expenses of production.  The producers,
>naturally enough, are awed by these impressive figures, and frightened by
>them.  Their efficiency experts tell them that sixty percent of their
>patrons are morons, that they can't grasp anything that is over the heads
>of a fourteen year old child.  So the producers set up this mythical
>fourteen-year old mentality as their god, and do obeisance at its
>shrine".  Hardcover.  5.5"x7.5", 346 pages, b/w plates, including a
>frontispiece showing Douglas Fairbanks in "Robin Hood".  Light wear, but a
>nice copy.
>
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>Farber, Stephen.  "THE MOVIE RATING GAME"  Washington; Public Affairs
>Press: 1972.  This "hard-hitting book tears apart the cloak of secrecy
>behind which the Code and Rating Administration of the Motion Picture
>Association has operated since 1968".  It also provides a history of the
>development of the ratings system and movie censorship in
>America.  Hardcover.  6.25"x9", 128 pages, dj; a fine copy in a stained and
>soiled jacket.
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>All 3 books- $100 net, ppd.
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