Charles Davy Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Tan cloth, red quarter leather binding, gilt lettering on spine; gilt design on front cover. Used, good condition: insides clean, corners slightly rounded, gilt lettering on cover and spine sharp, top and bottom of spine slightly worn, binding firm, but 1st 25 pages have been bent at corner. Former owner's sticker under dust jacket flap on front endpaper. Dust jacket good condition, one inch chip at bottom of spine, one inch tear at top of spine, other wear along edges. Has selected chapters from 16 individuals who visited Norway and wrote at least one book about their travels. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 50 pages. Illustrated. Jean Cocteau "Talent, Genius And Inspiration" / Feodor Chaliapin "Life Behind Aer: A Romantic In The Making" / Kirk Bond "Film As Literature" / Oswell Blakeston "Books, Movies And The Hyphen" / Norman Marshall "Music In The Talkies" / Oliver Baldwin "The Fatuity Of British Films" / Philip Lindsay "Filming England's History" / Charles Davy "Films Of The Month: 'Don Quixote' and 'Employees' Entrance" / Clifford Bower-Shore "Jean Cocteau".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 50 pages. Illustrated. Hartley Withers "Machinery And Labour: Through Leisure to Employment" / Alan M Wells "European Politics In The Succession States" / Charles Davy "Rudolf Steiner And Anthroposophy" / Francis Watson "A Portrait Of The Artist In Maturity" / Geoffrey Grigson "Henry Moore And Ben Nicholson" / Aubrey Menon "In Search Of The Perfect Actor" / C Henry Warren "A Talk On Talks (Broadcasting)" / Charles Davy Films - "'I Was A Spy' and 'Bitter Sweet'" / Edward Crankshaw "Sibelius's Seventh: And The London String Quartet".…

Printed Boards/Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. In 1938 seventy per cent of the population in the USA, and forty per cent in Britain went to the cinema each week. This survey of the industry covers how films were made, associated diciplines, writers, musians and artists, film industry problems and the film going public. 334 pages with black and white plates. Size: 200x140mm.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 396 pages. Illustrated. Philip Henderson "London: A Study In Perspective The City seen by the Poets" / W Francis Aitken "The Pageant Of London London Characters in English fiction" / E Beresford Chancellor "Londinium Triumphans" / Francis Warson "John Locke: The Common-Sense Philosopher" / L Aas "Bjornstjerne Bjornson" / Muriel Kent "Kenneth Grahame: A Modern Magcian" / Winifred Holtby "Novels Of Thge Year 1932" / R S Forman "First Novels Of The Year 1932" / Edgar Holt "Translations Of The Year 1932" / Graham Sutton "Plays Of The Year 1932" / Charles Davy "Films Of The Year 1932" / Alfred Tresidder Sheppard "Historical Works Of The Year 1932" / Geoffrey Grigson "Poetry Of 1932" / Collin Brooks "Political Biography Of The Year 1932 / Frank Rutter "Art Books Of Thew Year 1932" / Hermon Ould "English Music Of The Year 1932" / Gilbert Armitage "Criticism Of The Year 1932" / Rev. R Birch Hoyle "Religious Books Of The Year 1932" (SL#273).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart copy of this detailed study of film and how a film is made, from the Reader's Union. Reader's Union edition, not for public sale. This edition was distributed only to members of the Reader's Union. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen plates, and two in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed study of films and filmmaking, with chapters on how a film is made, screen material, studio work, film industry problems, and films and the public. With chapters and commentaries from various film and television executives, including Alfred Hitchcock, Basil Wright, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Sidney L. Bernstein, Alistair Cooke, and Forsyth Hardy, amongst others. Edited by Charles Davy. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the foredge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…