Christopher Wicking (18 results)

Condition: Good. First edition. Good condition paperback with minimal wear. Contents are clean and bright throughout with no markings.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 40pp.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 30pp.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 28pp.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 30pp.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 30pp.

Paperback. Condition: near fine semi prozine. 1st edition, a TV and media related magazine of 35pp.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by (cover design) Barbara Cohen (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. [modest edgewear to covers, light soiling to bottom edge, slight bending at lower corners of last few pages and very slight curling in rear cover]. Trade PB A groundbreaking work in TV history, thsi was the "first comprehensive work to consider films that have been made especially for the small screen, either as TV movies or as series segments." Quite blatantly modeled after Andrew Sarris's "The American Cinema," it places the 280 directors discussed into categories based on "their importance, their fame, and their achievement." The upper echelon -- equivalent to Sarris's "Pantheon" -- is dubbed "Kings of the Stardust Ballroom," and the lesser categories include "I Also Do the Catering" and "How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?". (My favorite is "Elephants' Graveyard," which focuses on the television work of once-prominent feature film directors such as Jack Arnold, John Brahm, Stuart Heisler, Tay Garnett, Jacques Tourneur, etc.) It may be hard to comprehend in the age of ImDB and Wikipedia, but back in the 1970s it was next to impossible to even nail down basic credits for individual TV directors, and in that respect alone this is probably a book that launched hundreds of "subjects for further research.".

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

8vo. pp xxii, 262. Illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Signed presentation from Christopher Wicking on the front endpaper, 'Phil (Hardy), between blood and nutu lies a wonderful future, Chris.' ISBN: 0905983092 Very good.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0905983092.

Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1970 UK film. In Elizabethan England, a coven of witches is massacred by evil Lord Whitman (Price), but the coven's leader invokes a magical servant, a "banshee," for revenge. A prime vessel for Vincent Price, who basically carries the film. Shot on location in Middlesex, England. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall, else Near Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. 4to. pp . Paperback. Quarterly T.V. magazine. First issue. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered black. Illustrated in b/w throughout. Contributors include:Paul Kerr, Tise Vahimagi, Dick Fiddy, Vincent Porter, Ian MacDonald. About fine.

Script Format, reprint. Condition: As New. 1984 REV DRAFT/ THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS/.

Final Draft script for the 1970 British horror film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his initials in rub-on transfer letters on the bottom of the front wrapper, and his name written on the top of revision page 31. With manuscript pencil annotations thoughout, and clippings of scene directions and props (often noting Provis' supplied props) affixed to the versos of the opposing page or laid in, throughout. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Vincent Price stars as Lord Whitman, who is waging an unending war on witchcraft, and massacres a coven, whose surviving member, Oona, played by Elisabeth Bergner, calls upon a banshee to destroy the lord's family. Shot on location in Middlesex, England. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, dated September/October 1969, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated blue and pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two flat metal brads.

Final Draft script for the 1985 musical film. Single manuscript ink annotation to the title page. Based on the 1959 novel. A rock musical set in London during the late 1950s, following two former lovers on their parallel paths to fame. David Bowie, an acquaintance of director Julien Temple, agreed to write a single for the film if he could also play the part of flashy ad executive Vendice Partners, resulting in the hit single "Absolute Beginners." Goldenrod untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 9th May 1985, noted as Final Draft, with credits for director Julien Temple, screenwriters Richard Burridge, Christopher Wicking, and Don Macpherson, and additional dialogue credits to Terry Johnson. 124 leaves, with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Vintage photograph of Gordon Hessler shooting on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe with identifying manuscript annotations in pencil. Based loosely on the Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 story of the same name. Madeline is an actress in a theater troupe in Paris at the turn of the century that is performing Poe's "Murders In The Rue Morgue." Her mother was murdered bye an ax-man some years ago, and all of a sudden Madeline begins to dream of the same horrible killer. Soon after these dreams a former lover of Madeline's mother, long thought to be dead after an accident on stage, comes back to murder members of the troupe. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 film, two showing actress Nastassja Kinski and one showing her with actor Christopher Lee. Based on the 1953 novel by Dennis Wheatley, about an American occult researcher's attempts to save a teenage girl being targeted by a Satanic cult led by a fallen Catholic priest. Hammer Films' final feature before the studio was revived in the 21st century. Shot on location in Bavaria and London. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Johnson and Del Vecchio, p. 376.