Edited by John Robert Colombo (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** no marks on text - DJ shows shelf wear inside a mylar sleeve - inside flap corner price cut from DJ - my shelf location 25-E-33*.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stapled booklet, with light brown card covers. This copy is quite attractive and clean inside - top edge of spine on the outside shows separation/splitting of the card material for about 0.5 cm and bottom edge of front card shows light wear. Chap-Book#189 (print run of 500 copies). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers. SYNOPSIS: A book for anyone who enjoys movies and appreciates "quotable quotes," Colombo's Hollywood presents some 3000 glittering and hilarious remarks made through the years by some of our most glamorous and gutsy movie personalities. The cast includes the film world's leading figures: superstars, actors and actresses, supporting players, producers, directors - even reviewers and critics. You'll find them all here: Bogart and Brando; Davis, Crawford and Bergman; Clift and the Fondas; Newman and Redford; Monroe, Mae West and the Gabors - even the silents speak. With a minimum of direction from the editor, they speak their minds about their art and craft; about life, love, sex and marriage about money, fame, looks and growing old; about their hopes and fears. Their words reveal the popcorn and paradise inseparable from life in Hollywood and the whole world of filmmaking. They also contain the trivia and treasure, the illusions and ideals, the aspirin and aspirations that make up - in one way or another - all our lives and suggest that the moviemakers are human just like the rest of us. With original illustrations by Graham Pilsworth throughout, special added attractions are two chapters devoted to the magnificent malapropisms of Sam Goldwyn and to favorite movie moments from 1916 to 1979. Lights! Camera! . . . John Robert Colombo is known nationally as a "master gatherer." His many popular anthologies and collections include Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974), Colombo's Canadian References (1976) and Colombo's Book of Canada (1978). He has also compiled Canada's first handbook of nicknames and sobriquets, Colombo's Names and Nicknames (1978), and its first anthology of science fiction and fantasy, Other Canadas (1979). A recent work, Mostly Monsters (1977), poems "found" in film scenarios and horror books, prompted Ray Bradbury to comment: "We are twins." Colombo was born in Kitchener, Ontario, the son of an industrial motion-picture producer. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he has written a column on film for The Canadian Forum. He attended the Stratford International Film Festival as an adjudicator and, as a journalist, the Ottawa Films on Art Festival. He has never seen Hollywood-except on the screen. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Graham Pilsworth (illustrator). …

Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket is worn (photo). Libro.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Separate 1st Printing. Education Edition. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. CONTENTS: Preface; Voyage to New France - Cyrano de Bergerac; Mount Hatteras - Jules Verne; The Finding of the Copper Cylinder - James De Mille; The Child of the Phalanstery - Grant Allen; The Fear of It - Robert Barr; The Wendigo - Algernon Blackwood; Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove; A Fragment from Utopia - Stephen Leacock; Black Destroyer - A. E. Van Vogt; Good-bye, Ilha! - Laurence Manning; Of the People - Gordon R. Dickson; After the Sirens - Hugh Hood; A Queen in Thebes - Margaret Laurence; Akua Nuten - Yves Theriault; Mr. Blink - Michel Tremblay; The Archangel of the Suburb - Jacques Ferron; The Military Hospital - Phyllis Gotlieb; Sparklebugs, Holly and Love - Michael G. Coney; Infinite Variation - H. A. Hargreaves; New Renewal - Spider Robinson; The Philosopher's Stone - Stephen Scobie; The Walker of the Snow - Charles Dawson Shanly; The City of the End of Things - Archibald Lampman; The Were-Wolves - Wilfred Campbell; Shamballah - Bliss Carman; Three Poems - James Reaney; Windigo - George Bowering; Three Poems - Gwendolyn MacEwen; Three Poems - Jeni Couzyn; Four Poems - Alden Nowlan; Mostly Monsters - John Robert Colombo; In the Land of the Unblind - Judith Merril; Three Poems - Phyllis Gotlieb; Moonwalks - Douglas Barbour; The Dominion in 1983 - Ralph Centennius; Universe - Stanley Jackson and Roman Kroitor; Canadian Science Fiction - David Ketterer; Canadian Monsters - Margaret Atwood; Brief Annotated Bibliography; Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: Other Canadas is the first anthology of Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It was edited by John Robert Colombo, who combined his encyclopedic knowledge of things Canadian with his long-time love of the literature of the fantastic to produce a book that is at once entertaining to read and an intriguing, speculative look at Canada - its alternate pasts, parallel presents, and possible futures. Included in Other Canadas are: a preface by the editor (who discusses the four characteristics of Canadian SF&F); excerpts from four novels; 17 short stories; 27 poems by 13 poets; two critical articles; one prophetic essay (written in 1883, about the Dominion in 1983); a film script (the National Film Board's Universe); and a brief annotated bibliography. Such native-born writers as Phyllis Gotlieb and Margaret Atwood are represented, as well as Canadian-born writers living in the United States, like A.E. van Vogt and Gordon R. Dickson. New Canadians, like Judith Merril and Spider Robinson, are included; and even non-Canadians, Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, with excerpts from imaginative works set in New France and the Arctic. Other Canadas is a pioneering anthology and an important one, for it reveals a new and unexpected dimension of the Canadian imagination. Yes, there is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy, and here is your guide to it. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …