Asc Treasury Visual Effects, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1983 Book: Fine/, (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book: Fine/, $56.81 093557803X the ASC TREASURY of VISUAL EFFECTS. By Leading Masters of Film Wizardry. * DUNN, Linwood G.; TURNER, George E.; ABBOTT; CRUICKSHANK; Van der VEER; ANDERSON; WELLMAN; WESTHEIMER. American Society of Cinematographers; A S C Holding Corp Hollywood, CA * * * * * 1983 1sT Edition, 1sT Printing Tall Wide Thick & Heavy D/j + H/c * Sun Bleached To Pink/Red Colored Spine With Title In Black And 0ff~White Letters, Dust Jacket: Good/, Shelf, EDGE, And Corner Wear. Front Interior Flap, $29.95. Hard Cover Book: Fine/, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 295 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine/ Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Spine Is Tight. * This Is An Original Edition, Not A Modern RePrint. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = * * Corrugated Mailing Box. * * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The * * Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. * = No Odors, No Writing, No Other Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1983 Book: Fine/, (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book: Fine/, $56.81 093557803X the ASC TREASURY of VISUAL EFFECTS. By Leading Masters of Film Wizardry. * DUNN, Linwood G.; TURNER, George E.; ABBOTT; CRUICKSHANK; Van der VEER; ANDERSON; WELLMAN; WESTHEIMER. American Society of Cinematographers; A S C Holding Corp Hollywood, CA * * * * * 1983 1sT Edition, 1sT Printing Tall Wide Thick & Heavy D/j + H/c * Sun Bleached To Tan Colored Spine With Title In Black And Faint 0ff~White Letters, Dust Jacket: Good/, Shelf, EDGE, And Corner Wear. D/j Slipped Up And Is Quite Torn And Tattered On Top Edge. Front Interior Flap, $29.95. Hard Cover Book: Fine/, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 295 Numbered Pages Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine/ Condition, Clean And Tight To The Spine, Slightest Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Spine Is Tight. * This Is An Original Edition, Not A Modern RePrint. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = * * Corrugated Mailing Box. * * To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The * * Description Described Which Applies To This B00K, Only. * = No Odors, No Writing, No Other Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, Not X~Library, No Other Marks. = Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with heavy fading to red background along spine. No jacket chips and not price-clipped. Jacket has some short tears and rubbing. Slight bumps to corners. No markings or bookplate. Unlike the recent paperback reprint, this original edition has crisp, sharp b/w photos and drawings along with a section of color plates. The paperback reprint apparently was generated by scanning an original copy of the book, and to be polite, looks positively awful. This is the version of the book as the writer and editor meant to be seen and studied.

Stated 1st Printing. With contributions by masters of film wizardry explres the history and techniques of special effects. Nice bright clean crisp copy of HB 1st printing. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4, 297 pp + index, b/w & color photos & illus. Fine unmarked; in VG+ bright unclipped jacket. Hardcover in brick cloth boards w gilt titling; in red illus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Full cloth. Signed, inscribed by the editor, Turner, on the front free endpaper. He has included a very nice ink drawing of King Kong smoking a pipe to his inscription. The person to whom it is inscribed has glued his bookplate to the same page. Bumped corners and spine ends. All else is quite clean and tight. The dust jacket has some light wear to the corners and spine ends. Minor soiling. Not price clipped. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 297 pages; Signed by Author.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. A special copy signed twice by Linwood Dunn, the noted Oscar-winning special effects expert from early Hollywood who helped create the original King Kong, and provided special effects for Citizen Kane and other classic films. He has signed and inscribed the endpage and also signed the page with a photo of himself posed by his invention, the optical printer. A nice clean copy. Covers have a few little spots. Jacket with general wear and fading to spine. Oversized, so may need additional shipping. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NOTE: Oversize, will require additional charges for international shipping, please inquire prior to ordering. 4to. 297 pages, unnumbered index. Dull red cloth covered boards with gilt spine and front titles; signed and inscribed by Linwood Dunn in blue ink to front free endpaper to Elmo Williams, Oscar-winning director ("1987 To Elmo -- With much appreciation for your great accomplishments -- and grand memories of the many years we have known each other. My very best wishes, always, to you, Lorraine, and family. Lin"); laid in are a 9-page photocopied article from American Cinematographer Dec. 1985 about Linwood Dunn, and photocopies of 2 personal letters from Dunn to Elmo and Lorraine Williams; multiple black & white and some color photographs throughout; red dust jacket with black & white photos, not price-clipped. Minimal wear to boards; some sunning to spine of jacket, light wear to extremities, with mild rubbing. A near fine copy in a very good to very good plus jacket. Unique example of this overview of the creation of visual effects for Hollywood films, enhanced by association inscriptions and laid-in material. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Linwood G. Dunn and George Turner to noted film historian Robert S. Birchard. Additionally, Turner has drawn a picture of King Kong with is inscription. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some minor handling. Linwood G. Dunn (1904-1998) was a major pioneer in the area of visual effects and had a long career working on such classics as King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Thing From Another World, Bringing Up Baby, Cat People, Out of the Past, Mighty Joe Young, Shock Corridor, the original Star Trek series, etc. Oversize pictorial format, 297 pages plus index. A history of visual effects in film from the 1895 Edison production of The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the more contemporary techniques of such films as Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc. Filled with color and black & white photographs as well as drawings and diagrams.