Moving Image by Gessner Robert (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: used good. 68-172872026surface wear to jacketname inside2026stamp inside.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning and writing on the front endpapers. Good DJ has chips/tears and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Larry Ratzkin (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 444 pp. Stated first edition! Solidly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Smooth covers. Mildly shelf worn. Dust jacket suffers moderate to extensive wear, with a few minor cuts and tears around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (Ref. BB4) Near Fine hardback in Near Fine DJ.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Covers lightly soiled; short crease in each wrapper.

London; Cassell, 1968. 24x16 cm. 444 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's orange-coloured cloth, no dustjacket. Spine ends and lower rear corner are slightly bumped and the binding is a bit faded. Contents are fine. Name on front paste-down ("Joel": Joel Ohlsson, 1934-2011, Swedish film and literary historian).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-property of Cartrefle College Wrexham, some small stamps on copyright page and fore edge, tippexed remarks on FFEP. No other inscriptions or makings. DJ is not price clipped (63/-), ink mark on lower spine, otherwise near fine; now protected in clear non-adhesive archival quality cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in red, cover blind-stamped. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Book is fine, dust jacket has minor wear to extremities and spine. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 444 pages.

Hardcover. Large 8vo. pp 444. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered red on spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper to Desmond Flower, publisher, book-collector and scholar, 'For Desmond Flower, with the esteem of the author and deepest gratitude for the initial confidence in this book, yours ever, Bob Gessner, May 26th 1968 New York'. Slight fading at the top edge, otherwise clean, very good in very good minus dust jacket, with slight edgewear and damp mottling. Now in clear, protective acetate wrapper.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. GESSNER, Robert. THE MOVING IMAGE: A GUIDE TO CINEMATIC LITERACY. NY: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1968. Small 4to., black cloth in dust jacket; 444 pages. First Edition. Signed presentation from Gessner on the front endpaper: "For Harriet van Horne, With the esteem of the author, Robert Gessner. June 3, 1968." Van Horne [1920-1998] was an American newspaper columnist and a film/television critic. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); very minor wear d/j. Signed.