Hepworth cecil (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Full title: CAME THE DAWN - Memories of a Film Pioneer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this book is technically very well illustrated with both drawings by the author and 26 b/w plates (mainly screen shots). See images. Condition (external): mauve cloth boards which blend into grey at the edges and along the spine. Slightly bent corners and some edgewear. Condition (internal): generally mild tanning - only really obvious discolouration on the front and rear endpapers. The ffep also has an ink signature - possibly dated 1955. See relevant images. pp. 207. 8vo (crown octavo - just under). Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping & postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2630. (This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors). Cecil M. Hepworth (ilustrador).…

First Edition. Articles on film history and technique, archiving etc. Softcovers, 96pp plus stills etc. Dusty covers and slightly creased at edges otherwise VG c.

First Edition. Articles on 'The German films of Fritz Lang' etc. Softcovers, 128pp plus stills etc. Near Fine copy.

The 43 stills are approximately 25.5cm by 20cm and were probably produced for promotional or press purposes, looking at one time to have been bound together, with residual signs of this to the left edge of each as well as a few missing corners. Two of the stills are inscribed to the reverse by the film's director and one of the most important figures of the early British film industry, Cecil Hepworth. In the inscriptions he notes the actors who feature in the image and signs his name below. The stills are all quite uniformly curled at their edges and slightly toned and marked, but in general the images remain sharp. The photographs are approximately 15cm by 10cm, all are a little toned and rubbed with curling at their edges, a few are lightly marked. These are sepia-toned, with some silvering or mirroring to be seen on the surface of a few. Hepworth's film was a successful adaptation of the famous First World War fantasy novel of the same name by W. A. Darlington, starring Leslie Henson and Alma Taylor, and these stills were the property of the Darlington family. It is thought that only the final reel of the film remains in existence, so these stills and the smaller photos constitute an important surviving record of portions of the adaptation which have been lost.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1951 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 244 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 244.…