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Some hardback, some softback - postage rates negotiable – bear in mind that many of these, especially the hardbacks, may be fairly heavy.
A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION FILMS David Shipman £6.50
CULT MOVIES 3 Danny Peary (intelligent criticism on a range of films) £8
DIRECTORS – THE ALL-TIME GREATS Neil Sinyard (classical as well as new, world cinema as well as Hollywood) £6
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HORROR Richard Davis (foreword by Peter Cushing – cover unusual areas such as Goya, Dali, Voodoo, LaVey etc as well as the usual films and so on) £7
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MONSTERS Jeff Rovin (exhaustive guide to monsters in film, TV, comics, literature, mythology) £7.50
ESSENTIAL DRACULA Clare Haworth-Maden (detailed study taking in literature, myth and comics as well as films) £5.50
ESSENTIAL FRANKENSTEIN Robert Jameson (ditto) £5.50
FACTS ABOUT A FEATURE FILM Marjorie Bilbow (odd – a book aimed at teens about an X-cert film that still stands as a useful introductory guide explaining how films actually come into being. Rare and collectable – copies go for over 100 bucks on Amazon) £25
GREAT BOOK OF MOVIE VILLAINS Jan Stacy and Ryder Syversten (some creasing on back cover) £4
HOLLYWOOD – 50 GREAT YEARS various (mammoth book detailing US films 1930-1980) £12
HORROR FILMS Alan Frank (mainstay of 89s / 90s genre writing) £7
HORROR FILMS Nigel Andrews (yes, the film critic for the FT – erudite and thoughtful) £8
HORRORS – A HISTORY OF HORROR MOVIES Tom Hutchinson / Roy Pickard (spine tear down inside front cover) £5.50
HORRORSHOWS Gene Wright (well organized reference volume) £8.50
MAD DOCTORS, MONSTERS AND MUMMIES! Dennis Gifford (reproductions of lobby cards from Gifford’s collection with a little info about each film – a nice coffee table book) £7
MODERN HORROR FILM John McCarthy (the prolific McCarthy details some keystone genre films from ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ to ‘Lair of the White Worm’) £8
MONSTER AND HORROR MOVIES Thomas Aylesworth £7
MOVIE TREASURY – HORROR MOVIES Alan Frank (ol’ Frankie’s at it again) £6.50
PANDAEMONIUM 2 (early effort by esteemed film-scholar-of-the-bizarre Jack Stevenson, rare and collectable) £28
PRISONER, THE Alain Carraze / Helen Oswald (beautiful and exhaustive guide to the classic 60s TV series) £11.50
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL AT THE MOVIES (from Bill Haley onwards) £6
SHOCKING CINEMA Phil Edwards (magazine-format book about genre cinema in Australia detailing sleaze, porn, gore, censorship – a fascinating look at Aussie cult cinema – 3 central pages loose but present – pretty good condition otherwise) £10
SHOWGIRLS – PORTRAIT OF A FILM (four famous photographers interpret the film, with text by Verhoeven – lots of visuals, lots of naked flesh. The film may be crap, but this is a lavish book – and it can be read with one hand) £7
STARBURST – CLASSICS OF THE HORROR FILM (book edition of the UK mag concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on 30s-60s) £4.50
STEPHEN KING AT THE MOVIES Jesse Horsting (some cover wear and spine damage, but still a sought-after item, the first of its kind) £8
THINGS, ITS AND ALIENS! Dennis Gifford (reproductions of lobby cards from Gifford’s collection with a little info about each film – a nice coffee table book) £7
VAMPIRE CINEMA David Pirie (seminal and much-sought-after tome) £30

- The following 7 books are devoted to Hollywood stars of the golden era – some of whom have long since been forgotten, some of whom are now undying legends - and date from the same time. This was before Hollywood Babylon, before the National Enquirer, before paparazzi, from a time when stars were still pure and godlike. The books are somewhat damaged due to their ages (see below) but still, for the most part, in acceptable condition – and they are remarkably evocative objects. £3.25 each or all 7 for £21 – prices exclude postage.
FILM SHOW ANNUAL 1958 (some spine damage but good condition for age)
PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL 1950 (ring stains on front cover and edges a little battered, otherwise pretty good condition)
FILM PARADE 1948 (covers somewhat ageworn, otherwise pretty good condition)
PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL 1943 (cover creased, scratched and largely detached from book, tape on inside front cover, some minor ink on some pages)
PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL 1942 (cloth spine almost entirely detached from spine, and a past owner has written ‘D’ next to each star who had died at the time…)
PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL 1935 (one side of cloth spine almost detached from spine, covers somewhat timeworn, and more bloody ‘D’s on some pages, one page loose)
MEET THE FILM STARS 1934/1935 (damage to spine, covers rubbed, otherwise in remarkably good condition – and no ‘D’s!)

Other formats (sizes - and postage costs - will vary)
AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY Tino Balio (regarded as the authoritative text on the subject) £15
BOGIE Joe Hyams (autobiography of Humphrey B, in slightly worn condition) £2.75
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART Amos Vogel (landmark text on avant-garde cinema – ultra-rare, but dustjacket a bit torn) £60
GREAT HORROR MOVIES Favius Friedman (film-by-film analysis of various movies from the 30s to the 60s) £3.50
HAUNT OF FEARS Martin Barker (erudite, well-written study of the late-50s morality campaign against EC Comics in the UK, foreshadowing the video nasty debacle 25 years later) £7.50
JOE BOB GOES TO THE DRIVE IN Joe Bob Briggs (hilarious collection of the fictitious redneck critic’s writing – like Chas Balun but funnier) £6.50
MOVIE MONSTERS Denis Gifford (an early one from Gifford, dating back to 1969) £9
NIGHTMARE MOVIES Kim Newman (excellent study of post-Romero genre film – slightly worn) £10
PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE – THE UNCENSORED SCREENPLAY Ed Wood (first authorized edition, with illustrations) £11
SPIKE, MIKE, SLACKERS AND DYKES John Pierson (study of US indie cinema, which, interestingly, also concentrates on the business side) £8
THE DEAD THAT WALK Leslie Halliwell (highbrow examination of classic monster movies) £6
TIME BANDITS Terry Gilliam / Michael Palin (lavishly illustrated version of the original script of Gilliam’s wonderful film) £6.50

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