Theatre / Acting / Cinema / Plays from Goldring Books

London: Chatto and Windus, 1978. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which id not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 339 pages and 20 illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. The second volume of the actor's biography in which his story continues from the trial of army training camp at Catterick to the greatest challenge of his film career, the… Read more about this item

London: Max Reinhardt, 1958. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small loss to front and is not price clipped. 244 pages. First UK edition. The author was a distinguished drama critic of the New York Herald Tribune and in this book gathers together the best of his writing during the last two years, covering many… Read more about this item

Milan: Mediane Libri, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy. 147 pages. + 16 track CD. Definitely one of the best known Italian directors. Dario Argento's groundbreaking production has become a cornerstone redefinition of the horror-thriller genre through his personal and original style. This book is a tribute to his astounding career. It contains dazzling rare on-set pictures, original movie… Read more about this item

London: Jupiter, 1977. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. A large format volume of 176 pages. 118 illustrations. The films of H.G. Wells have kept audiences spellbound, from Charles Pathe's first production of The Invisible Man, retitled The Invisible Thief, in 1909, to the latest all… Read more about this item

London: Blake, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustacket which is not price clipped. xix + 377 pages. 20 illustrations. Johnny Depp is Hollywood's best-loved rebel. In a career spanning two decades he has endeared himself to audiences as diverse as the roles he has played - adults, teenage girls, movie buffs and geeks alike have… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, 1972. Card cover have a little marking to rear and some foxing to closed fore edge. 235 stills illustrations with answers to the quiz questions. A great book for film buffs. 51. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a repair to spine head. Internally there is a small Foyles bookshop label to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. 217 pages. 385 photographs many of which have never been published before. Carnegie Hall was built in 1891 by the philanthropist Andrew… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1983. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a small corner crease to lower back cover. 216 pages. Photo illustrations. The unparalleled story of the love between Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli, and the terrible obstacles it had to over come. … Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. A large format book of 210 pages. over 200 photographs. For seven decades with a dozen different partners, on the stage, on the screen, on television, Fred Astaire was the heart and soul of dance. He was perfection. He was lass.… Read more about this item

London: Museum of the Moving Image, 1993. A very Good unmarked copy. 184 pages. A varied and valuable collection of interviews about going to the pictures and working in cinemas during the boom years of film exhibition. It concentrates on reminiscences of the cinemas of Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark and adjacent areas providing vivid recollections of super cinemas like the… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Filipacchi, 2003. Petite indentation à l'avant. Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, Brigitte Bardot, Marion Brando, Jack Nicholson, mais aussi Picasso, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean-Paul Goude ou Monica Bellucci, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn... Pilier de Paris Match durant vingt ans, Willy Rizzo a photographié les stars et les mannequins du monde entier, mais aussi le procès de… Read more about this item

London: Paul Elek, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with gold title on red cloth boards with dustjacket which has fading and is not price clipped. No one among her subjects enjoyed going to the theatre more than Queen Victoria, it was one of her greatest pleasures and she was one of its greatest patrons. From the age of 12… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 253 pages. 12 colour plates and 112 black and white illustrations. In this book Sir John Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre, of the plays he starred in, and directed, of the actors and actresses he worked with - from… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xvii + 510 pages. 51 illustrations. In a career spanning almost eighty years on stage, screen, radio and television, he effectively reinvented Shakespeare for the modern stage; he was the first great Hamlet of our time; wih his… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 420 pages. Photo illustrations throughout. INCLUDED also is a magazine article featuring extracts from the then to be released book. Katharine Hepburn, a star for nearly 60 years, has always kept her private life private. Now, at the age of 84, she breaks her silence… Read more about this item

London: Bantam, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 31 pages. 56 illustrations. Complete filmography. The legendary actress's frank autobiography in which she tells the truth about the three men she loved and married: Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw, the Hollywood she knew in the 1940's, her upbringing in North carolina… Read more about this item

London: Virago, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 303 pages. In January 2000 the actress collapsed with what was eventually diagnosed as a burst middle cerebral artery aneurysm. She was one of the lucky ones, as many do not survive, let alone live intelligently and well again, once they have suffered cerebral… Read more about this item

London: Doubleday, 2000. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine part from age toning to closed edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 294 pages. 39 illustrations. Tom Courtenay was born in Hull in 1937 and brought up near the fish dock where his father worked. When he left home for university, his mother, Annie, wrote to… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph's definitive biography of the actor, Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999), is a searching study of a complex and fascinating figure, based on his own eight year acquaintance and papers made available to him by… Read more about this item

London: Fourth Estate, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 502 pages. 48 illustrations. After the death of his mother in childbirth, Eric Sykes was farmed out and left under the tender eye of a parrot that lived above his cot. Two years later, his father came to collect him. 'Neither he nor… Read more about this item