Hogarth Press, 2017. Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The beloved author of The Handmaid's Tale reimagines Shakespeare's final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. "A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking.....
Vintage, 2011. Paperback. Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices. --The NationBaldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and.....
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005-2006. DVD, 4 box-sets. Six discs, 4 box sets, first 35 episodes + additional special featurettes which aired on NBC 1981-1982, over 1700 minutes of classic television entertainment. Hill Street Blues was a police procedural series developed that aired on prime-time television from 1981 to.....
Turner Entertainment Co. & Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., 2003. DVD. A set of 5 classic films on DVD starring the inimitable Humphrey Bogart. The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Bogart defines the role of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic detective Sam Spade in John Huston’s directorial debut co-starring Sydney Greenstreet (also his debut).....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 10-3/4", 1/2 orange cloth, bright pictorial paper over boards, unpaginated, 72pp, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout, 9 pages in color. Scribner's "A" on copyright page.The three Perkins children Peter, Pam and Piper join their father Flap Foot the Clown, their.....
Crown Archetype, 2019. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the strength to face the impossible.....
PBS Home Video, 1994. DVD. 10 DVD set of Ken Burns Emmy Award winning chronicle of America's national pastime, narrated by John Chancellor and Keith David and penned by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward, David McMahon, and Lynn Novick, which originally aired on PBS in 1994. This set includes a......
Burbank: PBS, 2001. PBS DBD Gold. DVD. 1 disc, 153 minutes. “Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest of all American architects. He was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything anew. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed.....
Warner Home Video, 2004. DVD. 6 films in 4 DVDs, nearly 9 hours of classic entertainment. "Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan. He Tarzan, she Jane - the most memorable pair ever to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero and heroine. All 6 of the stars' vine-swinging tearmings are in this 4-disc.....
Turner Entertainment, 2005. DVDs - 3 Volume Set. 3 feature films starring James Cagney. 3 discs, nearly 5 hours of classic film entertainment with bonus shorts. Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies as a bonus feature on each film. Each film also includes commentary by film historians and new.....
Athena / Acorn Media, 2010. DVD. DVD of complete set of 6 episodes which originally aired on PBS in 1988. These stimulating conversations between inspirational scholar Joseph Campbell and veteran journalist Bill Moyers created a national sensation when they first aired on public television. In lively, expansive dialogues, the two.....
Warner Home Video, 2003. DVD, 4 movies, 4 boxsets, 8 discs. The Chaplin Collection – 4 classic Charlie Chaplin films each with a disc of special features including: Chaplin’s biographer David Robinson providing historical and cinematic context for the films, deleted scenes, photos and poster galleries, trailers and scenes from.....
Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2020. Hardcover. The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it's a learnable, improvable skill."Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren't actually.....
Universal Studios, 2005. DVD 2-Volume Set. 2 discs, 5 films, over 8 hours of classic film entertainment. Disc One: Design for Living (1933) – Gary Cooper and Fredric March co-star as two freewheeling Americans sharing an apartment in Paris who both fall in love with the same beautiful woman. When.....
Masterpiece Mystery! 2009-2016. 13 box DVD set comprising the 8 part series in 28 episodes (2009-2016) and 21 discs of the classic PBS Masterpiece Mystery television series inspired by Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels. This adaptation is set in Oxford, England, and features Kevin Whately as Detective Inspector Robert Lewis.....
BFS Entertainment, 2009-2016. 6 Box Set in a collector's wooden box. Collector's edition housed in wooden box. 6 box DVD set of 35 discs, comprising 33 episodes (1987-2000) of the classic BBC television series inspired by Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse mystery novels, complete series. John Thaw stars as the melancholy.....
MPI Home Video, 2004. Single DVD. The most celebrated tale of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's canon and the first of 14 films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (1939).Was Sir Charles Baskerville's violent murder attributable to a devilish curse or a fiendish human? Holmes and Watson investigate.DVD extras: audio commentary.....
MPI Home Video, 2003. 4 DVD Set. Four classic feature films in four DVDs staring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson. Restored in 35mm by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and remastered. These newly restored versions of the classic films include.....
(New York): The Criterion Collection, 2001. First Printing. DVD. 4 DVD special edition box set of Dreyer's sound films - Day of Wrath, Ordet, and Gertud. Each is an intense exloration of the clash between individual desire and social expectations, with Dreyer's famously perfectionist attention to detail shining through. The.....
William Morrow & Company, 2018. Hardcover. A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking four-color artwork of Chris Riddell. "The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."--Neil Gaiman Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published.....
Simon & Schuster, 2020. Paperback. This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 80pp, orange cloth. A stage play taken from the short novel "Envoy Extraordinary" and commissioned by Alastair Sim who played in the lead role - a Roman emperor who hosts a party at his summer home and entertains a discourse on.....
HBO Home Video / Time WArner, 2000. DVD Boxset. Boxset of 4 discs comprising 13 episodes plus special features, including: video interview with Sopranos creator David Chase by Peter Bogdanovich; 2 behind-the-scenes features, web-links and more. Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. .....
Seattle: National Park Service Pacific West Region, 2004. Final Draft. Spiral bound. Quarto, spiral bound with stiff pictorial wrappers, 171pp + appendices, biblio., fully illus. with photographs of the structures and ground, 34 fold-out maps and restoration plans. Established in 1976, the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site is located near.....
Penguin Press, 2021. Hardcover. A magnificent biography of one of the most protean creative forces in American entertainment history, a life of dazzling highs and vertiginous plunges--some of the worst largely unknown until now--by the acclaimed author of Pictures at a Revolution and Five Came BackMike Nichols burst onto the.....
