The American Movies Reference Book : The Sound Era

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1969. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. Clean, square, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (29.95). Jacket has light fraying to extremities. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated reference book, covering the history, players, films, directors, producers and awards of the film industry... Here [is] an authoritative and comprehensive volume, lavishly illustrated with nearly 2,000 photographs..." The book has six major sections: 1) THE HISTORY of American sound films, covering film makers, methods and techniques; 2) THE PLAYERS, an illustrated gallery with biographical profiles and filmographies for over 600 actors and actresses; 3) THE FILMS, describing over 1000 of the best and most important American sound films, with complete casts, production credits, as well as interesting sidelights of the films; 4) THE DIRECTORS, with biographical profiles and filmographies for over 50 top directors; 5) THE PRODUCERS, with biographical profiles and filmographies for over 50 top producers; 6) THE AWARDS, listing winners (and key losers) of the Academy Awards (Oscars), The New York Critics' Awards, The Patsy Awards (best animal actors), the top-grossing films, etc. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in silver. [NOTE: another edition with a title similar to this one was published in 1980, but it has only 342 pages, far fewer than this first edition's 629 pages]. . First Printing of the First Edition.. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition./Very Good Dust Jacket.. 629pp. .