“Movies, the Desperate Art” in The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, Number 3

by Pauline Kael, William Phillips, Philip Rahv

$125 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

First edition

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1956 . Pocket paperback, measuring 6.5 x 4.25: 2 , 216, 6 . Original color-printed wrappers, priced at 50 cents. Light shelfwear, text block toned and brittle. First edition of this midcentury anthology, containing the first appearance of film critic Pauline Kael’s manifesto “Movies, the Desperate Art.” Published while Kael was struggling to manage a

• Binding: Paperback

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