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2.7.3 Books

[Loads more being added as I find out about them]
If you know of any that I've missed or know more details of any that I've got here such as ISBN: numbers, other publishers etc then please email me

Places to buy books from:
ABEbooks.com is an organisation that acts as a clearing house for second hand booksellers around the world You can find many of the books listed below on their site Once you do, you can either buy through ABE (paying a small commission) or directly from the bookseller I have used them for many years and have never had any trouble The one time the book wasn't as advertised a full refund was immediately forthcoming Steve Crook		Search: Books Popular Music Classical Music Video DVD Keywords:		Search: All Products Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music Video DVD Toys & Games Baby Keywords:		Paul Mould Publishing Paul Mould has been interested in the cinema since 1941, when Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger arrived in his home town of Boston to shoot One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing

• Books of the films (or books films were made from)
  
  

  Watch Out! Watch out for books being sold that are really just print-outs from Wikipedia articles which you can view for free at any time. I have seen these things being offered about various P&P titles & people.

  • The Red Shoes
    By: Hans Christian Andersen
    One source for The Red Shoes (1948)
    • In "The shoes of fortune, and other tales" - New York: J. Wiley, 1848
    • In "Fairy tales from Hans Andersen" - London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908
    • In "Fairy tales from Hans Andersen" - New York: E.P. Dutton & co., 1908
    • In "Tales" - Odense (Denmark): Flensted, 1972
    
    
  • Caste, an original comedy in three acts
    By: T.W. Robertson
    Source for Caste (1930)
    • New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1876 *
    • New York: H. Roorbach, 1890 [pp. 44]
    • London: Samuel French, 1896 [pp. 82-145]
    • New York: T. Henry French, 1896 [pp. 82-145]
    
    
  • The Manxman
    By: Sir Hall Caine
    Source for The Manxman (1929)
    • New York: D, Appleton and company, 1894
    
    
  • The Fire Raisers
    By: Harold Dearden
    The story of the trial of the arsonist gang (led by an insurance man) which was the basis of the idea for the film. This was one of Britain's longest running criminal trials (at the time) and was very well publicised
    Source for The Fire Raisers (1934)
    • London: Heinemann, 1934
    • Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1972. ISBN: 0-855-94659-8
    • London: Ellis & Buckle (Insurance Loss Adjustors), 1986. ISBN: 0-951-11470-0
    
    
  • The Tales of Hoffmann
    By: E.T.A Hoffmann
    Many editions, in the original German and translated into English
    Source for Offenbach Opera which in turn was the source for the film The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
    • New York: Heritage Press, 1943 [pp.344] *
      Includes The Sandman (Olimpia [sic]) & Councillor Krespel (Antonia)
      Look out for any collection of tales that includes:
      • The Sandman (aka Coppelius)
        Source for Olympia act of ToH
        Also source for the ballet Coppelia by Delibes
      • A New Year's Eve Adventure (aka The Lost Reflection)
        Source for Giulietta act of ToH
      • Councillor Krespel (aka The Cremona Violin, Antonia's Song)
        Source for Antonia act of ToH
    
    
  • The Garden of Allah
    By: Robert Hichens
    Source for The Garden of Allah (1927)
    • New York: F. A. Stokes company,1904
    • New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1904 *
    • London: Methuen & co., ltd., 1918
    
    
  • The Chase of the Golden Plate
    By: Jacques Futrelle
    Source for The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
    • New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906
    
    
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel & The Elusive Pimpernel
    By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy
    These books have been in print since 1905/8 and have been published in far too many versions to list here.
    Source for The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
    • London: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1905
    • New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1908
    
    
  • The Spy in Black
    By: J. Storer Clouston
    Source for The Spy in Black (1939)
    • London, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1917
    • New York: The National Book Co. 1918
    • London, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons, 1920. (Popular edition) *
    
    
  • Mare Nostrum
    By: Vicente Blasco Ibàñez
    Source for Mare Nostrum (1926)
    • Valencia (Spain): Prometco, 1918 *
    
    
  • Gone to Earth
    By: Mary Webb
    Source for Gone to Earth (1950)
    Buy the book
    • London: Constable, 1917
    • New York: E. P. Dutton & co., inc., 1929
    • New York: Dell, 1937 [Paperback] *
      Dell paperback has P&P film credit and a drawing of Jennifer Jones (and Foxy) on the cover - but is still the original story inside.
    • London: Duckworth, 1978. ISBN: 0-715-61338-3
    • London: Duckworth, 1978. ISBN: 0-715-61339-1 [Paperback]
    • New York: Dial Press, 1982. ISBN: 0-385-27654-0 [Paperback]
    
    
  • The Rasp. A Detective Story
    By: Philip MacDonald
    Source for The Rasp (1932)
    • London: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1924 *
    
    
  • Mops
    By: Oliver Sandys
    (Pseudonym for Marguerite Florence Barclay, afterwards Evans, aka Marguerite Caradoc Evans)
    Source for Born Lucky (1932)
    • London: Hurts & Blackett (1928) *
    
    
  • Rynox, an exercise in crime
    By: Philip MacDonald
    Source for Rynox (1932)
    • London: W. Collins sons & co. ltd., 1930 [pp. 252]
    • New York: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1931 [pp. 315 illus] *
      As "The Rynox murder mystery ..."
    
    
    
  • 200,000 Feet on Foula
    By: Michael Powell
    London: Faber & Faber, 1938 *
    US Title "200,000 Feet - The Edge of the World"
    New York: E.P. Dutton & co., 1938 *
    "Edge of the World": The Making of a Film
    London: Faber & Faber, 1990 (Paperback) *
    Buy the book
    The story of the cast & crew's stay on the island while they made The Edge of the World (1937).
    The title is a reference to the amount of film used, not the height of the cliffs
    
    
  • Age of Consent
    By: Norman Lindsay
    New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. (illus by author)
    New York, Toronto: Pocket Book, 1948 (illus by author) *
    Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962. (illus by author) *
    London, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963 (illus by author)
    Source for Age of Consent (1969)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Black Narcissus
    By: Rumer Godden
    This has been in print since 1939 and has been published in far too many versions to list here.
    Source for Black Narcissus (1947)
    There is a version published by World Film Publications (London, 1947) with pictures from the film (some that weren't in the film) and a dustjacket based on the film. But it's still just the original story inside. *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • A Journey Round My Skull
    By: Frigyes Karinthy
    London: Faber and Faber, 1939 *
    NYC: NYRB Classics, March 2008. ISBN: 1-590-17258-2
    Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker
    First hand account of the effects of a brain tumour and the operations to rectify it. This was read by Powell and Pressburger as a part of their research for A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
    
    
  • The Lion Has Wings
    Adapted (from the film script) by: John Ware
    London: Collins, 1940 [pp. 188] *
    
    
  • Alexander Korda's The Thief of Bagdad
    By: Alexander Korda
    (Authorized edition adapted from A. Korda's technicolor production)
    Colouring book (for children - of all ages)
    New York: Saalfield Publishing Co, 1940 *
    
    
  • An Airman's Letter to his Mother
    By: An anonymous airman
    (since revealed to be Flying Officer Vivian Rosewarne)
    London: Putnam & Co, 1940 *
    London: Simpkin Marshall, 1940
    New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940 *
    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1940
    Source for An Airman's Letter to his Mother (1941)
    
    
  • The End of the River
    By: Desmond Holdridge
    New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940 *
    Source for The End of the River (1947)
    I have never seen any reference to any more than the original edition of this book.
    
    
  • One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
    By: Emeric Pressburger
    HMSO publication 1942 [pp. 32] *
    Government publication to accompany the film
    
    
  • The Silver Fleet
    By: Netherland Government Information Bureau
    The story of the film put into narrative by Gordon Wellesley, etc
    HMSO publication 1943 [pp. 32] *
    
    
  • The Small Back Room
    By: Nigel Balchin
    London: Collins, 1943
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1945
    London: Collins, 1969 [Paperback] *
    Source for The Small Back Room (1949)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • I Know Where I'm Going!
    By: Eric Britton
    World Film Publications: London 1946 [pp. 76 front. pl. ports] *
    Adapted from the film
    
    
  • A Matter of Life and Death
    {The famous Little Red Book}
    By: Eric Warman
    World Film Publications: London 1946 [pp. 124, plates, ports. (part col.) 19 cm] *
      {Steve's copy signed by Jack Cardiff, Kathleen Byron & Richard Attenborough}
    Story & behind the scenes photos
    Note: Possibly because of wartime restrictions on materials available the spines seem to often be damaged. There are also editions in mauve boards. There are two dustjackets, a pink one for the edition with red boards & a blue one for the mauve edition. The edition with the red boards mentions the Royal Command Film on the dustjacket.
    
    
  • The Red Shoes Ballet: A Critical Study
    By: Monk Gibbon
    London: Saturn Press 1948 [pp. 95 illus.] *
    Story of the ballet & behind the scenes photos
    Note: The signatures inside the cover are printed !!
    
    
  • Ill Met by Moonlight
    By: W. Stanley Moss
    London: Harrap, 1950
    New York: Macmillan, 1950
    London: Sphere, 1968
    Greece: Efstathiadis Group, 1996 [Paperback, pp. 192 illus.] *
    Source for Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Tales of Hoffmann: A Study of the Film
    By: Monk Gibbon
    London: Saturn Press, 1951 [pp. 96 illus.] *
    Story & behind the scenes photos
    
    
  • The Battle of the River Plate
    By: Dudley Pope
    Foreword by Sir Edward Parry (of the HMNZS Achilles)
    Preface by Sir Charles Woodhouse (of the HMS Ajax)
    London: William Kimber, 1956 [pp. 259 illus.] * [cover]
    London: Alison, 1987 [pp. 219 illus.]
    Story of the battle with many technical details
    Buy the book
    
    
  • They're a Weird Mob
    By: John O'Grady (pseud for Nino Culotta)
    Sydney: Ure Smith, 1957
    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961
    Sydney: Ure Smith, 1966 (Illustrated by "Wep") *
    Source for They're a Weird Mob (1966)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Operation Crossbow
    By: Richard Wormser
    New York: Dell, 1965 [Paperback] * [Cover]
    The book of the film of Operation Crossbow (1965)
    
    
  • Operation Crossbow
    New York: Dell, 1965 [Comic book] *
    12¢ comic book telling the story of the film Operation Crossbow (1965)
    
    
  • The Red Shoes Ballet And The Tales Of Hoffmann
    By: Monk Gibbon
    New York, London: Garland, 1977. ISBN: 0-824-02878-3
    The two earlier books in one volume
    
    
  • The Red Shoes
    By: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
    London: Avon Books, January 1978. ISBN: 0-804-42687-2 [Paperback] *
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-312-14034-7 *
    London: St Martins Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-312-15637-5 [Paperback]
    The full story
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Edge of the World
    By: Michael Powell
    London: Faber & Faber, October 1990. ISBN: 0-571-15306-2 *
    Reprint with updated introduction of 200,000 Feet on Foula
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (edited by Ian Christie)
    By: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
    London: Faber & Faber, June 1994. ISBN: 0-571-14355-5 [Paperback] *
    Includes memos from Churchill and notes showing how the script developed
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
    By: A.L. Kennedy
    London: British Film Institute, 1997 *
    BFI Film Classics series
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Peeping Tom
    By: Leo Marks
    London: Faber & Faber, 1998. ISBN: 0-571-19403-6 *
      {Steve's copy signed by Leo Marks}
    Buy the book
    
    
  • A Canterbury Tale Memories of a Classic Wartime Movie
    By: Paul Tritton
    Canterbury: Tritton Publications, October 2000. ISBN: 0-952-40942-9 *
      {Steve's copy signed by Paul Tritton, Sheila Sim, John Sweet, David Todd, John Clark, Paddy Arnold (continuity), Jim Body (clapper loader) & Myrtle Paton (for Bill Paton)}
    Read the Reviews
    Order it here
    
    
  • A Matter of Life and Death
    By: Ian Christie
    London: British Film Institute, October 2000. ISBN: 0-851-70479-4 *
    University of California Press, 2000.
    BFI Film Classics series
    Read the Reviews
    See the Cover
    Buy the book
    
    
  • I Know Where I'm Going!
    By: Pam Cook
    London: British Film Institute, September 2002. ISBN: 0-851-70814-5 *
    BFI Film Classics series
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Peeping Tom. Il Cinema di Michael Powell
    By: Diego Mondella
    Italy: Falsopiano Light, March 2005 [pp. 222] *
    Announcement details
    
    
  • The Red Shoes
    By: Mark Connelly
    London: I.B. Tauris, August 2005. ISBN: 1-845-11071-4 [pp. 112] *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Black Narcissus
    By: Sarah Street
    London: I.B. Tauris, August 2005. ISBN: 1-845-11046-3 [pp. 128] *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Bluebeard's Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock
    By: Griselda Pollock & Victoria Anderson (eds)
    London: I.B. Tauris, February 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84511-633-0 (pb), 978-84511-632-3 (hb) [pp. 320]
    Essay by Ian Christie about Herzog Blaubarts Burg (1963)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Tales of Hoffmann
    By: William Germano
    London: British Film Institute, June 2013. ISBN: 1-844-57446-6 *
    BFI Film Classics series
    Buy the book
  
  
• by Michael Powell (if not listed above)
  
  
  • A Life in Movies (autobiography - Part I)
    London: Heinemann, 1986. ISBN: 0-434-59945-X [pp. 705, filmography] *
    London: Methuen, 1987. ISBN: 0-413-16510-8 [Paperback]
    New York: Knopf, 1987. ISBN: 0-394-55935-5 [pp. 705, filmography] *
    London: Mandarin, 1992. ISBN: 0-749-31177-0
    London: Faber, 2000. ISBN: 0-571-20431-7 [Paperback]
    Buy the book
    Also en Français
    
    
  • Million Dollar Movie (autobiography - Part II),
    London: Heinemann, 1992. ISBN: 0-434-59947-6 [pp. 612, illustrated, filmography] *
    London: Mandarin, 1993 [Paperback] *
      {Steve's copy signed by Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell, Freddie Francis & Frixos Constantine}
    New York: Random House, April 1995, ISBN: 0-679-43443-7 [pp. 626, illustrated, filmography]
    Buy the book
    Also en Français
    
    
  • Graf Spee
    London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1956 *
    New York, Rinehart, 1957.
    (as Death in the South Atlantic; the last voyage of the Graf Spee)
    London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1958. (pbk)
    London: New English Library, 1973
    London: White Lion Publishers, 1976. ISBN: 0-727-40256-0
    (as The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee)
    Lots of information discovered that couldn't be included in the film BoRP
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Death In The South Atlantic, The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee
    (US vedition of the above)
    NY: Rinehart & Company Inc., 1957
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Die Schicksalsfahrt der Graf Spee
    (German edition)
    Germany: Alfred Scherz, 1957
    Germany: Kaiser, ca 1970
    
    
  • La Bataille du Rio De La Plata
    (French edition)
    Paris: , 1957
    
    
  • A Waiting Game
    (A Novel of Ireland)
    London: Joseph, 1975. ISBN: 0-718-11368-3 *
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975 *
    
    
  • Israel Diary
    Notes from trip to Israel to research film (never made) about Chaim Weizmann, "The Salt of the Earth"
    Privately printed, no details known
  
  
• by Emeric Pressburger (if not listed above)
  
  
  • Killing a Mouse on Sunday
    London: Collins, 1961
    London: Collins, 1963. (Illustrations by Papas) *
    New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961
    Glasgow: Collins, 1964
    London: Fontana Books, 1964
    Made into film Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
    
    
  • Envejece el Guerrillero
    (Spanish edition)
    Barcelona, Spain: Circulo de Lectores, 1962
    Spain: Circulo de Lectores, trans: Isabel B de Ducci, ca 1970
    
    
  • E Venne Il Giorno Della Vendetta
    (Italian edition)
    Milan: Mursia & Co., 1964
    
    
  • Komm Nicht Nach Pamplona
    (German edition)
    Hamburg: Krueger, 1963
    
    
  • The Glass Pearls
    London: Heinemann, 1966 *
    A novel. A very novel novel :) [cover]
    
    
  • The Glass Pearls (pbk)
    London: Faber and Faber, 2015
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Glass Pearls (pbk)
    London: Faber and Faber, 2022
    Buy the book
  
  
• Books by other Archers
  
  
  • Mr. Ramshaw, My Eagle
    By: Captain C.W.R. Knight
    London: Arrowsmith, 1933
    
    
  • All British Eagle
    By: Captain C.W.R. Knight
    London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1943 (The war-time adventures of Captain Knight's golden eagle-Mr. Ramshaw.)
    
    
  • Seeking the Bubble by Esmond Knight (autobiography)
    London: Hutchinson, 1943
    New York: Hutchinson, 1943
    London: Hutchinson, 1945. (2nd edition) *
    Note: Esmond wrote another book Enemy in Sight in Braille while he was at St. Dunstan's. Although a manuscript for it was sold in 1942 for 625 guineas (£656 5/-) it is not thought to have ever been published
    
    
  • The British Theatre by Bernard Miles
    London: Collins, 1948 *
    
    
  • Jean Simmons' Blue Lagoon Diary
    By: Jean Simmons
    London: World Film Publications, 1949
    
    
  • No Royal Road by David Farrar (autobiography)
    Eastbourne, England: Mortimer Publications, 1947
    London: Martini Publications, 1950 *
    David's early life and work up until Black Narcissus (1947)
    
    
  • Round the Rugged Rocks by David Niven (novel)
    London: Cresset Press, 1951
    New York: Prentice-Hall, 1951. (as "Once over lightly")
    
    
  • The Celluloid Mistress; or, the Custard pie of Dr. Caligari.
    By: Rodney Ackland and Elspeth Grant (autobiography)
    London: Allan Wingate, 1954 *
    
    
  • What's Past is Prologue The Memoirs of Vincent Massey
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964 [pp. 540 illus] *
    
    
  • My Life in Ballet by Léonide Massine. (autobiography)
    London: Macmillan, 1968 *
    New York: St Martin's Press, 1968
    
    
  • Theory of Choreographic Composition by Léonide Massine
    1968
    
    
  • God's Brainwave: the story of Jesus doing the job his old dad sent him to do by Bernard Miles
    London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. ISBN: 0-340-12990-5
    
    
  • Timepieces (Irish poetry) by Cyril Cusack
    Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1970. ISBN: 0-196-47547-3
    
    
  • The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven (autobiography)
    London: Hamilton, 1971. ISBN: 0-241-02062-X
    New York: Putnam, 1971
    London: Coronet, 1973 *
    London: Penguin, 1994. ISBN: 0-140-23924-3
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Work of the Motion Picture Cameraman
    By: Freddie Young and Paul Petzold
    London: Focal Press, 1972 ISBN: 0-240-50766-5 *
    
    
  • Loose in the Kitchen
    By: Kim Hunter
    North Hollywood, Calif.: Domina Books, 1975 *
    {Steve's copy signed by Kim Hunter - I bought it already signed}
    
    
  • Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven (Hollywood memories)
    London: Hamilton, 1975. ISBN: 0-241-89273-2 *
    New York: Putnam, 1975. ISBN: 0-399-11542-0
    Sevenoaks, England: Coronet, 1976
    London: Prior, 1976
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Change Lobsters, and Dance an autobiography by Lilli Palmer
    (German title: Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind)
    New York: Macmillan, 1975. ISBN: 0-025-94610-2 *
    London: W. H. Allen, 1976. ISBN: 0-491-01714-6
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Massine on Choreography by Léonide Massine
    London: Faber, 1976. ISBN: 0-571-09302-7
    
    
  • When I was Young by Raymond Massey (autobiography pt 1)
    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. ISBN: 0-771-05854-3 *
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. ISBN: 0-316-54977-0
    London: Robson, 1977
    
    
  • Favourite Tales from Shakespeare by Bernard Miles
    illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus
    London: Hamlyn, 1976 *
    New York: Hamlyn, 1976
    Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976
    Chicago: Childrens Press Choice, 1984
    
    
  • The Red Raven by Lilli Palmer
    Zürich: Droemer Knaur, 1977. (Der rote Rabe) ISBN: 3-858-86057-3
    New York: Macmillan, 1978. ISBN: 0-025-94630-7
    Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979. ISBN: 0-816-16750-8. (Large print edition)
    Buy the book
    
    
  • My Favourite Stories of Scotland edited by John Laurie
    Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1978. ISBN: 0-718-82362-1 *
    
    
  • A Hundred Different Lives
    By: Raymond Massey (autobiography pt 2)
    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. ISBN: 0-771-05856-X
    Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. ISBN: 0-316-54971-1 *
    London: Robson, 1979
    
    
  • Robin Hood, his Life and Legend by Bernard Miles
    Chicago: Rand McNally, 1979. ISBN: 0-528-82340-X *
    
    
  • Curtain Calls by Bernard Miles with J.C. Trewin (Autobiography)
    Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1981. ISBN: 0-718-82476-8 *
    
    
  • Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly by David Niven (novel)
    Sevenoaks, England: Coronet, 1982
    New York: Doubleday, 1981. ISBN: 0-385-17561-2
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Confessions of an Actor by Laurence Olivier (autobiography)
    London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. ISBN: 0-297-78106-5
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. ISBN: 0-671-41701-0
    Buy the book
    
    
  • L'amour au miroir by Ludmila Tcherina (novel)
    Oct 1983. 286pp
    A novel in the medium of the dance, its passions, its intrigues and its cruelty
    Can two superstars love without drama?
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Beautiful Britain by Bernard Miles (edited by Keith Lye)
    London: British Heritage Press, 1984. ISBN: 0-517-43929-8 *
    
    
  • La femme à l'envers by Ludmila Tcherina (novel)
    France: Albin Michel, Oct 1986. ISBN: 2-226-02694-0
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Balletmaster: A dancer's view of Georg Balanchine
    By: Moira Shearer
    London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986. ISBN: 0-283-99334-0
    New York: Putnam, 1987. ISBN: 0-399-13184-1 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Between the Acts and Other Poems by Cyril Cusack
    England: C. Smythe, 1990. ISBN: 0-861-40332-0
    
    
  • Are They Really So Awful?
    By: Christopher Challis
    London: Janus, 1995. ISBN: 1-857-56193-7 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Magic Hour: The Life of a Cameraman
    By: Jack Cardiff
    Faber & Faber, 1996. ISBN: 0-571-17640-2 *
      {Steve's copy signed by Jack Cardiff}
    Buy the book (Paperback)
    Buy the book (Hardback)
    
    
  • Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945
    By: Leo Marks
    Harper Collins, 1998. ISBN: 0-002-55944-7 *
    Free Press, June 1999. ISBN: 0-684-86422-3
    Touchstone Books, Sept 2000. ISBN: 0-684-86780-X [Paperback]
    Read the Review
    The story of Leo's work with SOE
    Buy the book (Paperback)
    Buy the book (Hardback)
    
    
  • Ellen Terry by Moira Shearer
    Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub., May 1998. ISBN: 0-750-91526-9
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Seventy Light Years: An Autobiography
    By: Freddie Young (Peter Busby)
    Faber & Faber, 1999. ISBN: 0-571-19793-0 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Straight From the Horse's Mouth An Autobiography
    By: Ronald Neame with Barbara Roisman
    Scarecrow Press, April 2003. ISBN: 0-810-84490-7
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  • Telling Some Tales by Anna Massey
    Hutchinson, May 2006. ISBN: 0-091-79645-8 [pp 272]
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  • The Straight Story from Moby Dick to Glory, a Memoir by Freddie Francis (with Tony Dalton)
    Scarecrow Press, 22 August 2013. ISBN: 0-810-89205-7
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  • The World was My Lobster by George Cole
    John Blake Publishing Ltd, October 2013. ISBN: 1-782-19469-X
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• Books about The Archers, the films and Archers related people
  
  
  • Sabu the Elephant Boy
    By: Frances Hubbard Flaherty (wife of Robert) and Ursula Leacock
    London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1937
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1937
    
    
  • Sabu of the Elephants
    By: Jack Whittingham (pseudonym for H. K. Hopkins)
    London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938 *
    Preface by Alexander Korda
    
    
  • Robert Helpmann, choreographer by Caryl Brahms (pseudonym for Doris Caroline Abrahams)
    London: B. T. Batsford, ltd., 1943 *
    
    
  • Robert Helpmann; studies by Gordon Anthony
    with an introduction by Dame Ninette De Valois.
    London: Home & Van Thal ltd., 1946. (14pp biog + 31 full page photos)
    
    
  • Moira Shearer: A Ballet Album with a biographical study
    By: Rose Tenent
    Edinburgh: Albyn Press, 1947 *
    
    
  • Moira Shearer: Portrait of a dancer by Pigeon Crowle
    London: Faber and Faber, 1949
    London: Faber and Faber, 1950 *
    New York: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1950
    
    
  • Antonio: Impressions of a Spanish Dancer
    By: Cyril Beaumont
    London: Adam & Charles Black, 1952
    
    
  • Dancers of To-day - No. 2: Moira Shearer
    By: Hugh Fisher (Pseud for Cyril William Swinson)
    London: Adam & Charles Black, 1952 *
    No. 2 in a series of booklets (32pp)
    
    
  • Ballerinas of Sadler's Wells
    By: Hugh Fisher (Pseud for Cyril William Swinson)
    London: Adam & Charles Black, 1954 *
    Chapter on Moira Shearer
    
    
  • Robert Helpmann. An illustrated study of his work
    By: Kathrine Sorley Walker
    London: Rockliff, 1957 *
    
    
  • Flight 777
    By: Ian Colvin
    On the shooting down of a Dutch aircraft in 1943, which resulted in the death of Leslie Howard
    London: Evans Bros., 1957 [pp. 212]
    
    
  • A Quite Remarkable Father
    A biography of Leslie Howard
    By: Leslie Ruth Howard
    London: Longmans, 1960 [pp. 280 (illus)]
    
    
  • A Mirror for England by Raymond Durgnat
    London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1970. ISBN: 0-571-09503-8 *
    New York: Praeger, 1971
    (Mainly Chapter 6) But not exactly free from errors
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  • Michael Powell in Collaboration with Emeric Pressburger
    By: Kevin Gough-Yates
    London: British Film Institute, 1971. ISBN: 0-851-70006-3 [pp. 16 filmog.]
    Compiled by Kevin Gough-Yates for the NFT
    Corrected copy by Michael Powell available at the BFI Library
    
    
  • Michael Powell. Article and interview by Kevin Gough-Yates
    Published on the occasion of Europalia '73
    Brussels: Palais des beaux-art, 1973 [pp. 48 illus. filmog. index.] *
    Includes a detailed filmography, but it contains errors
    
    
  • Michael Powell by Kevin Gough-Yates
    Royal Film Archive of Belgium, 1973
    
    
  • Michael Powell: filmography
    By: Kingsley Canham
    London: National Film Archive, 1973
    pp. 46 Photocopy at the BFI Library
    
    
  • The Cinema of David Lean by Gerald Pratley
    South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1973
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  • Massine: A Biography by Vincente García-Márquez
    London: Faber, 1976. ISBN: 0-571-09302-7
    New York: Knopf, 1995. ISBN: 0-394-51003-8 *
    
    
  • David Lean and his films by Alain Silver and James Ursini
    London: Frewin, 1974
    Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 1992. ISBN: 1-879-50500-2
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  • Deborah Kerr by Eric Braun
    London: W. H. Allen, 1977 *
    New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. ISBN: 0-312-18895-1
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  • Powell, Pressburger and Others by Ian Christie
    London: British Film Institute, 1978 [pp. 124 filmog (essays on the films)] *
    {One of Steve's copies signed by Michael Powell - I bought it already signed}
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The films of Jennifer Jones
    By: W. Franklyn Moshier
    San Francisco: Moshier, 1978 *
    
    
  • Helpmann: the authorised biography by Elizabeth Salter
    Brighton: Angus and Robertson, 1978. ISBN: 0-207-95670-7 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • A Critical History of British Cinema by Roy Armes
    London: Secker & Warburg, 1978 *
    New York: OUP, 1978
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  • Life with Googie by John McCallum
    London: Heinemann, 1979 [pp. 275p] ISBN: 0-434-40020-3 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Martin Scorsese, the first decade
    By: Mary Pat Kelly
    [introduced by Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Powell]
    Pleasantville, N.Y.: Redgrave Pub. Co., 1980 [pp. 206 (illus)] ISBN: 0-913-17867-5 *
    Note: The signature inside the front free endpaper is printed there !!
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  • In search of my father. A portrait of Leslie Howard
    By: Ronald Howard
    London: St. Martin's Press, 1981 [pp. 255 (illus)] ISBN: 0-312-41161-8
    
    
  • Rétrospective Powell & Pressburger
    35ème Festival international du film de Locarno 1982
    Locarno: Editions du Festival, 1982
    textes et iconographie réunis par Roland Cosandey [pp. 162 illus. bibliog. filmog]
    Published to coincide with retrospective event held at the 35th International Film Festival, Locarno 1982
    
    
  • Living cinema: Powell & Pressburger
    By: Fritz Gottler (Editor)
    München: KinoKonTexte,1982 [pp. 148 illus. index]
    Zu einer Retrospektive im Herbst 1982
    (A retrospective in Autumn 1982)
    
    
  • L'oeuvre de Michael Powell, cineaste britannique: etude biographique et thematique
    By: Claude Guiguet
    Unpubished thesis, 1983 [pp. 484,104 illus. bibliog]
    Available at the BFI library
    
    
  • Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
    By: Ian Christie
    London: Waterstone, 1985. ISBN: 0-947-75213-7 "Coffee Table" version *
      {Steve's copy signed by Ian Christie}
    [pp. 127 illus. col. plates. bibliog. filmog. index]
    London: Faber & Faber, July 1994. ISBN: 0-571-16271-1 (updated reprint) *
    [pp. 163 illus. filmog. bibliog. index.] Foreword by Martin Scorsese
    Spain: September 2002. ISBN: 8-486-87729-6 *
    Bilingual edition (Spanish/English) printed for the San Sebastiàn Film Festival,
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  • The Other Side of the Moon by Sheridan Morley
    A biography of David Niven
    London: George Weidenfield & Nicholson, 1985
    London: Coronet, 1986. ISBN: 0-773-68001-2 [Paperback] *
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  • Star-crossed: the story of Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones
    By: Beverly Linet
    New York: Putnam, 1986. ISBN: 0-399-13194-9 *
    
    
  • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger by Emanuela Martini
    Bergamo, Italy: Bergamo Film-Meeting '86, 1986 [pp. 135 illus. bibliog. filmog]
    
    
  • Conrad Veidt. from Caligari to Casablanca by J.C. Allen
    Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1987. ISBN: 0-940-16804-9. pbk *
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  • Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger by Emanuela Martini
    Florence, Italy: La Nuova Italia, 1989
    (Series: Il Castoro cinema) [pp. 127 bibliog. filmog]
    
    
  • James Mason: A Personal Biography by Diana de Rosso
    Luton, England: Lennard, 1989
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  • James Mason: Odd Man Out by Sherdian Morley
    London: Coronet, 1989
    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989
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  • David Lean by Stephen M. Silverman
    London: A. Deutsch, 1989
    New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989
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  • Scorsese on Scorsese by Martin Scorsese
    Edited by David Thompson and Ian Christie
    Introduction by Michael Powell
    London: Faber and Faber, 1989. ISBN: 0-571-15243-0 [Paperback] *
    Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990
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  • The European filmmaker in exile in Britain 1933-45
    By: Kevin Gough-Yates
    UMI, Ann Arbor, 1991
    I.B. Tauris; ISBN: 1-860-64372-8
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  • Michael Powell (interviews & articles)
    Edited By: Manuel Cintra Ferreira
    Lisbon: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 1992
    
    
  • Michael Powell and English Genius
    By: Raymond Durgnat
    England, 1992
    Taylor & Francis Group ; ISBN: 0-415-03373-X
    
    
  • Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter
    By: Kevin Macdonald (Emeric's grandson)
    London: Faber and Faber, 1994. ISBN: 0-571-16853-1 *
    London: Faber and Faber, 1994. ISBN: 0-571-17829-4 [Paperback] *
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  • Portrait of Jennifer: A Biography of Jennifer Jones
    By: Edward Z. Epstein
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 *
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  • Exile and England: reappraisal of Emeric Pressburger
    By: Kevin Gough-Yates
    Sight and Sound, December 1995 *
    
    
  • Secret muses: the life of Frederick Ashton
    By: Julie Kavanagh
    New York: Pantheon Books, 1996
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  • David Lean: a biography by Kevin Brownlow
    New York: A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, 1996
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Michael Powell by James Howard
    London: B.T. Batsford, May 1996. ISBN: 0-713-47482-3 *
    pp. 158 illus. filmog. bibliog. teleog. appendices. index
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The films of Michael Powell and the Archers by Scott Salwolke
    Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-810-83183-X
    London: Scarecrow Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-810-83183-X *
    [pp. 335, 16 plates., bibliog., filmog., index]
    Warning: Lots of mistakes !! See Steve's list of the errors in it
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  • The Musician Theodorakis by Asteris Koutoulas
    Greece: Livanis Publishing, 1998
    
    
  • Structures of Desire by Tony Williams
    New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-791-44643-3 *
    [pp. 213, 23 illustr., bibliog]
    Note: Two chapters about The Archers
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  • Michael Powell y Emeric Pressburger
    By: Llorenç Esteve
    Spain, Catedra, 2002 *
      {Steve's copy signed by Llorenç}
    See Reviews
    
    
  • Conrad Veidt on Screen; A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography
    By: John T. Soister
    McFarland & Co. 2002. ISBN: 0-786-41289-5
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Representation of Reality and Fantasy in the Films of Powell and Pressburger, 1939-1946
    By: Valerie Wilson
    London: University of London. 2002.
    (PhD thesis)
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  • Michael Powell: Interviews edited by David Lazar
    University Press of Mississippi, 2003 ISBN: 1-578-06498-8 *
    Buy the book
    See Press release about the book
    
    
  • Conversations with Jack Cardiff
    By: Justin Bowyer
    B.T. Batsford, 21st September 2003. ISBN: 0-713-48855-7 *
    {Steve's copy signed by Jack & Justin}
    Buy the book
    See announcement
    Book launch and review
    
    
  • Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven
    By: Graham Lord
    Orion, 1st October 2003. ISBN: 0-752-85306-6
    Buy the book
    
    
  • The Thief of Bagdad: An Arabian Fantasy
    By: Philip Leibfried and Malcolm Willits
    Hypostyle Hall Hall, 2004 *
    More information
    
    
  • Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography
    By: John Coldstream
    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 13th September 2004. ISBN: 0-297-60730-8 *
    {Steve's copy signed by John Coldstream & Gareth Bogarde (Dirk's brother)}
    [pp. 472, filmog, bibliog, family tree, illus]
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces
    By: Andrew Moor
    I.B. Tauris, 24th March 2005. ISBN: 1-850-43947-8 (hardback) [pp. 288] *, 1-780-76377-8 (paperback) [pp. 272]
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  • The Cinema of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on an English Filmmaker
    Edited by Ian Christie and Andrew Moor
    BFI, August 2005. ISBN: 1-844-57094-0 (pb) * 1-844-57093-2 (hb)
    {Steve's copy signed by Ian Christie}
    [pp. 240, filmog, illus]
    15 essays on Powell & Pressburger and their films
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  • Antonio, el bailarin: Memorias de viva voz. Autobiografia y testamento
    By: Santy Arriazu
    Ediciones B / Europa Press, Madrid. ISBN: 8-466-62798-7
    Biography of the star of Luna de Miel
    
    
  • Muir Mathieson: A Life in Film Music
    By: Sheila Hetherington & Mark Brownrigg
    Scottish Cultural Press, Scotland. April 2006. ISBN: 1-898-21811-0
    Biography of the man who was conductor or musical director on over 1,000 British films including quite a few for P&P
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  • Quota Quickies : The Birth of the British 'B' Film
    By: Steve Chibnall
    BFI, London. 2007. ISBN: 1-844-57155-6 (pbk) *
    This book goes a long way towards rescuing the idea that all "Quota Quickies" should be dismissed as cheap and bad. And of course not all British films made in that period were Quota films
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  • The Man Who Always Did His Best: The Life & Death of Dennis Price
    By: Elliot J. Huntley
    Trafford Publishing, Oxford. 2006. ISBN: 1-412-08848-8 *
    Dennis Price - A Tribute: The Life and Death of Dennis Price
    Retitled 2nd edition
    Pickard Communication, Sheffield. 2008. ISBN: 978-1-905-27825-1
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  • Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema
    By: Adrienne L. McLean, University of Texas at Dallas
    Rutgers University Press, N.J.. 2008. ISBN: 0-813-54280-4
    Adrienne has done a lot of research into ballet in films and the critical and public reception of The Red Shoes.
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  • A Matter of Life and Death: the Brain revealed by the Mind of Michael Powell
    By: Diane Broadbent Friedman
    AuthorHouse, UK. 2008. ISBN: 1-438-90945-4 *
    An expansion of Diane's earlier work exploring the medical aspects of AMOLAD
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  • Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger
    By: Dr Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England. 2008. ISBN: 1-847-18744-7
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  • Landscapes of dreams: The Cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Part 1)
    By: George Darakhvelidze
    Globe Press, Vinnitsa, Ukraine. 2008. ISBN: 966-8300-29-3. *
    [720 pages + 76 pages of illustrations]
    Buy the book (from November 2008)
    Buy the book (US seller) Also:
    The landscapes of dreams. Cinematography by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. (Part II)
    By George Darakhvelidze
    The landscapes of dreams. Cinematography by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. (Part III)
    By George Darakhvelidze
    The landscapes of dreams. Cinematography by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. (Part IV)
    By George Darakhvelidze
    
    
  • Photogénie du désir: Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger 1945-1950
    By: Dr. Natacha Thiéry
    Préface de Raoul Ruiz
    Presse Universitaires de Rennes, France. 2009. ISBN: 978-2-7535-0964-1 *
    {Steve's copy signed by the lovely Natacha}
    [pp. 326 + illustrations in (Techni)colour]
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  • Michael Powell's Canterbury Tales
    By: Paul Tritton
    Parkers, Canterbury *
    [pp. 140 + over 300 photographs]
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Star of India: The Life and Films of Sabu
    By: Philip Leibfried, BearManor Media, OK, USA. 2010. ISBN: 978-1-5939-3603-7 *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Portraits: Fred Daniels
    By: Nigel Arthur & Ewa Reeves, Fundacja Twarda Satuka, Warsaw, Poland. 2012. ISBN: 978-83-930435-2-1 *
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  • 'I Live Cinema' : The Life and Films of Michael Powell by James Howard
    UK: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, June 2013. ISBN: 1-470-01179-4 *
    pp. 392 illus. filmog. bibliog. teleog. appendices. index
    Buy the book (UK)
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  • Our Eric: A Portrait of Eric Portman
    By: Andy Owens, Sigma Press, England. October 2013. ISBN: 1-850-5898-1-X *
    Buy the book
    
    
  • Michael Powell`s The Edge of the World - Then & Now
    By: David W. Earl. Hanover Publications, UK. February 2014. ISBN: 978-09523928-5-9 *
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  • His Own Executioner: The Life of Nigel Balchin
    By: Derek Collett. SilverWood Books, UK. Sept 2015. ISBN: 978-1781323915
    Buy the book

Those marked with a * are in Steve's library (in one form or another)

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Remainder of FAQ Section 2

• Section 2.1 PnP on the IMDb
• Section 2.2. Reviews & Articles
• Section 2.3. Images Archives.
• Section 2.4. Other Powell and Pressburger Sites.
• Section 2.5. Where were the films made?
• Section 2.6. Where Can I See The Films?
• Section 2.6.1 DVD - Digital Versatile Disks
• Section 2.6.2 DVD Information & advice
• Section 2.6.3 DVD Questions & Answers
• Section 2.6.4 DVD Reviews
• Section 2.6.9 Home Cinema and Entertainment
• Section 2.7. Films, Documentaries & Books
• Section 2.7.1 The Films
• Section 2.7.2 Documentaries about P&P and related subjects
  
  
• Section 2.8. Music from the films
• Section 2.8.1 P&P actors on record