 Author Name: WILLIAMS, Ned
Title: CINEMAS OF THE BLACK COUNTRY
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Wolverhampton, U.K Uralia Press 1982
ISBN Number: 0950053368 / 9780950053363
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6439
Numbered Limited Edition of a 1,000 copies signed by the author. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top spine edge and top front outer corner edge slightly rubbed, ¼" closed tear at back top edge by spine. Previous owner's label on back flap. 232pp, including index. With frontispiece and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Over one hundred places of entertainment are described, only seven of which are still showing films when the book went to press. The book is about architecture, people, social events, technical data, business enterprise, communities, films, music, dreams and vanished illusions. A very scarce and interesting book. Plus scarce 20-page "Cinemas of the Black Country" Supplement with 10 black-and-white photographs, also 16-page booklet "The Kinema at Kinver' by Bill Parker and Ned Williams, and a leaflet "The opening of the Hart's Hill Limelight Cinema April 1995 at the Black Country Museum, Dudley." (12"h x 8½"w) (30.5cms x 21.5cms) approx.
Cinema history movies films Black Country Wolverhampton Coliseum Walsall Palace Wednesbury Picture House Dudley Regent Wordesley Olympia Kingswinford Grand Quarry Bank Coronet Old Hill Grand West Bromwich Empire Smethwick Empire Oldbury Palace Blackheath Odeon
Price =
115.00 GBP |
