EMOTION PICTURES: REFLECTIONS ON THE CINEMA

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with white titles to the spine, in the photo-illustrated dustwraper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a touch of bumping at the spine tips, the cloth fresh. The contents, toned to the cheap paper-stock are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that is without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.99 to the lower front flap).

Inscribed by the German filmmaker in black ink on the front endpaper "For Max / at the beginning of our first adventure / with all my admiration / Wim Wenders". The recipient is the Swedish actor Max Von Sydow, who at the time of presentation was beginning filming of the science fiction epic 'Until the End of the World' directed by Wim Wenders, also starring William Hurt and Solveig Dommartin. A nice association. A collection of thirty-three pieces, written between 1968-1984, all of which document Wenders' cultural obsessions that were to lead to 'Paris, Texas', the film that won him the Palme d'Or in Cannes.