A Trip to the Movies: Georges Melies, Filmaker and Magician (1861-1938) by Usai, Paolo Cherchi (editor) - 1991

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Clean large format hardcover first edition, SIGNED by the editor, in clean bright dust jacket. Black paper-covered boards with crisp white lettering on cover and spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by editor as follows: "June 13, 1991 - To Ruth, with gratitude, Paolo Cherchi Usai." Illustrated with stills from Georges Melies' films. Printed on quality glossy paper. 186 pages. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Editor Paolo Cherchi Usai is assistant curator, film collections, at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. He is also co-organizer of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Italy, as well as a member of the Programming Commission of the International Federation of Film Archives and a co-founder of "Domitor", an international association for the development of studies in early cinema. This is the most important corpus of original Melies stills in a public film archive (surpassed only by the Melies estate collection), an iconographic treasure published here for the first time in its entirety, thus providing fascinating insights into the world of "the magician of Montreuil.".