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Hammer Glamour
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781848562295; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.; <a title='Condition Guide' href='/content/Condition_and_Shipping_Guide.htm' target='_blank'>Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices</a> ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-16 Summary: Beautifully presented and superbly organized ... An icon of B movie productions, Britain's Hammer Studios turned out some of the best horror genre flicks the 1950s and early 1960s had to offer. Especially their vampire films which continue to be popular late night television fare. A mainstay of their enduring entertainment value was the veritable bevy of beautiful (and often scantily clad) actresses. Now Marcus Hearn has gone into the Hammer archives and assembled a 160-page compendium of photographs showcasing these women whose contributions on screen gave Hammer ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-01-04 Summary: They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore ... What do you think of when you think of Hammer Horror films? Here is at any rate what comes to my semi-educated mind: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, scary laboratories, spooky castles, crosses, relics, "German" peasants who speak Cockney, great period clothing, terrible period sets, horrible murders, gallons of Technicolor blood...and hot women in nightdress showing lots of cleavage. It is to this last category that HAMMER GLAMOUR is addressed. Because let's face it, friends and neighbors, ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-19 Summary: I Loved It ... As one who greatly enjoyed Hammer's films growing up, I greatly enjoyed this book as well as Marcus Hearn's other book on Hammer films. I've met several of the women featured in this book: Caroline Munro, Madeline Smith, Martine Beswicke, the late, wonderful Hazel Court and my favorite, Ingrid Pitt. It was so nice reading about them here as well as so many others. I particularly liked learning more about the beautiful, classy Barbara Shelley, whose beautiful picture adrorns the back cover of this book. The one sad ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-16 Summary: Male Hammer Fans, Rejoice! ... Since the readership for this particular volume is likely a specialized one (see my review title if this demographic still eludes you), I'll refrain from general praise for Hammer itself and assume that I'm preaching to the converted. So, to the male Hammer devotee, stop wasting time reading this review and buy this book! This presentation and the pictures within are top-caliber, glamorous and sexy without being trashy. There is also plenty of interesting info on your favorite starlets, which should satisfy the curiosity ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula , Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full...more
Hammer Glamour
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781848562295; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.; <a title='Condition Guide' href='/content/Condition_and_Shipping_Guide.htm' target='_blank'>Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices</a> ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-16 Summary: Beautifully presented and superbly organized ... An icon of B movie productions, Britain's Hammer Studios turned out some of the best horror genre flicks the 1950s and early 1960s had to offer. Especially their vampire films which continue to be popular late night television fare. A mainstay of their enduring entertainment value was the veritable bevy of beautiful (and often scantily clad) actresses. Now Marcus Hearn has gone into the Hammer archives and assembled a 160-page compendium of photographs showcasing these women whose contributions on screen gave Hammer ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-01-04 Summary: They Don't Make 'Em Like This Anymore ... What do you think of when you think of Hammer Horror films? Here is at any rate what comes to my semi-educated mind: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, scary laboratories, spooky castles, crosses, relics, "German" peasants who speak Cockney, great period clothing, terrible period sets, horrible murders, gallons of Technicolor blood...and hot women in nightdress showing lots of cleavage. It is to this last category that HAMMER GLAMOUR is addressed. Because let's face it, friends and neighbors, ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-19 Summary: I Loved It ... As one who greatly enjoyed Hammer's films growing up, I greatly enjoyed this book as well as Marcus Hearn's other book on Hammer films. I've met several of the women featured in this book: Caroline Munro, Madeline Smith, Martine Beswicke, the late, wonderful Hazel Court and my favorite, Ingrid Pitt. It was so nice reading about them here as well as so many others. I particularly liked learning more about the beautiful, classy Barbara Shelley, whose beautiful picture adrorns the back cover of this book. The one sad ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-12-16 Summary: Male Hammer Fans, Rejoice! ... Since the readership for this particular volume is likely a specialized one (see my review title if this demographic still eludes you), I'll refrain from general praise for Hammer itself and assume that I'm preaching to the converted. So, to the male Hammer devotee, stop wasting time reading this review and buy this book! This presentation and the pictures within are top-caliber, glamorous and sexy without being trashy. There is also plenty of interesting info on your favorite starlets, which should satisfy the curiosity ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula , Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full...more
Hammer Films- A Life In Pictures: The Visual Story of Hammer Films
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-07-19 Summary: One of the best books on Hammer Films ... This book may strike some people as pricey, but if you love Hammer Films like I do, it is well worth it. This book is different from other Hammer books in that it is totally visual. Most of the pictures have never been published before, and there are a number of behind-the-scenes photos which show a side of Hammer Films most fans have not seen. This book does not contain a "nuts and bolts" history of Hammer--there are plenty of other books which do that. This is a book for the hard-core Hammer fan who thinks he or ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-03-01 Summary: Beautiful Photo History of Hammer Films ... This is a fantastic book. Hundreds of photos showcase the studio that was Hammer. Broken down into chapters including Frankenstein, Dracula, Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, etc. The photos are crisp and clear, mostly b/w, but there are several color sections. You will spend hours with this book. I loved it and wish there were more books like this. Limited to 2500 copies, get yours today before they are gone. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Last year, several boxes of never-seen-before photos of Hammer Films productions was archived by Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey for the British Film Institute. Kinsey and the BFI were so impressed by the collection, that it was agreed the best should be published.Through these rare and mostly previously unseen images, Hammer Films - A Life in Pictures tells the visual story of Hammer's output. You will be guided through this wonderful collection of photos by Kinsey himself,the celebrated author...more
Hammer & Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781605980553; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always two-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries—surrounded by secret police, threatened with arrest, imprisonment and forced labor, a failed economic system, and bombarded...more
The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 3
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9781892389800; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-11-18 Summary: I love Hammer's Slammers. ... I collected all the individual books in the Hammer's Slammers series. When the consolidated collection came out I bought them, too. I enjoy the action, and the insight into the military mind-set. I also like the fact that the Slammers always win, although often at considerable cost. It is salutary to consider the collateral damage, in material destroyed, people killed and ecology harmed. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-04-27 Summary: Hammer's slammers Vol 3 ... A good add to your David Drake Library. Put it in there with Vol 1 & 2. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This three volume set presents for the first time the genre-defining Slammers series in a uniform hardcover set. This volume features the final two Slammers novels, The Sharp End and Paying the Piper, as well as an original novelette, The Darkness. This volume will feature an introduction by Barry Malzberg, and cover art by John Berkey....more
Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780393067187; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-12-30 Summary: quick, witty, and enjoyable ... This may be the first book I've read which referenced the Ripper murders that didn't annoy me. The weird irony of this book is that the Ripper murders are going on and our Heroine, Grace, considers them a tabloid annoyance, wrapped as she is in her own problems. I'll save you the suspense: none of the characters named in the book are the Ripper. It's just a contemporary event that Stockbridge threw in there to lend verisimilitude. Now that that's out of the way, Grace Hammer is a cool, collected lady who knows what ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-09-19 Summary: A Spoon Full of Sugar to Help the Medicine Go Down ... There are a few books which I can say that the negatives and the positives are in almost complete balance. Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld is, for better or worse, one of those books. Sara Stockbridge's writing reminds me, in some ways, of Victorian writers . . . full of complex sentences, an intimate narrator, and lengthy, blow-by-blow scenic descriptions. The problem is, however, that the complex sentences are often needlessly so and, although complex they are not always well-written; the intimate ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-09-16 Summary: "What she was stealing: a deadly thing, a burden and a curse." ... Grace Hammer is a very unusual Victorian heroine, a jewel among the unpolished stones of late 19th century London, particularly in the East End, where streetwalkers rub elbows with pickpockets and reprobates of every ilk, where vice is profitable and life is cheap. Grace has made a niche for herself in this aberrant society; a thief, she has created a comfortable home for four children (by different fathers), a natural survivor ever on the lookout for opportunity. Unfortunately, Grace's past is just as checkered as ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | An engrossing suspense novel set in Victorian London—about stolen fortunes, romance, murder, and revenge. Whitechapel, 1888. Grace Hammer and her children live comfortably in Bell Lane, their home a little oasis in the squalor of London’s East End. They make their living picking the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. But Grace’s history is about to catch up with her. Out in the countryside Mr. Blunt rocks in his chair, vowing furious retribution. He has...more