[FILM AUTOGRAPHS]. LAMBRAY, Maureen. The American Film Directors Volume I. New York: Rapoport Press, [1976].
4to. Illustrated with photographic portraits of film directors. Original full black morocco, front board and spine stamped in gilt, marbled endleaves (some wear to binding, hinges reinforced, several gutters over-opened or cracked, text shaken). Provenance: From the collection of the publisher of Lord John Press, Herb Yellin (1935-2014), with his business card affixed to the front pastedown.
FIRST EDITION, specially bound by Lord John Press for publisher Herb Yellin. AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY SIGNED BY OVER 500 FILM DIRECTORS, ACTORS AND OTHER HOLLYWOOD PERSONALITIES, ON EVERY PAGE. Including: Edie Adams, Anouk Aimee, Edward Albee, Eddie Albert, Joan Allen, Woody Allen, June Allyson, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Edward Anhalt, Michelangelo Antonioni, Judd Apatow, Richard Attenborough, Lauren Bacall, Kevin Bacon, John Badham, Carroll Baker, Rick Baker, Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Ellen Barkin, Paul Bartel, Kim Basinger, Kathy Bates, Michael Bay, Jennifer Beals, Ned Beatty, Warren Beatty, Bonnie Bedelia, Annette Bening, Richard Benjamin, Bruce Beresford, Candice Bergen, Susan Bernard, Elmer Bernstein, Turhan Bey, Theodore Bikel, Tony Bill, Juliette Binoche, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Black, Linda Blair, Robert Blake, Brenda Blethyn, Robert Bloch, Budd Boetticher, Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Bologna, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Boorman, Ernest Borgnine, Peter Boyle, Eddie Bracken, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth Branaugh, Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges, Mel Brooks, Pierce Brosnan, Jerry Bruckheimer, Diep Zoe Bui, Genevieve Bujold, Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Tim Burton, Red Buttons, Gabriel Byrne, James Caan, Sid Caesar, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Corinne Calvet, Kate Capshaw, Leslie Caron, Keith Carradine, Jim Carrey, Jack Carter, Seymour Cassel, Joanna Cassidy, Gilbert Cates, George Chakiris, Stockard Channing, Geraldine Chaplin, Cyd Charrisse, Julie Christie, John Cleese, George Clooney, James Coburn, Joel Coen, Joan Collins, Stephen Collins, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Sophia Coppola, Roger Corman, Kevin Costner, Brian Cox, Peter Coyote, Wes Craven, Richard Crenna, Michael Crichton, James Cromwell, David Cronenberg, Cameron Crowe, Russell Crowe, Billy Crystal, George Cukor, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Curtis, Joe Dante, Jules Dassin, Daniel Day Lewis, Frances Dee, Judi Dench, Robert DeNiro, Laura Dern, Danny DeVito, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Dmytryk, Stanley Donen, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey, Jr, Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis, Keir Dullea, Faye Dunaway, Michael Clarke Duncan, Irene Dunne, Charles Durning, Robert Duvall, Shelley Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, Samantha Eggar, Atom Egoyan, Hector Elizondo, Alison Elliott, Julius J. Epstein, Carl Evans, Robert Evans, Nanette Fabray, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Federico Fellini, Lawrence Fishburne, Carrie Fisher, Frances Fisher, Fionnula Flanagan, Richard Fleischer, Rhonda Fleming, Louise Fletcher, Bridget Fonda, Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Horton Foote, Harrison Ford, Milos Forman, Jodie Foster, John Frankenheimer, Dennis Franz, Morgan Freeman, William Friedkin, Sam Fuller, James Garner, Teri Garr, Betty Garrett, John Gavin, Costa Gavras, Mitzi Gaynor, Ben Gazzara, Paul Giamatti, Henry Gibson, Mel Gibson, Terry Gilliam, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Jeff Goldblum, Jerry Goldsmith, Elliott Gould, Hugh Grant, Peter Graves, Coleen Gray, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Greer, Melanie Griffith, Larry Gross, John Guare, Clu Gulager, Gene Hackman, Conrad L. Hall, Philip Baker Hall, Lasse Halstrom, George Hamilton, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden, Jessica Harper, Curtis Harrington, Roy Harryhausen, Signe Hasso, June Havoc, John Hawkes, Tippi Hedren, Monte Hellman, Mariel Hemingway, Barbara Hershey, Charlton Heston, Scott Hicks, Walter Hill, Arthur Hiller, Alfred Hitchcock (with his iconic self-portrait sketch), Dustin Hoffman, Hal Holbrook, Earl Holliman, Celeste Holm, Bob Hope, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Hopkins, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Bonnie Hunt, David Hunt, Helen Hunt, Marsha Hunt, Holly Hunter, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Anjelica Huston, John Huston, Timothy Hutton, Amy Irving, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, Henry Jaglom, Allison Janney, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Norman Jewison, Neal Jimenez, Scarlett Johannson, Glynis Johns, Joe Johnston, Chuck Jones, Jennifer Jones, Quincy Jones, Shirley Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Louis Jourdan, Charlie Kaufman, Stacy Keach, Diane Keaton, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kellerman, Rory Kelly, Tom Keneally, Burt Kennedy, George Kennedy, Irvin Kerschner, Ken Kesey, Evelyn Keyes, Nicole Kidman, Ben Kingsley, Randal Kleiser, Kevin Kline, Jack Klugman, Sebastian Koch, Harvey Korman, Laszlo Kovacs, Stanley Kramer, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd, Maureen Lambray, Martin Landau, John Landis, Angela Lansbury, Andrew Lau, Piper Laurie, Francis Lederer, Ang Lee, Anna Lee, Michel Legrand, Janet Leigh, Mike Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Joseph H. Lewis, Christopher Lloyd, Norman Lloyd, Sondra Locke, Robert Loggia, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Rob Lowe, George Lucas, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Carol Lynley, Shirley MacLaine, WIlliam H. Macy, Karl Malden, John Malkovich, Louis Malle, Tom Mankiewicz, Delbert Mann, Joe Mantegna, Leslie Manville, Gary Marshall, Penny Marshall, Rob Marshall, Tonie Marshall, Steve Martin, Al Martino, Walter Matthau, Virginia Mayo, Paul Mazursky, Kevin McCarthy, Frances McDormand, Roddy McDowall, Malcolm McDowell, Ian McKellan, John McNaughton, Sam Mendes, Burgess Meredith, Dina Merrill, Russ Meyer, Ann Miller, Robert Ellis Miller, John Mills, Yvette Mimieux, Vincente Minnelli, Walter Mirisch, Alfred Molina, Ricardo Montalban, Constance Moore, Demi Moore, Dudley Moore, Roger Moore, Terry Moore, Jeanne Moreau, Rita Moreno, Viggo Mortensen, Gustavo Mosquera R, Robert Mulligan, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Jack Nicholson, Leslie Nielsen, Christopher Nolan, Phillip Noyce, Margaret O’Brien, Donald O’Connor, Maureen O’Hara, Nancy Olson, Haley Joel Osment, Al Pacino, Alan J. Pakula, Jack Palance, Alan Parker, Gordon Parks, Estelle Parsons, Jason Patric, Bill Paxton, Alexander Payne, Gregory Peck, Arthur Penn, Joe Pesci (2), Daniel Petrie, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kimberly Pierce, Nick Pileggi, Brad Pitt, Polly Platt, Sidney Poitier, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Jane Powell, Stefanie Powers, Jonathan Pryce, Dennis Quaid, Anthony Quinn, Steve Railsback, Luise Rainer, Vanessa Redgrave, Leni Reifenstahl, John C. Reilly, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Debbie Reynolds, Kevin Reynolds, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Cliff Robertson, Alex Rocco, Eugene Roche, Mickey Rooney, Herbert Ross, Isabella Rossellini, Richard Roundtree, Gena Rowlands, Mark Ruffalo, Barbara Rush, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Rush, David O. Russell, Jane Russell, Ken Russell, Kurt Russell, Theresa Russell, Ann Rutherford, Mark Rydell, Winona Ryder, Eva Marie Saint, Jan Sardi, Ann Savage, John Saxon, Maximilian Schell, Fred Schepisi, John Schlesinger, Thelma Schoonmaker, Barbet Schroeder, Joel Schumacher, Martin Scorsese, Lizabeth Scott, Ridley Scott, George Segal, Steven Segal, Omar Sharif, Martin Sheen, Sidney Sheldon, Cybill Shepherd, Vincent Sherman, Talia Shire, Elisabeth Shue, George Sidney, Henry Silva, Jean Simmons, Neil Simon, Gary Sinise, Curt Siodmak, Christian Slater, Lane Smith, Jimmy Smits, Steven Soderbergh, Elke Sommer, Aaron Sorkin, Mira Sorvino, Paul Sorvino, Kevin Spacey, James Spader, Steven Spielberg, Robert Stack, Sylvester Stallone, Terence Stamp, Barbara Steele, Mary Steenburgen, Jan Sterling, Stella Stevens, Julia Stiles, Sting, Eric Stoltz, Oliver Stone, Sharon Stone, Gloria Stuart, Donald Sutherland, D. B. Sweeney, Quentin Tarantino, Noah Taylor, Rod Taylor, Emma Thompson, J. Lee Thompson, Robert E. Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Lawrence Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Meg Tilly, Nancy Travis, John Travolta, Claire Trevor, Kathleen Turner, Joan Twekesbury, Liv Ullmann, Brenda Vaccaro, Alida Valli, Melvin Van Peebles, Jon Voight, Beverly Walken, Dee Wallace Stone, Eli Wallach, Fred Ward, Jennifer Warren, Ruth Warrick, Dionne Warwick, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Weir, Simon West, Forest Whitaker, Billy Wilder, Gene Wilder, Esther Williams, Fred Williamson, Marie Windsor, Jonathan Winters, Robert Wise, John Woo, Alfre Woodard, James Woods, Joanne Woodward, Fay Wray, Jane Wyatt, William Wyler, Yoji Yamada, Zhang Yimou, Michael York, Burt Young, Yun-Fat, Saul Zaentz, and Terry Zwigoff.
Herb Yellin was the publisher of The Lord John Press from 1977 to 2014, and as a major publisher and lover of films, had extensive contacts in the film industry.