Books from the collection of Norman Swallow, comprising: - Yutkevich (S.I, editor). Sergei Eisenstein. Izbrannye Proizvedeniya v Shesti Tomakh [Selected Works in Six Volumes, here vols 2, 3, & 4 only]. Moscow: Art, 1964-66, FIRST EDITIONS, 4to, original cloth, all very good in chipped dustjackets, the earliest volume inscribed on the half-title to Norman Swallow by Grigori Aleksandrov- Yurenev (R.) Soviet Comedy Film. Moscow: Science Publishers, 1964, FIRST EDITION, pp. 538, 8vo, original cloth with frayed dustjacket, the final gathering beginning to come away, inscribed by Grigori Aleksandrov to Norman Swallow - Maja Turowskaja & Juri Chanjutin. Sergei Jutkewitsch [Sergei Yutkevich]. Amonograph. Berlin: Henschelverlag, Der Deutsch Akademie der Künste, 1968, FIRST EDITION, pp. 52, crown 8vo, original illustrated boards, very good, inscribed in French by Sergei Yutkevich to Norman Swallow and dated 1969, with a letter to the same from Aleksandrov's grandson (and namesake) laid in- Constantine (Mildred) & Alan Fern. Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974, pp. 97, 4to, very good in illustrated boards and dustjacket, with the same provenance but not inscribed- Aleksandrov (Grigori) Gody Poiskov i Truda [The Years of Quest and Labour]. Moscow: Bureau of Soviet Art Propaganda, 1975. FIRST EDITION, pp. 85, small 4to, original wrappers a little rubbed and creased with chipping at head of backstrip, inscribed by the author to Norman Swallow- Aleksandrov (Grigori) Epokha i Kino [Epoch and Cinema]. Moscow: Politizdat, 1976, FIRST EDITION, pp. 287, crown 8vo, original illustrated boards, very good, inscribed by the author to Norman Swallow- Aleksandrov (Grigori) Le Cineaste et son Temps [The Filmmaker and his Time]. Moscow: Editions du Progrès, 1979, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, pp. 285, crown 8vo, original boards, very good in nicked and chipped dustjacket, inscribed by the author to Norman Swallow[9 Vols.]

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Norman Swallow (1921-2000) went up to Keble College, Oxford at the end of the 1930s; war service interrupted his progress, but an opportunity at the BBC came up at the right time and he quickly developed a reputation; following a stint on Panorama he transferred to Granada, where, in 1967, he marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with the documentary 'Ten Days that Shook the World' on this he collaborated with Grigori Aleksandrov, one of the most important film-makers of the Soviet era, and the co-director of Sergei Eisenstein's 'Oktober: Ten Days that Shook the World'. Aleksandrov was also involved with the two-part documentary on Eisenstein, written and produced by Swallow for the BBC's Omnibus programme in 1970.The books in this collection are mostly (in one instance, the inscription is by the equally-eminent Sergei Yutkevich) inscribed by Aleksandrov to Swallow, in each case either wishing success for or offering warm remembrance of the fruits of their collaboration, mentioning the respective films and paying continued tribute to Aleksandrov's mentor Eisenstein.