(Tokyo: Shin Seikatsusha and Sekai Bunko, 1946-48). Comprising the first 18 issues, numbered 1-18, of Motion Picture Library. Text in Japanese and in English. Publisher's limp printed wrappers; wear and soiling to wrappers, extremities, and spines; front wrapper of first issue starting; other scattered separations along joints; light to moderate soiling and toning to text; scattered foxing to same.

A rare and large collection of this postwar bilingual Japanese film magazine, featuring the full scripts in English and Japanese for classic American films such as Casablanca, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Tales of Manhattan, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Moontide, Rhapsody in Blue, Random Harvest, Jane Eyre, All This and Heaven Too, The Lost Weekend, The Philadelphia Story, Anna and the King of Siam, Two-Faced Woman, To Have and Have Not, The Best Years of our Lives, The Bells of St. Mary's, Arsenic and Old Lace, and State Fair.