Great, widely unknown photobook, showing the best pictures by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau from Berlin, from America and from South Pacific. "Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888-1931) is one of the most important international directors of early film. He achieved world fame as early as 1922 in Berlin with Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror. Murnau was one of the first German directors to successfully continue his career in Hollywood long before Hitler forced him to emigrate. There he made the film Sunrise in 1927, which won three Oscars." (from the publisher) New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Schirmer and Mosel, Munich. 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. 240 x 280 mm. 100 pages. Photos: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. With texts by Werner Sudendorf, Rainer Rother and Ruth Landshoff-Yorck. Text in German. Great photobook - in perfect condition. "In 1931 he was killed in a car accident on the Santa Barbara coast road. Greta Garbo had his death mask removed and was one of the few to attend his funeral service. In collaboration with the estate of the artist, who never made a secret of his homosexuality, we are publishing images from Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's private photo album for the first time. The photographs, most of which he took himself, show travel impressions, film work and relaxed holiday situations aboard his sailing boats and yachts between Berlin and Hollywood between 1924 and 1930 and in the South Seas, where he shot his last film Tabu in Tahiti. The volume accompanies an exhibition next autumn at the Gay Museum in Berlin." (from the publisher)