With a Fine Black & White Inscribed Photograph of Federico Fellini FELLINI, Federico. Fellini's Films. The four hundred most memorable stills from Federico Fellini's fifteen and a half films. Edited by Christian Strich. With a Foreword by Georges Simenon. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. First edition. Large quarto (13 x 10 5/8 inches; 330 x 270 mm.). [1-344] pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Publishers red cloth over boards, front cover and spine lettered in black, black endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with three inch tape repair to front panel, crease to rear panel, light chipping to extremities. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Affixed to the front free endpaper is a 9 14/ x 7 1/8 inch black & white photograph of Fellini inscribed "To Paul R. Palmer. Good luck! Federico Fellini June 73". Federico Fellini (1920-1993) was an Italian filmmaker. He is known for his distinctive style, which blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. His films have ranked highly in critical polls such as that of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound, which lists his 1963 film 8 1 2 as the 10th-greatest film. Fellini's best-known films include I vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Fellini Satyricon (1969), Roma (1972), Amarcord (1973), and Fellini's Casanova (1976).