This is an amazing volume of Ken Adam's sketches,paintings, and drawings done all for various motion pictures-both made and unmade over his career. Included are some previously unseen concept sketches for all seven of his James Bond outings and some really rarely seen sketches for the first pass at the first STAR TREK movie in 1977. He's got a free-flowing, angular style of working and the energy is all there and you see how this is translated into the film. Especially rare to see are his sketches for DR STRANGELOVE(A gatefold of "The Big Board!") and BARRY LYNDON, both Kubrick films, because Kubrick was notorious for often burning every prop,blueprint and such, or hiding them well, so no one could use them to copy from them. Lots of other good stuff too, like his early work on CURSE OF THE DEMON(1957).
A good book that's not only informative but its a slice of cinema history.