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Lewton, Val The Rogue Song [Photoplay Edition]
New York A.L. Burt Company (c.1930) First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Good+ dj
[spine turned, otherwise just a lightly shelfworn book, with a tiny bit of deterioration to the binding at base of spine, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows wear at corners and along top edge, light creasing near top of front panel, a few tiny edge-tears]. (4 B&W film stills) Novelization, by future B-movie horror maven Val Lewton, of this musical "Romance of the Georgian Hills," an M-G-M two-strip Technicolor extravaganza which marked the film debut of erstwhile Metropolitan Opera baritone (and handsome devil) Lawrence Tibbett -- and quite possibly the apex of his screen career, although he went on to star in five more films before calling it a day. The film is remembered today mostly for two things: (a) being "lost," except for a short sequence; and (b) the appearance, in comic-relief support, of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Alas, the makers of this Photoplay Edition obviously didn't consider the presence of The Boys such a big deal, as none of the four stills in the text depict them. (Nor does the text itself contain an attempt at "novelizing" their comic business -- in fact, their characters don't show up at all -- which might be just as well.)
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75.00 USD
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Lewton, Val Yearly Lease
New York Triangle Books 1948 (c.1932) Reprint Hardcover Very Good+
(laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket) [solid copy with light external soiling, much less wear than often seen on these cheap editions; minor laminate puckering here and there, typical light browning to page edges, one tiny tear at top of title page, one-time owner information in pencil on inside front cover]. Reprint edition of one of several pulp novels published by Lewton early in his career, this one about a woman who takes refuge from "twenty years of insecurity and reckless living" in the big city (New York) in a small apartment building in a small village -- oddly, a building that had been built by her father, as a gift for her mother, years before. The trials and tribulations of the building's many denizens -- the striving young writer and his pregnant wife, the woman whose competition for boyfriends was her own mother, the retired actress, etc. -- fuel the book's narrative.
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50.00 USD
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