[pretty beat-up, with heavy external wear (covers edgeworn/creased, small piece missing at bottom front corner, etc.), tears in title page and first page of text, bottom inch or so of spine covering missing, etc.]. (Popular Plays and Screen Library) Series (B&W photographs) A cheaper version of the popular "Photoplay Editions" issued mostly by Grosset & Dunlap and A.L. Burt, this is a novelization of the 1926 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Clive Brook. Illustrated with a whopping TWO stills from the film, plus small portraits of the six principal ac... View More...
[nice clean book, just a touch of deterioration to cloth at base of spine; the jacket has a number of small tears and some shallow chipping along the top edge (including about 3/8" paper loss at top of spine), some surface abrasions at base of spine]. (4 B&W film stills) Comic novel about a young professor of Latin who "finds himself charged with showing the town -- New York -- to three women of widely different types": a rich young (but dowdy) widow; a 19-year-old millionairess; and his former college sweetheart who's run away from her husband. Basis for the 1925 Universal silent feature st... View More...
[solid copy, moderate wear at extremities, top edge dust-darkened; jacket has some paper loss at top of spine (extending slightly into front panel and affecting top part of "POTASH" in title on spine), small chip at base of spine, also a somewhat ragged tear at bottom front hinge, extending a bit onto the front panel]. (B&W photographs) The archetypal bickering Jewish business partners, "Potash and Perlmutter" first appeared on stage in 1913, with Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr essaying the roles, then reprising them in several sequels. Bernard appeared in just one film as... View More...
[light shelfwear, a nice solid book; jacket has tiny tears and minor paper loss at spine ends, one small chip at bottom of front panel]. (8 B&W film stills, pen & ink drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by Diana Serra Cary, "Baby Peggy," star of the 1924 silent film for which this edition of the book was a tie-in. Ms. Cary, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 101, signed the book in 2000 -- 76 years after the original release of the film, in which she starred as one of the two mischievous children (a sister and brother in the story, but both girls in the film) who are plac... View More...
(no dust jacket) [light wear at extremities, a bit of soiling to page edges, one-time owner's pencil name and date on ffep]. (frontispiece, two B&W film stills) A farcical comedy of manners by the noted screenwriter and playwright, the basis for the 1926 M-G-M film of the same name starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle, for which this is the tie-in. This is the earliest published book credited to Herbert, and appears to have been initially (or perhaps only) published as a novel, rather than the play on which the movie was claimed to have been based. (There is also no indication that a pla... View More...
[hinges weak (cracked but not separated), nasty pull-tear in page 125 (no loss of text), otherwise reasonably clean and sound; jacket edgeworn and age-toned, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, small chip at top of front panel (affecting two letters of the title)]. (8 B&W photographic plates) According to the rear jacket panel, this film was "produced both as a feature production and as a ten-chapter Pathé-serial -- but this may well be a spurious claim, as none of the standard silent-film reference sources turn up any reference to a feature version. In any event, it's obvious that the pr... View More...
[minor wear at extremities, light dampstain surrounding base of spine; jacket heavily worn, with a big chunk missing from top of front panel, plus various tears, scrapes and whatnot]. (8 B&W film stills) Photoplay Edition (and true first edition, a G&D original), a novelization of the backstage musical film that won the year's Academy Award as Best Picture. Depicting a thinly-veiled Ziegfeld Follies (the book's impresario is named "Joseph Zanfield," changed to "Francis Zanfield" in the film), this version of the yarn benefits from author Lait's breezy, proto-hardboiled prose st... View More...
[book a little shelfworn, but binding intact (more than one usually finds with these cheaply-produced volumes), one-time owner's signature and date on ffep; the jacket is mostly complete but is in three pieces, held together only by the mylar jacket cover]. (Warner Bros. Classics of the Screen) Series Novelization of the 1926 film starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor, the first full-length feature presented in Vitaphone -- in this instance used only to provide a synchronized musical score and sound effects, not yet spoken dialogue (that would have to wait about another year, for the appeara... View More...
[light wear to cloth at top and bottom of book, faint dampstain on bottom edge of text block; jacket a bit edgeworn, slight paper loss at lower spine extremities, a ragged closed tear (almost invisible) extending from the top rear hinge across the spine to about two inches from the top of the front hinge]. (6 sepia-toned stills, plus 2 on endpapers) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the verso of the frontispiece illustration: "Inscribed with / great pleasure for / Miss Bebe Daniels / Booth Tarkington / May 1924"; and additionally SIGNED by Bebe Daniels herself, in pencil, on the ffep. The... View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice bright copy, minor soiling to covers, faint vertical pucker in front cover (like it had been slightly bent at some point), light bumping to bottom corners]. (B&W photographs) A Grosset & Dunlap original (i.e., a true first edition), a novelization of the Josef von Sternberg film which starred Marlene Dietrich as an Austrian spy during World War I. Illustrated by six stills from the film, two of which are double-page spreads -- quite unusual for a G&D photoplay edition. View More...
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