Item #22552 The Strangers' Banquet. Donn BYRNE.

The Strangers' Banquet. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1922].

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Marshall Neilan and Goldwyn Production starring Hobart Bosworth and Eleanor Boardman. Rare labor and shipbuilding themed photoplay novel. "Derith, who is her brother's superior in mind and will, takes the chief responsibility and to her falls the struggle to manage the great shipyard and stem the rising tide of labor discontent stirred up by an I. W. W. agitator who preached social revolution as the prophets of old preached holy wars. John marries a beautiful, greedy, utterly shallow girl, who caring only to spend money, flitted moth-like to the glitter of Broadway to fall broken in the flame." Near Fine in Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at mid front flap edge, closed tears at flap and spine edges mended at verso with archival tape, light stain to rear flap edge.

Price: $150.00

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