351. The Salamander. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1924].
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture, The Enemy Sex, starring Betty Compson. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at spine ends. Item #22768
Photoplays
352. The Salamander. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. [1924].
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture, The Enemy Sex, starring Betty Compson. Very Good in Good plus dustjacket, nickel sized chip at lower spine end and top front panel, top spine end chipped, few closed tears and signs of general wear, still passable dustjacket for this very uncommon photoplay. Item #11469
353. Limpy When a Feller Needs a Friend. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1932].
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture starring Jackie Cooper and Charles 'Chic' Sale. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Good, some discoloration to cloth, most pages with very light stain at top page edge, in nearly Very Good dustjacket. Item #35376
354. Limpy" When a Feller Needs a Friend. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. [1932].
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture starring Jackie Cooper and Charles 'Chic' Sale. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Near Fine, possibly lacking front free end paper, in Very Good plus dustjacket, closed tear and crease lines at lower spine end, some minor edge wear. Item #12045
355. This Island Earth. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, (1952).
Book Club Edition (with green boards rather than cloth) but in First Photoplay Edition dustjacket with $3.00 price at front flap and plug for the "Universal International Technicolor Film" at front jacket panel and jacket artwork illustrating scenes from the film. Not published with stills. One of the great science fiction films of the 1950's. Uncommon in this format. Near Fine but for some foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, nicked at spine ends and flap corners, some foxing to flaps, a bit darker foxing to edges of rear flap. Item #27507
356. City For Conquest. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, (1936).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers Motion Picture starring Ann Sheridan and James Cagney, at front dustjacket panel and at spine. Novel of the “millionaires and mannequins, slums and immigrants, wops and cops, dancers, boxers, blackmailers, pirates and plodders, lovers and haters and just people” of New York between 1907 and 1927, “between two panics.” Near Fine in an attractive price-clipped dustjacket, few nicks, else Near Fine. Item #19981
357. Arizona. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1939).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes at dustjacket panels from the 1941 Columbia picture starring Jean Arthur and William Holden. Uncommon photoplay. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41086
358. The Road to Ruin. Hollywood: Cliff Broughton Productions. (1928).
First Edition, First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the film directed by Norton S. Parker and starring Helen Foster, Virginia Roye and Grant Withers. Original printed and illustrated wrappers, 48 numbered pages, digest size, stapled spine. Obscure photoplay edition for this film restricted to those of the age of eighteen or over, which tells the story of a delinquent girl whose involvement in sex, strip poker and petting parties results in her pregnancy and subsequent abortion. The book publishes the short story and includes stills from the film. Scarce title which would later be remade into a talking film in 1934 starring, once again, Helen Foster. Very Good, short split at top spine edge, few tiny edge nicks. Item #13671
359. The Slave Ship. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1933).
First Photoplay edition, with dustjacket plug for the 20th Century Fox production, contains no stills. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips at spine ends, modest shelf wear. Item #18476
360. Common Clay. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [1930].
True First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Fox Movietone film starring Constance Bennett. Hal Payte dustjacket art. Novelized by D. Torbett from Kinkead's play of a young woman's plight to redeem herself after "going astray". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #39829
361. The Light that Failed. New York: A. L. Burt Company, (1923).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with black and white scenes from the Paramount Pictures film starring Jacqueline Logan and Percy Marmont. Very scarce photoplay edition, lovely dustjacket. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, some rubbing along top edge, few small nicks and short closed tears. Item #18495
362. The Light that Failed. New York: A. L. Burt Company, (1923).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with black and white scenes from the Paramount Pictures film starring Jacqueline Logan and Percy Marmont. Very scarce photoplay edition in dustjacket. Very Good, tiny cloth tear at top spine end in a Very Good dustjacket, small chips at top spine area, abrasion at mid spine and lower spine end obscuring publisher. Item #35009
363. The Lion and The Mouse. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. [1928].
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers film starring May Mcavoy and Lionel Barrymore. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, spine lightly darkened. Item #9323
364. The Cabin in the Cotton. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1931).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the First National and Vitaphone Production starring Richard Barthelmess. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Story of a man “born to poverty among the poor whites of a Southern plantation but raised to a position of trust as a protégé of a rich planter,” and eventually torn between conflicting loyalties. Near Fine in an Almost Near Fine dustjacket, but for spine and white of rear panel bit discolored, corners and spine ends with short tears and tiny nicks. Item #19875
365. Love’s Great Mistake. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1927).
First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art. Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture starring Evelyn Brent, William Powell, and James Hall. Story of an innocent girl from Pennsylvania who moved to New York to work for a millionaire banker, and the troubles with love and scandal she soon encountered. Near Fine, short gift inscription, mildly bumped at top front cover, in a Very Good to Near Fine attractive dustjacket, few tiny edge nicks. Item #21880
366. Plaster Saints. New York: Macaulay Company, [1924].
Possible First Edition as well as First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Pathe film starring Betty Blythe and Lowell Sherman. Heiress cut off from her money and family turns to the stage. "If her gleaming bare shoulders, her white breast and throat rendered her chances of success any greater, why should she not take advantage of them? Had not she and the girls of her set always marketed themselves in like fashion before society men?" Uncommon title. Near Fine, small contemporary inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #25861
367. The Broadway Melody. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1929).
First Photoplay Edition, True First Printing of this novelization from the film scenario by Edmund Goulding. Skrenda dustjacket art. Illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love. Very Good tight copy with noticable cocking, in Very Good plus colorful dustjacket, short closed tear and small chip at top spine end. . Item #7622
368. The Broadway Melody. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1929).
First Photoplay Edition, True First Printing of this novelization from the film scenario by Edmund Goulding. Skrenda dustjacket art. Illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love. Very Good to Near Fine, one still loose, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few inch closed tear at lower spine end. Item #16815
369. The Beast of the City. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1932).
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed by Charles Brabin, starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, and Wallace Ford. A pre-code gangster film. Adapted from the original motion picture story of W.R. Burnett. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, couple of inch long closed tears at front panel edges, publisher's "remainder Stock" stamp at front panel, modest shelf wear. Item #26382
370. Jungle Menace, Starring Frank Buck. New York: Cupples and Leon Company, (1937).
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Columbia Picture starring Frank Buck. Near Fine, some foxing, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few edge nicks and wear. Item #17060
371. The Power of the Borgias. London: Odhams Press Limited, (1920).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with eight stills from [we presume] the Italian black and white silent film directed by Luigi Caramba and starring Americo De Giorgio and Carmen Di Sangiusto. An extremely uncommon photoplay edition to be found in original illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine firmly bound volume in Very Good dustjacket with modest edge wear. Item #21118
372. The Children's Blue Bird. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, (1940).
First English Photoplay Edition, Sixth Edition overall, illustrated with color scene from the 20th Century Fox film 'The Blue Bird' at front jacket panel, starring Shirley Temple and Johnny Russell. A very uncommon photoplay edition. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, shallow edge chips, light soiling to white panels. Item #21983
373. Miss Barrett's Elopement. New York: Henry Holt and Co., (1930).
First Edition. Herbert E. Fouts dustjacket art. Basis for the 1934 film Barretts of Wimpole Street starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton. Romantic novel of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners, colors at spine faded. Item #31422
374. Trader Horn. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1927).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the M-G-M production directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Louis Fancher dustjacket art. Photoplay Edition for the film about the great African adventurer, Alfred Aloysius Horn. Near Fine, contemporary address at front free endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow spine end chipping. Item #9643
375. Trader Horn. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1927).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the M-G-M production directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Louis Fancher dustjacket art. Photoplay Edition for the film about the great African adventurer, Alfred Aloysius Horn. Near Fine in Near Fine crisp and bright dustjacket with just a tiny area of wear at top front panel. Item #20239
