New York, NY: Viking Press, 1944 Viking Press, New York. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition (on DJ) from 8th Printing books (on CR). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped lower tips; sunfaded area on head and tail where DJ pieces were missing; light shelfwear. DJ: Good; missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; missing small pieces along DJ top edge. Red cloth boards and spine with gilt letters in a blue shadow box on the spine; embossed title and emblem on the front board. Character drawings as endpapers. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 476 pp 8vo. Gene Fowler and actor John Barrymore were close friends. This biography of Barrymore was written in an era where private lives of celebrities were not seen as tabloid fodder and in which an author could concentrate on the important aspects of an artist's journey rather than scandal and sensationalism. Fowler met John Barrymore in 1918, when he working as a reporter for "The New York American" and Barrymore was acting in Redemption and remained a close friend up to his death in 1942 of alcoholism. From the 1920s through the 1940s, Fowler was one of the most famous journalists in America. Gene Fowler paints a portrait of Barrymore not as a wild, womanizing alcoholic who just happened to be an actor, but as an artist of real talent and significance whose life was by turns sad, funny, and tragic. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Seller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 016948
Title: Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times of John Barrymore
Author: Gene Fowler
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1944
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: acting, actor, alcoholic, Drew Family, Barrymore Family, movie actor, stage actor, Hamlet, John Drew, Maurice Barrymore, Hollywood, womanizer,
Bookseller catalogs: Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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