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Novel Library (London Book/Collins), GB, 1929. Hardback burgundy boards gold gilt titles no dj 242 pages book has come fully away from boards and page edges are tanned but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Poor dj. (c.1929). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [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 style, which ages a little better on the page than the early-talkie creakiness of the film has on the screen. Illustrated with eight black-and-white stills from the M-G-M movie, which starred Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love, with the ever-popular Jed Prouty (later father… Read More

GROSSET & DUNLAP. NY 1929. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition & first photoplay edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. (Jacket would be Vg. + or better were it not for an unfortunate 5 inch tear which loops across the front cover. A few small chips at edges of front cover. 1"- inch tear at base of rear panel of jacket. ) Winner of Best Picture Oscar. .