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Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1937 film. Based on George Gershwin and Sigmund Romberg's 1928 musical of the same name. A young princess and a West Point cadet fall in love. Although the play on which the film is based was also a musical, an entirely new score was written for the film. Gershwin was originally suppose to compose the score for the film as well, but Cole Porter eventually completed the task. Shot on location in California and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition; Early Printing. Lending library stamps, peel on front paste-down, front free endpaper removed, light tone, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover.; English title: Chinese Dust. "In the tangled lives of the beautiful déclassée Russian, Shura Danilova, and of the three men who loved her is all the passion and beauty of a great love story, the tense excitement of high adventure." Novel of life in the China treaty ports, written by "a young Englishman who has been in the British Civil Service and from many years in China has acquired an intimate knowledge of the white man's life in the East." - The Writer; Volume 45; Page 318. This novel triggered Helen Foster Snow, the young American college drop-out who "writing under the alias of "Nym Wales" . built a legacy of activism and fearless journalism reporting from China throughout the 1930s" and married Edgar Snow, the longtime American journalist in China. Her Shanghai experience of racist British imperialism led her to publish an article in the China Weekly Review publicly attacking this attitude. "The trigger of this public "declaration of war on the British" was a 1932 novel by a British author, J Van Dyke, Chinese Dust. The novel described a small European community in Southern China, in which a missionary strangled a rickshaw man to death. . Helen Snow was amazed by such blaring racism in a book published by a "supposedly reputable" press in London. She termed the attitude reflected in the novel as "the Sinophobiac treaty-port 'die-hard' in China," and claimed it moved her to deep contemplation on the subject of the die-hards." - Emory University thesis: Expressions of the Life that is within Us : Epistolary Practice of American Women in Republican China; Haipeng Zhou; page 212. An early American printing of this uncommon novel of the "exotic orient" that also captures the casual racism of British expatriates in treaty China. ; Ex-Library; 325 pages.

Zustand: Good. Heliogravure of original etching on laid paper. 31 x 22 cm (sheet). Very Good, a few specks of foxing, toning along sheet edges.

Zustand: Good. Heliogravure of original etching on laid paper. 31 x 21.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, a few specks of foxing, toning along sheet edges.

Vintage photographs of director W.S. Van Dyke instructing a bleacher full of young women, including stars Eleanor Powell and Ilona Massey, on the set of the 1937 musical film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway musical, about a West Point cadet who falls for a Vasser student who just happens to be a princess in disguise, with most of the original songs by George and Ira Gershwin replaced with new material by Cole Porter, including the classic "In the Still of the Night." 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical.

Photogravures. 1 vols. Folio. Photogravures. 1 vols. Folio. Van Dyke greatly influenced the development of English portrait painting. With Beautiful Plates. Original half parchment binding. Lower half of spine separating, rubbed, some soiling, some spotting of fore-edge and browning of protective tissues but otherwise interior appears clean and sound.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film, showing an elaborate musical sequence, with actress Eleanor Powell perched on an oversized drum at the stage's nexus. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1928 Broadway play by Guy Bolton, about a West Point football star who falls in love with a princess in disguise. Written by Cole Porter, the drum sequence featured in the photograph on offer was one of the largest musical sequences ever set to celluloid at the time of the film's release. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical.