eric knight novel (2 Ergebnisse)

Six vintage studio still color photographs from the 1954 film. With a stamp reading "Bought in Phila. / FEB 9 1954" to the verso. A farm family facing poverty is forced to sell daughter Donna's pet horse, the eponymous Gypsy Colt, unaware that the horse itself is prepared to resist the new sale, crossing deserts and mountains in order to return to Donna. Loosely based on Eric Knight's 1940 novel "Lassie Comes Home." Set in the American West and shot in Colorado and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with small strips of adhesive to the top center edge.

First Edition. First Printing, with "Copyright 1940" and no further printings noted on the copyright page. Octavo (22.25cm); publisher's yellow-orange cloth, titled in black on spine, with pictorial elements in black and white on front cover; orange topstain; map endpapers; viii,248pp, with color pictorial frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout the text by Marguerite Kirmse. Gentle sunning and faint foxing to spine, scattered foxing to topstain, with right edge of textblock lightly abraded; contents clean; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. The English author's best-known book, introducing the fictional collie Lassie. Basis for Fred M. Wilcox's 1943 film, starring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, and Elsa Lanchester. 88464.