Fowler gene and meredyth bess (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition, a photoplay edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Front hinge repaired, cloth lightly stained and slightly worn at extremities, spine sunned, very good lacking the dust jacket. Text of the screenplay and photographs from the 1934 Walter Lang film with Wallace Beery in the title role and Adolphe Menjou as his pal Bailey.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition, a photoplay edition. Owner's name, foredge foxed, light wear at the spine ends, a very good copy without dustwrapper. Text of the screenplay and photographs from the 1934 Walter Lang film with Wallace Beery in the title role and Adolphe Menjou as his pal Bailey. Inscribed by the author: "For my favorite Helen Gwynn, With regards, Gene Fowler. Nov 1934.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition, a photoplay edition. A few tiny chips to the binding stamping, otherwise fine in a fine, bright dustwrapper with two small stains to the back panel. Text of the screenplay and photographs from the 1934 Walter Lang film with Wallace Beery in the title role and Adolphe Menjou as his pal Bailey. Inscribed by the author to Jimmy Starr, the gossip columnist and screenwriter (here addressed as "my buoyant companion" by Fowler).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth, titled and blocked in black and teal on spine and front panel; teal topstain; dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Topstain a bit faded, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a hint of sunning at spine and a tiny tear at base of front flap fold. The first full-length scenario for an all-talking picture in book form, illustrated throughout with black and white stills.…

First Edition. First edition. Illustrated with photographs from the movie. Touted as "the first full-length scenario for an actual talking picture production to be published in book form." If not the first screenplay to published in book form, certainly among the very earliest. INSCRIBED TO A MAJOR BOOK COLLECTOR BY FOWLER, "To that assidious and clever collector, and my friend as well, Earle Bernheimer. Gene Fowler 1947." Bernheimer was part owner of a film company and a patron of Robert Frost (he arranged over the years to pay Frost a kind of stipend for whatever he cared to send him from month to month -- be it drafts, proofs or wastebasket shavings). Illustrated with stills from the movie starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum and featuring Adolphe Menjou. Very good or better in good to very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few chips and spine a little darkened and with closed tears backed with acid free archival clear tape. Signed.…