macpherson macmahon (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Possible first edition thus with no additional printings listed, 1927. Photoplay illustrated edition based on Cecil B. De Mille's 1927 silent film of the same title.Tightly bound in light brown cloth with fine, unmarked contents. The dust jacket shows light edge wear, remains near fine. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original burgundy gilt decorated boards, 252 printed pages. Bumped to the boards, usual browning to the pages. The dust jacket has some edge wear.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Photoplay edition. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay. Octavo, brown cloth covers stamped in blue. Gift inscription (non-authorial) to former owner. 257 pages + 7 pages of publisher's ads. Black and white illustrations. Dust jacket has large chip missing from front top corner, otherwise complete. 082504B Christianity, Religion, Movies, Films.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, vi, viii, 256 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial black and green with red lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including light soiling, sunning and few instances of chipping to the head/tail edges. Boards have slight wear including some rubbing wear to the head/tail edges and few, tiny white spots and faint damp staining to the rear. Slight tilt to the spine. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay, motion picture. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N, ND-N. 1388079. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. First Edition. [a tight clean copy, minor wear to base of spine, light dust-darkening to top of text block; the jacket is quite nice-looking, with only minor wear to the edges and extremities, but unfortunately with a small pinky-sized piece torn out of the bottom edge of the rear panel and some associated creasing/tearing at that place, plus a short closed tear and associated crease at the top of the front panel, and a couple of small internal tape repairs]. (12 B&W film stills) Photoplay Edition issued in conjunction with the release of Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic -- and because it was a DeMille production, of course they wouldn't be satisifed with the typical four stills from the movie to illustrate the text, nor even with the eight stills that were sometimes deployed if the movie was "important" enough. OH no, this volume had to boast TWELVE stills. The publisher's brief Foreword to the book is equally over the top, making various grandiose and implausible claims, such as that he "his final determination to make the Picture [love that capital P!] came only after he had discussed the subject with leaders of public sentiment, savants and scholars, and obtained the cooperation of all the cinema companies," to produce "the greatest cooperative effort the united motion picture industry has yet achieved, [with] the technical and architectural resources of every great California studio being placed at the Producer's disposal, and eminent actors from many companies vying for parts." And if you really believe that "twenty-five hundred authorities were consulted in research" for the picture, then, well, I've got a few fragments of the True Cross left here in stock, which can be had for a very reasonable price. (It's interesting, too, to note the allocation of writing credit: Jeanie Macpherson wrote the film's scenario, and the book is acknowledged as an adaptation of that scenario, and she gets top billing book's spine, front cover, and dust jacket -- but the title page actually reads "by Henry MacMahon and Jeanie Macpherson." The exact nature of Macpherson's long collaboration with DeMille -- she received writing credit on several dozen of his productions between 1915 and 1930, and is known to have been one of his several mistresses) -- is still a subject of controversy and interpretation among film scholars. But who the heck was Henry MacMahon?).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. None (illustrator). A scarce illustrated edition of this popular work, with the particularly scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK illustrated edition, first published in the US in 1924. A charming photoplay edition. Illustrated with eight scenes from the Paramount Film of the same name, released in 1923. Scarce, particularly in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Undated, dated from copies held at the National Library of Scotland. The Ten Commandments is a religious epic, drawing parallels with the original Exodus story and two brothers and their twentieth century view on the Biblical story. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart with minor damp staining to the lower front board. Contemporary ink inscription to front pastedown and bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Offsetting to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper is sound with chipping, and closed tear to the extremities. Light tidemarks to extremities of the reverse of the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. book.