Moon lorna (19 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 10976990. 1789923932. 9/20/2026 5:05:32 PM.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 5" x 7-5/8", 218pp incl. prelims. Sewn binding in green buckram cloth boards with title block stamped in gilt on spine. Missing jacket. Cover is moderately worn, and the spine is faded / discolored. There are a few moisture droplet stains at the foot of the front cover. Corners and ends of spine are bumped. Binding is cocked, but remains sound and strong. End papers are yellowed. Previous owner's initials in ink on front free end paper. Page 78 has a large "X" in heavy pencil across the text block. Pages are otherwise age toned but clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 158 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Red. First Printing. 1925. Wear, Lettering Clear But Areas Of Damp Staining To Covers, Small Frays At Spine Ends, Small Area Damp Staining In Upper Corner Of Front Endpapers P. 30. No Marks. Lorna Moon ( Nora Helen Wilson Low; 1886 -1930) Was A Scottish Author And Screenwriter From The Early Days Of Hollywood. She Was The Daughter Of Plasterer Charles Low And Margaret Benzies (1863-1945), A Socialist And Avowed Atheist. In 1907 She Met William Hebditch, A Commercial Traveller ; The Two Were Secretly Married In Aberdeen And Shortly After The Couple Left Scotland For Alberta In Canada, Where Lorna Moon Gave Birth To Her First Child. In 1913 She Left Hebditch And Fell In With Walter Moon, With Whom She Had A Child, Mary Leonore Moon (1914-1978). She And Walter Traveled To Winnipeg, Where She Began Working As A Journalist And Where She Adopted A Pen-Name Closer To Her Literary Inspiration, Lorna Doone. In 1920, Moon Sent Director Cecil B. Demille A Critique Of His Film Male And Female (1920) In Which She "Razzed Him Wickedly". She Went On To Train With Demille At Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount Film Corporation, Which Later Became Paramount Pictures. In The Early 1920S, Moon Suffered From Tuberculosis And Wrote Short Stories And Plays From Bed Before Returning To Work In 1926. Her Screen Credits Include The Affairs Of Anatol (1921), Don't Tell Everything (1921), Her Husband's Trademark (1922), Too Much Wife (1922), Upstage (1926), After Midnight (1927), Women Love Diamonds (1927), Mr. Wu (1927), And Love (1927). Love Was One Of Mgm's Highest-Earning Films Of 1927 And Was Considered A Blockbuster, Earning Mgm $946,000 Domestically And An Additional $731,000 Internationally. During Her Career In Hollywood She Had A Third Child By Cecil B. Demille'S Brother William. This Child, Richard, Grew Up Unaware Of His Mother'S Identity; In Later Years He Discovered His Parentage And Wrote The Memoir My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon. Her Literary Works Include Doorways In Drumorty (1925), A Collection Of Short Stories Set In A Fictional Scottish Town. The Location And Characters Were Drawn From Her Memories Of Strichen, Much To The Indignation Of Certain Of The Townspeople, And Her Work Was Banned From The Local Library. In 1929, Moon's Novel Dark Star Was Released And Reached The Bestseller List. The Novel Was Later Adapted By Frances Marion Into The 1930 Film Min And Bill, Starring Marie Dressler And Wallace Berry. Min And Bill Is Generally Thought To Have Revived Dressler's Career. The Collected Works Of Lorna Moon, Edited By Glenda Norquay, Was Published In 2002. In 2008 A Plaque Commemorating Lorna Moon Was Unveiled In Strichen. In 2010 A Stage Play, Based On The Stories In Doorways In Drumorty, Was Written By Mike Gibb And Performed Around Scotland By Red Rag Theatre. Further Major Scottish Tours Were Staged By Red Rag In 2011 And By Awkward Stranger 2019. Playwright And Author Mike Gibb Also Wrote Drumorty Revisited, A Follow Up To Lorna Moon's Doorways In Drumorty, Which Was Published By Hame Press In 2019. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 2002. xxiii, 280pp. The book is excellent condition with no inscriptions. The contents are tight and clean. "For the first time, The Collected Lorna Moon brings together her much acclaimed novel Dark Star, collected short stories Doorways in Drumorty, and a selection of her previously unpublished letters and poetry to offer a fresh perspective on this unusual woman: a woman who travelled a long distance from Scotland and yet, imaginatively, took Scotland with her and re-fashioned the experiences of her early years. The life story of Lorna Moon from her escape from Scotland, a series of romantic adventures, to a career as a script writer in the early days of Hollywood, presents the wildest challenge to our expectations for a woman in rural Scotland in the early twentieth century. Her writing, in equally dramatic fashion, takes the conventional subject of Scottish small-town life, and reshapes it through a combination of satirical analysis and melodramatic romance that no other writer from the north-east has achieved. The Collected Lorna Moon is an enchanting collection, edited and introduced by Glenda Norquay, scholar of Scottish fiction and featuring a foreword by Richard de Mille, the illegitimate son of Lorna Moon and Hollywood director Cecil B. de Mille's son William, in order to provide insight into the life of an extraordinary woman.".…

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The Collected Lorna Moon This book is in good or better condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages will be missing from the book. The spine of the book is still in great condition and the front cover is generally unmarked. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Shipping is normally same day from our UK warehouse. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 288 pages (complete). A comfortable copy. This was Moon's first major success. However, the downside was that the book was banned in her birth-town of Strichen, in Aberdeenshire where it was thought the character were too closely aligned to the inhabitants! The boards have scuffing, wear, marks. They are comfortable and steady. The contents are assured. The frontis and end pages have foxing and tanning from age. In general, and by far, the contents are most pleasing. They are creamy, clean, clear, contented, confident, convivial. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [modest shelfwear, age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's name printed neatly on front endpaper; contemporary newspaper clipping about the author's death laid in at the rear of the book SIGNED on the tipped-in limitation page by the author, this being copy no. 271 of the limited/numbered edition. The author's first (and only) novel, a tale set in Scotland (Moon's birthplace) about the travails of a girl born under the cloud of uncertain patrimony, was the source for the hit 1930 film MIN AND BILL (although the focus of the movie was shifted to the protagonist's grandmother, played by Marie Dressler). The adaptation was co-written by one of M-G-M's top screenwriters, Frances Marion, who was a close friend of Moon's and to whom the novel is dedicated. (Moon herself did some screenwriting in the 1920s at Famous Players-Lasky and M-G-M, although the description of her on her Wikipedia page as "one of the earliest and most successful female screenwriters" seems a bit of an embellishment.) The book was a critical sucess and a best-seller, but Moon unfortunately didn't live to also experience the success of the movie: she died of tuberculosis in May 1930, about six months before its release. Many years later, it was revealed to Richard de Mille, the son of William C. de Mille (director Cecil's older brother), that Moon was his birth mother, the product of her affair with his father; he subsequently wrote a book about it, entitled "My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon." NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good Plus. First Edition. Inscribed by author on first end paper, hinge cracked at half title page, side edge papers foxed, occasional spots and stains, photos available. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. First Edition. Copy 67 of 100, signed by Lorna Moon on the limitation page. Also signed by actress and screenwriter Mary Pickford and screenwriter and director Frances Marion on the limitation page. Lacking dust jacket. Cover shows minor wear and tanning. newspaper clipping portrait of Moon affixed to the front free endpaper. Pages are tanned and clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Corners rubbed, else a very good or better copy lacking the dust jacket. Copy number 11 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author, as well as additionally Signed on the limitation page by actress Mary Pickford, and by the book's dedicatee, Frances Marion. Author's first book, basis for the George Hill film *Min and Bill*, with a screenplay by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson and featuring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in their first foray as an unlikely romantic duo. Dressler won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Min over fellow nominees Irene Dunne, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, and Ann Harding. The Dressler-Beery partnership proved so appealing that they were reunited three years later in both *Tugboat Annie* and *Dinner at Eight*. Lorna Moon bore a son out of wedlock to director William DeMille, with the child being raised by Cecil B. DeMille. After the child was born, Moon was in dire straits and her close friends Marion and Pickford helped to get the book published, and successfully pushed to have the film made, although Moon died soon afterward.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Slight crease on the spine else fine in a nice, very good plus, spine-faded dust jacket with some rubbing at the extremities. The author's first book, basis for the George Hill film *Min and Bill*, with a screenplay by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson and featuring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in their first foray as an unlikely romantic duo. Dressler won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Min over fellow nominees Irene Dunne, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, and Ann Harding. The Dressler-Beery partnership proved so appealing that they were reunited three years later in both *Tugboat Annie* and *Dinner at Eight*. Lorna Moon bore a son out of wedlock to director William DeMille, with the child being raised by Cecil B. DeMille. After the child was born, Moon was in dire straits and her close friends Frances Marion and Mary Pickford helped to get the book published, and successfully pushed to have the film made, although Moon died soon afterward. Extremely uncommon.…

Two vintage oversize reference photographs from the 1930 film, one showing actors Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler, and one showing Dressler alone. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Lorna Moon's 1929 novel. A beleaguered dockside innkeeper (Dressler) tries to protect and raise her young adopted daughter, while loving and frequently fighting with an alcoholic fisherman (Beery) who resides at the inn. A wildly successful, sharp drama co-written by two successful female screenwriters at the height of their careers, Frances Marion and Marion Jackson. 10 x 13 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned and slightly wavy.…

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jean Hersholt, a great artist, from the author of this book, Lorna Moon". With the bookplate of the Motion Picture Country House tipped-in above the inscription and two MPCH ink stamps to the front pastedown. The author, Nora Low, grew up in Aberdeenshire but eventually moved to the US and became a Hollywood screenwriter, working on a number of hits in the 1920s, including Mr. Wu starring Lon Chaney, Don't Tell Everything (1921) starring Gloria Swanson, and Her Husband's Trademark (1922), with Gloria Swanson and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Love (1927), and Anna Karenina starring Greta Garbo. She also wrote two semi-autobiographical literary works: the short story collection Doorways in Drumorty, (1925), and the present novel, Dark Star (1929), which was adapted as the film Min and Bill in 1930. Both were based on her childhood in a small, inward looking town in Scotland and explore similar themes including "the particular codes and conventions created by such a closed community, patterns of surveillance, strictures of public morality, evidence of private despair. They engage with the margins of this world, presenting itinerants, outcasts, and misfits with a distinct lack of sentimentality. Low's work is also striking in its awareness of the position of women in the community: her stories deal with minutiae, with networks of power which operate in apparently insignificant areas" (ODNB). Though Hersholt, one of the leading Hollywood actors of the early 20th century, never appeared in a film written by Low, the two may have been acquainted either socially or professionally. The bookplate records that this copy was donated by Hersholt to the Motion Picture Country House, a retirement community for Hollywood figures that, as president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, he was instrumental in founding in 1940. A lovely copy, uncommon in such nice condition, with an excellent association. Octavo. Original black cloth, white cloth backstrip, titles to spine in black and red, red top-stain. With dust jacket. A little pale spotting to boards, top stain faded. An excellent copy in the jacket with faded spine panel, a few minor nicks, and a short closed tear to the lower panel.…

First UK edition, first impression. It was first published in the US earlier the same year. From the publisher's archive, with their stamp to the title page. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in black and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges lightly foxed; an excellent copy in the jacket with some shallow chips and nicks to extremities.…