philip dunning george abbott (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition. 288pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in green on the front and the spine. Illustrated with scenes from the Jed Harris' production featuring Constance Brown. Small spot to fore edge, two faint spots to cloth. A near fine copy in good+ dustjacket with three closed tears, chipping to edges and minor loss to upper edge of rear panel. In Hubin, 1994, p. 254. ; Octavo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Bookplate of a noted collector, boards a bit soiled and worn, paper spine label tanned and nicked, a solid good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Pencil signature of Alan Campbell, screenwriter and the husband of Dorothy Parker. Jazz-age play about chorus girls, bootleggers and gangsters. The Jed Harris production was a smash hit and the basis for an inventive 1929 Carl Laemmle, Jr. film directed by Paul Fejos. Portions of this film can be seen in the colorful 1942 remake which featured an incredible performance by George Raft recalling his own days as a Jazz Age club dancer.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First Edition with publisher's device to title page and "A" to copyright page. Octavo. 236pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth spine over orange paper-covered boards with paper title labels. Chips to and a couple tears to edges of dust jacket with general wear and soiling. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy of the hit play about the New York underworld.

Vintage linen-backed keybook photograph of the famous nightclub set of the 1929 film. The photograph highlights not only the spectacular production design, but the camera crane developed by director Paul Fejos, which enabled the cumbersome cameras at the time to fluidly move at nearly every conceivable angle, and at the speed of 600 feet per minute. "DUPL NYPL" stamp and mimeo snipe on the verso, original mimeograph snipe visible through linen backing. Based on the 1926 musical by Philip Dunning and George Abbott. Lovers Ray Lane (Glenn Tryon) and Billie Moore (Merna Kennedy) are performers rehearsing at the Paradise Nightclub when they are inadvertently drawn into backstage bootlegging and murder. Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The Criterion Collection reconstructed the incomplete surviving talking version in 2012 and was included in their release of Paul Fejos' 1928 film "Lonesome." 7.5 x 10 inches. Left side has punch hole extension cut off, else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 623.