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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. Reissue. Hardcover in red cloth. 317 pp. plus 3 pp. ads at rear. carries only the 1922 copyright imprint but this edition and early reissue. Near fine, touch of wear at the extremities. In the oriignal color illustrated dust jacket, white portions somewhat embrowned, closed tear front panel and a 1/2" chip foot of spine, two smaller chips rear panel. …

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. Photoplay edition. (Fiction, Motion Pictures, Photoplay) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

dj. First Edition. First Edition. With publisher's custom advance copy notice, specific to the 1930 ABA convention in Los Angeles, affixed on the front pastedown. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper. Stories from this collection are the basis for three films from the silent era: "Children of the Dust" (1923) and "Lucky Star" (1929), both directed by Frank Borzage, the latter starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and "The First Kiss" from 1928, starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper. A superb copy of an important film source book. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Light fading at the top and bottom board edges and spine. Jacket moderately toned overall, with a 3-inch split along the front hinge fold and lightly worn spine ends. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a few small chips, the worst of them on the front panel. A novel about a nearly invincible mining engineer confronted with two very different women. Very scarce in jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Advance Review Copy with slip pasted to the front pastedown presenting the book at the Western Division Convention of the American Booksellers' Association in Los Angeles. Light sunning to the delicate green cloth, near fine in an about near fine dustwrapper, tanned at the spine and with a chip at the crown affecting a few letters of the title. Signed by the author and dated 1930. Three of the stories in this collection were the basis for notable films in the silent era. "Terwilliger" became the 1923 film *Children of the Dust*, directed by Frank Borzage. Borzage also directed *Lucky Star* with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, the 1929 film adaptation of "Three Episodes in the Life of Timothy Osborn." And the story "Four Brothers" was filmed in 1928 as *The First Kiss*, directed by Rowland Lee and starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper.…

Vintage portrait photograph of Boris Karloff by photographer Ray Jones from the 1937 film. Photograph with two studio stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Jones and one noting Karloff in Universal Pictures, with several provenance stamps, layout annotations, and paper tape also on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Boris Karloff stars as an embittered inventor of burglar alarms, who seeks vengeance on the man who stole his ideas to build his business empire. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear and creasing at the extremities. Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors 1931-1946.…