London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1926 Paramount film, "Old Ironsides," about the USS Constitution and its efforts to combat the Barbary pirates, directed by James Cruze, and starring Charles Farrell and Esther Ralston. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing, small tear to the rear pastedown. Jacket with.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1731. Scarce in jacket. Basis for the 1926 German film, directed by Arthur Robinson and starring Lya De Putti, the first of seven adaptations of the novel, the most recent being in 2013. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is.....
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Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1961. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "Pour Dominique Aury / avec toute mon amitie / Alain Robbe-Grillet." ("For Dominique Aury / with all my friendship / Alain Robbe-Grillet."). Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Text in French. Screenplay for the 1961 film, Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais, and.....
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1963. Early printing, with ads for books published as late as 1967 on the front flap. French photoplay edition of "L'Immortelle" (1963), the directorial debut of novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. After writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" (1961) Robbe-Grillet was offered the opportunity to direct a film by producer Samy.....
London: The Readers Library, 1932. First UK Photoplay Edition, Based on the 1932 film, directed by Walter Forde, and starring Muriel Aked, Joan Berry, and Donald Calthrop, a tale of trains, stolen art, and espionage, and often regarded as a one of the earliest "spy" films. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light foxing, light rubbing to.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First UK Photoplay edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 Academy Award-nominated silent film, directed by King Vidor, and starring Eleanor Boardman and James Murray. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Slight lean, spine slightly faded. Jacket with a few short tears, rubbing.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition. Basis for the 1926 silent film about an aristocratic young women who falls prey to blackmail, directed by Edward Sloman, and starring Laura La Plante and James Kirkwood. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Contemporary owner name and date in holograph ink on the.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Fanny Brice, Guinn Williams, and Edna Murphy. The screen debut of Brice, after a long career on stage, mostly as a performer in Ziegfeld Follies. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 film, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien, which parallels the biblical story of the Great Flood with one set during the outbreak of World War I. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1928. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Now considered lost. Basis for the 1928 silent film about real life French stage actress, Rachel, directed by Rowland V. Lee, and starring Pola Negri and Nils Asther. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket.....
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Sao Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1935. First Portuguese photoplay edition of the 1929 E. Barrington book "The Laughing Queen: A Romance of Cleopatra," translated by Monteiro Lobato, for the Brazilian release of the 1934 US film. INSCRIBED "To Mr. Cecil B DeMille / With kindest regards" from the head of Paramount's South American headquarters, with a blind stamp from Cecil.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1928. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 film, about two thieves on the waterfront of Manhattan, and one's romance with the daughter of a police detective that puts them in jeopardy. Directed by William K. Howard, and.....
New York: William Morrow, 1968. First American Edition. Director Claude Berri's novelization of his classic 1967 film. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Boards lightly toned and rubbed to the top and bottom edges, with a couple of splashes to the faded blue topstain. Jacket is lightly toned and soiled to the extremities, with a two-inch closed.....
London: The Readers Library, 1930. First UK Photoplay edition. Based on the 1930 film, in turn based on the 1915 Broadway play by Kinkead, directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Constance Bennett, Lew Ayres, and Tully Marshall. Previously filmed in 1919, and subsequently in 1936 as "Private Number." Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Light edgewear.....
London: The Readers Library, 1930. First UK Photoplay edition. Based on the 1930 film, in turn based on the 1915 Broadway play by Kinkead, directed by Victor Fleming, and starring Constance Bennett, Lew Ayres, and Tully Marshall. Previously filmed in 1919, and subsequently in 1936 as "Private Number." Very Good in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Light edgewear, spine.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill the previous year. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1924 silent film directed by Alan Crosland, and starring Bebe Daniels and Richard Dix, about a pilot and unmarried woman who are stranded on a tropical island after their plane crashes. The.....
London: The Leisure Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in by Hurst and Black in 1923. One of several pseudonyms used by the author, who is probably best known for publishing under the name Oliver Sandys. Basis for the 1928 film, "A Woman in the Night," directed by Edwin Greenwood and Victor Saville, and staring.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1926. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published in 1923 by Little, Brown. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1926 Western, directed by George B. Seitz, and starring William Boyd, Marguerite De La Motte, Jack Hoxie, and J. Farrell MacDonald. Near Fine, with a hint of foxing to the top page.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1923. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published the same year by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1923 silent film directed by Donald Crisp, and starring Anna Q. Nilsson and James Kirkwood. The film is considered lost. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing to.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1913 by John Murray. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Together with Phillpotts 1916 stage adaptation, "The Farmer's Wife," basis for the 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Jameson Thomas and Lillian Hall-Davis, and released under the latter title. Very Good plus.....
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated throughout with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 silent film directed by John Gilbert and starring Gilbert and Jeanne Eagels. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Front hinge starting, with slightly bowed boards. Jacket is lightly toned to the spine and flaps, with light chipping to.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1927 by Doubleday, Doran. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 film directed by John G. Blystone, and starring Madge Bellamy, Louise Dresser, and Barry Norton. Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket. Extremities rubbed. Jacket with large chips, short tears.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1927 by Doubleday, Doran. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 film directed by John G. Blystone, and starring Madge Bellamy, Louise Dresser, and Barry Norton. Jacket with a few tiny tears, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 film, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starring Richard Dix and Julie Carter, about two Native Americans who meet and fall in love while being educated back East, only to face conflict from white settlers and traditionalist in their own rival tribes.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 Warner Brothers film directed by Archie Mayo, and starring Pauline Frederick, Bert Lytell, and Lois Wilson, in turn based on the 1914 play by Rice. Previously filmed in 1917, and remade again in 1938. Very Good in a Good dust jacket.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 silent film set in Argentina, directed by F. Richard Jones, and starring Douglas Fairbanks (who also wrote the screenplay), Lupe Valez, and Joan Barclay. Light edgewear and a few discreet repairs to the jacket, else Near Fine in a Near Fine.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with eight film stills. Based on the 1928 silent film, four men who volunteer as fighter pilots for the Layfette Escadrille during World War I, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Gary Cooper and Faye Wray. The film is now considered lost. Very Good plus in a Very Good.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with eight film stills. Based on the 1928 silent film, four men who volunteer as fighter pilots for the Layfette Escadrille during World War I, directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Gary Cooper and Faye Wray. The film is now considered lost. Slight lean, else Near Fine in a......
London: The Readers Library, 1925. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1925 film, directed by John Ford, and starring Jay Hunt and Wallace MacDonald, in turn based on the 1918 Broadway play, written by Bacon and Winchell Smith. Remade in 1930 as a talkie, directed by Henry King, and starring Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, and Joel McCrea. Very Good.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1925 silent film, directed by Erich von Stroheim, and starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert, itself based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Extremities rubbed. Jacket with several small chips and short tears.
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1925 silent film, directed by Erich von Stroheim, and starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert, itself based on the 1905 operetta by Franz Lehar. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Extremities rubbed, slight lean, foxing. Jacket with several chips and tears, reinforced with cello tape on the.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published by The Century Company in 1919. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 MGM film, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres, the first MGM film released with a pre-recorded soundtrack, and the first to have Leo the.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1925. First printing of the photoplay edition, preceded by the 1901 novel "Graustark: The Story of a Love Behind the Throne" published by Herbert S. Stone. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1925 silent film, directed Frank Borzage, and starring Norma Talmadge and Eugene O'Brien. Filmed previously in 1915. Three more films.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1923. First printing of the photoplay edition, preceded by the edition published by Boni and Liverwright the same year. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1923 silent film, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Conrinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, and Clara Blow. Very Good plus in a Near Fine dust jacket. Slight lean, light.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1931. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1932 film, directed Paul L. Stein, and starring Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, and Pola Negri, appearing in her first Hollywood film and first talkie after a brief retirement in 1928. Tiny bump to the lower front board, else Fine in a bright.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1929. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 pre-Code musical comedy, adapted for the screen from the 1927 Ziegfeld stage musical, directed by Luther Reed, and starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles, and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, reprising the stage roles that made them famous. RKO's.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 pre-Code musical comedy, adapted for the screen from the 1927 Ziegfeld stage musical, directed by Luther Reed, and starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles, and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, reprising the stage roles that made them famous.....
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the classic 1926 German film, directed by F.W. Murnau, and starring Gosta Ekman and Emil Jannings, itself based on Goethe's 19th century play. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is bright and unfaded, with a short closed tear on the front flap fold, and.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK Photoplay edition, originally published in 1910 by Macmillan. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 silent film directed by Charles Brabin, and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon. The third of four film adaptations of London's novel, the most recent being a 2010 Canadian film directed by.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1904 by Macmillan. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Ralph Ince, who also starred in the film opposite Claire Adams. The third of a dozen film adaptations of London's novel. Light foxing and rubbing to both book and jacket, else Near Fine in Near.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, an collection of linked short stories originally published by The Century Company in 1912. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1929 film, directed by Scott R. Dunlap, and starring Conway Tearle and Barbara Bedford. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 film, directed by Lewis Seiler, and starring Robert Armstrong and John Mack Brown, in turn based on the 1926 play by Judge. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is lightly chipped at the extremities.
London: WH Allen, 1953. First UK Edition, preceding all others. A novelization of the 1953 stage play by Janet Green, which also served as the basis for the 1955 film noir "Cast a Dark Shadow," directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockewood, and Kay Walsh. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Vintage bookstore label.....
London: London Book Company, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1927 film, directed by George Dewhurst, and starring Mary Brough, in turn based on the circa 1910s play by John Le Breton, here incorrectly identified as Thomas Le Breton. Very Good plus with a slight lean, in a lightly chipped and soiled, Very Good dust jacket.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper, winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the only silent film to win that award. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Owner name on.....
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1927 silent film, in turn based on the 1922 Broadway play, directed by Paul Leni, and starring Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, and Forrest Stanley. The first of four film adaptations of the play. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Seller label on the front pastedown.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1920. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1920 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, in turn based on the 1898 play by Charlotte Blair Parker. Although the play was filmed twice previously, in 1908 and 1914, and once subsequently, in a Gary Cooper starring 1935.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 silent film, directed by Sam Taylor, and starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rodgers, for which Norris contributed the original story. Nominated for a Academy Award. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped, with a few short closed.....
New York: A.L. Burt, 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1927 silent film, directed by Sam Taylor, and starring Mary Pickford and Buddy Rodgers, for which Norris contributed the original story. Nominated for a Academy Award. Slight lean, else Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription on the front.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1927. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 part talkie film, adapted by Nicholson from his 1927 Broadway play of the same name, directed by George Fitzmaurice, and starring Dorothy Mackail, Milton Sills, Betty Compson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Compson was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her.....
Budapest: Singer es Wolfner Irodalmi Intezet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom right corner. Biro wrote the 1917 play, "Szinmu negy felvonasban,".....
London: The Readers Library, 1930. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1929 film, in turn based on the 1911 play by Parker, about British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli during the purchase of the Suez Canal, directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, and David Torrence. Nominated for three Academy Awards, with George Arliss winning for.....
London: The Readers Library, 1925. First UK Photoplay Edition, published the same year by Grosset and Dunlap in the US. Based on the 1925 silent film, in turn based on Brown's 1924 Broadway play, directed by Joseph Henabery, and starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed, gilt titling rubbed from.....
London: The Readers Library, 1928. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in France in 1921 by Ferenzi, and in the US by Payson and Clarke in 1928. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1928 silent German film about a novelist in Paris and his girlfriend's criminal ties, directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj, and starring Marcella.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1926. First Photoplay Edition, originally published by George H. Doran the same year. Photo-illustrated with film stills throughout. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Marian Nixon and Pat O'Malley. Drawn from the author's own experiences as a circus performer, about a bareback rider and her romance with a grifter who.....
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1922 by W.J. Watt. Basis for the 1927 film directed by George B. Seitz, and starring Hobart Bosworth, Jacqueline Logan, and Richard Arlen. A story about high stakes on the high seas, including tyrannical ship captains. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine.....
Chicago: John C. Winston, 1932. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1931 film, "Way Back Home," directed by William A. Seiter, and starring Phillips Lord, Effie Palmer, and Bette Davis, which, in turn, was based on Lord's NBC Radio show "Sunday Evening at Seth Parker's," featuring stories revolving around the life of a country.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the UK photoplay edition, originally published in 1846 by Michel Levy. Basis for the 1926 film, directed by Jacques Feyder, and starring Raquel Meller. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket had a couple of tiny closed tears and light nicking to the extremities.
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. Based on the 1927 British film, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody and A. Bromley Davenport, in turn based on the 1920 stage play "Le Zebre" by Paul Armont and Nicolas Nancey. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Starting to the rear hinge. Chipping to the crown.....
London: London Book Company, 1928. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 film, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, itself based on the stage play by Berkeley. One of the most controversial British films of the silent era, about the execution of British nurse Edith Cavell by German forces during World.....
London: London Book Company, 1928. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1928 film, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Sybil Thorndike, itself based on the stage play by Berkeley. One of the most controversial British films of the silent era, about the execution of British nurse Edith Cavell by German forces during World.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Rene Clair in holograph ink on the front endpaper. Photoplay edition, with stills from the film, and released in a dust jacket featuring a still of Bourvil on the front. Top edges uncut. Basis for the 1961 eponymous film, directed by Clair, starring Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, and Claude Rich.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1923. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1923 silent film, in turn based on the Rida Young Johnson's stage play, and directed by Sidney Olcott, and starring Marion Davies and Harrison Ford (no, not that Harrison Ford). The film, about an Irish woman who comes to America disguised as.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published as "An Imperfect Lover" in 1929 by Doubleday Doran. With photo-illustrated endpapers featuring scenes from the film. Basis for the 1932 pre-Code film, "Cynara," directed by King Vidor, and starring Ronald Coleman, Kay Francis, and Phyllis Barry, about an affair with a younger woman that ruins.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published by Appleton in 1905 as "The Reckoning." Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. The story of the American Revolution, as told through its effect on one family. Basis for the 1924 silent film, directed by D.W. Griffith, and starring Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, and Carol Dempster.....
London: The Readers Library, 1927. First UK Photoplay Edition. A collection of previously published short stories, with the title story being the basis for the 1927 silent film about a boxer conflicted about joining the fight in World War I, directed by Alfred Santell, and starring Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, and Lawford Davidson. Bathelmess received an Academy Award nomination for.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from a performance of the play. A novelization of the 1924 stage play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merrivale, about an aging engine driver who believes his engine has become alive and evil. A film version was released in 1929, directed by Geza von Bolvary, and starring Carlyle Blackwell.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 silent film, directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, about a disabled World War I vet returning home to the girl he left behind. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped, affecting some.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published the same year by J.B. Lippincott. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1929 film, directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Charles Farrell and Mary Duncan. The complete film is considered lost, though sections of it do survive. Fine and unread in a Very.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published in 1862 by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven and Company. Basis for the 1925 French silent film, directed, written, and produced by Henri Fescourt, and starring Gabriel Gabrio. and Paul George, as well as other versions too numerous to count. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Hinges tender.....