Palace Theatre Hartford 1928 Programme Connecticut, Broadway por Philip Dunning & George Abbott - 1928: The Poli Players featuring Marion Grant & Frank Lyon in "Broadway" by Philip Dunning & George Abbott

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.

George H. Doran, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 288 pages. A novel of bootlegging, murder, and show business, adapted from the authors' play of the same name. The film was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. *** This is a bibliographically complex book. The book itself is the first printing by Doran, with one still opposite page 234. The jacket is the Grosset and Dunlap jacket for the photoplay. It appears that G&D must have used some of the original publisher's books to supplement their own printing. Quite uncommon in this mixed issue. First edition (first printing). Very good in a good to very good dust jacket missing a good-sized chip at the base of the spine.

Philadelphia: Blakiston Company, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Xv, 910 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Fine . Dust Jacket Poriced $3.75, Light Usage, Minute Losses At Edges. Dust Jacket By Vera Bock (1905 - 2006), A Russian-Born Artist Who Spent Most Of Her Career In The United States. She Is Known For Her Book Illustrations And For The Posters She Made For The Works Progress Administration During The Great Depression

New York: George H. Doran, 1927. Hardcover. 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.

New York:: George H. Doran Company,, [1927].. First edition.. original cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. Composer David Diamond's copy, with his name embossed in small letters in the upper right corner of the title page; a very good copy in a good jacket with internal tape repairs, a tanned spine, small chips at extremities, and overall wear.. 8vo,. With an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott.

New York:: George H. Doran Company,, [1927].. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. Slight shelf wear; but a nice copy, clean, tight and sound in a jacket with a sunned spine and a few small chips at corners.. 8vo,.

NY: George H. Doran Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Cloth-backed orange boards with spine label, dark topstain. Early printing. Inscribed to ffep by Jed Harris to Ralph Holmes, and includes the signatures of Dunning and Abbott. Jed Harris was an American theatrical producer and director with many successful Broadway productions. Ralph Holmes was an American stage and film actor. Light corner/edge wear to boards. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is edgeworn/chipped, sunned to spine, closed tears mid spine. Spine is priced at $2.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Collection of Signatures .

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1929. 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… Ler mais