The Front Page (First Edition) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur - 1928

Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. No Edition Remarks. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

Covici Friede. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo in grey cloth, spine title in black. Corners and spine ends quite rubbed, light soiling to the cloth around the peripheries. In a facsimile dustjacket.

New York: Covici Friede, 1928. Third Printing . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. New York: Covici Friede, 1928. Third Printing . Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. First edition. Introduction by Jed Harris. Hit comedy about Chicago journalists, filmed in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, remade by Howard Hawks as the classic His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosiland Russell. First edition ex library copy <br/> <br/>

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Original tan cloth and black title with same date on title and copyright pages. The classic play celebrating the heyday of journalism which was filmed three times, the last with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in perhaps their funniest, most famous collaboration. Introduction by Jed Harris. In a professionally-made facsimile dist jacket. Uncommon.

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige linen, with titles stamped in black on spine; brown topstain; [xvi],189,[3]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, mild hand-soil to covers, with some staining to upper rear hinge, else clean throughout; Very Good+, lacking the scarce dustjacket. Nice copy of Hecht and MacArthur's popular play set in Chicago, centered around newspaper reporters on the police beat. It ran for 278 performances on Broadway between August 14, 1928 - April, 1929, and served as the basis for three film adaptations: Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, and Billy Wilder's 1974 adaptation The Front Page, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

New York Ny: Covici Friede, 1928. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. (Xiii), 189, (Iii). Gray Cloth Stamped In Blue. Third Printing, 1928. Near Fine, Slight Usage, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, Spine Leaned, Topstain Faded. Dust Jacket Priced $2.00, "Third Printing:" Stated, Four Reviews On Front Panel, Worn, Chipped, Small Holes Around Spine And Fore Edges.

N.p.: N.p., 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto, shows Lee Tracy (later played by Rosalind Russell onscreen), Osgood Perkins, and Frances Fuller. The second, a oversize 11 x 14, uncredited but by White Studios in New York City, shows the star Walter Baldwin (later played by Cary Grant onscreen), Osgood Perkins, and Lee Tracy. Both photographs with numerous annotations and stamps on the verso. Excessively rare photographs from the first staging of the play that made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur famous. The play would be published the same year in book form by Covici-Friede, and was the basis for three films: The Front Page" in 1931 with Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, "The Front Page" in 1974 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and most famously, the… Read More