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UNE FEMME DANS LA LUNE (THE WOMAN IN THE MOON)
by von Harbou, Thea (novel and screenplay); Lang, Fritz (director)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Ãditions Cosmopolites, 1929. First French Edition. Basis for Fritz Lang's 1929 silent film Frau in Mond, adapted for the screen by Thea von Harbou from her 1928 novel Die Frau in Mond. The novel was released in the US and UK in 1930 as By Rocket to the Moon and The Woman in the Moon, respectively. An attractive copy of a scarce edition, published the same year the film was released and preceding both English language translations. OCLC finds 5 copies, of these, only 1 in the U.S. (Harvard). First Impression. Octavo (17cm); tan paper-covered boards, with blue and bronze marbling to covers, titling and decorations stamped in gilt and dark yellow on spine; dustjacket; 253, [1]pp. Faint foxing to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves, with light tanning to same; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced 3 Frs.50 at upper right corner of front panel; light wear to extremities and joints, shallow loss at spine ends and corner tips (none affecting lettering), with some scattered foxing and faint dampstains to flap folds and lower edge visible on verso; Very Good - Very Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 451
- Title
- UNE FEMME DANS LA LUNE (THE WOMAN IN THE MOON)
- Author
- von Harbou, Thea (novel and screenplay); Lang, Fritz (director)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First French Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ãditions Cosmopolites
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- NOAMZ
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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