Search Results: the broadway melody by jack lait

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Illustrated with scenes from the 1929 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictgure starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love. Good condition. Text is clean. Binding is tight & square. Closed tear to frontispiece. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Sunned spine. Boards have some light edgewear and spotting.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. 1st Edition thus? . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 31135 shelf. Black-stamped slightly stained blue cloth. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. From the scenario by Edmund Goulding. Illus. w/ photoplay scenes from the Metro-Goldwin-Mayer movie starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love. With many ads

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION. NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Good+ in Poor dust jacket missing front flap and pieces at foot and bottom corner of front panel, mylar-protected, taped to boards. Jacket design is still pretty-- cheapo copy thus.

USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. A novelization of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie starring Charles King, Anita Page, and Bessie Love, illustrated with scenes from the film. First edition blue cloth hardcover, minor shelfwear and bumped corners, former owner's name on FFEP, otherwise a fine clean solid copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated.

Novel Library (London Book/Collins), GB, 1929. Hardback burgundy boards gold gilt titles no dj 242 pages book has come fully away from boards and page edges are tanned but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Poor dj. (c.1929). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor wear at extremities, light dampstain surrounding base of spine; jacket heavily worn, with a big chunk missing from top of front panel, plus various tears, scrapes and whatnot]. (8 B&W film stills) Photoplay Edition (and true first edition, a G&D original), a novelization of the backstage musical film that won the year's Academy Award as Best Picture. Depicting a thinly-veiled Ziegfeld Follies (the book's impresario is named "Joseph Zanfield," changed to "Francis Zanfield" in the film), this version of the yarn benefits from author Lait's breezy, proto-hardboiled prose style, which ages a little better on the page than the early-talkie creakiness of the film has on the screen. Illustrated with eight black-and-white stills from the M-G-M movie, which starred Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love, with the ever-popular Jed Prouty (later father… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in blue. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, nicks, and tears. Some loss to top of spine. Illustrated with stills from the 1929 film of the same name. Vintage cover art by Alfred Skrenda. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 242 pages plus 10 of ads. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

London Book Co., for Wm. Collins, London, undated, c.1930, The Novel Library series. 1930. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, 242,(2)pp, pages browned throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, gilt titles, covers rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper .

Good condition. See photos.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Spine creased, a few light smudges on boards top page ridge lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. 242 pp. Photoplay of first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, and one of the first musicals with a Technicolor sequence. Frontispiece and plates with scenes from the motion picture. "Eddie Kearns (Charles King) sings "The Broadway Melody", and tells some chorus girls that he brought the Mahoney Sisters vaudeville act to New York to perform it with him in the latest revue being produced by Francis Zanfield (Eddie Kane). Harriet "Hank" Mahoney (Bessie Love) and her sister Queenie Mahoney (Anita Page) are awaiting Eddie's arrival at their apartment. Hank, the older sister, prides herself on her business sense and talent, while Queenie is lauded for her beauty. Hank is confident they will make it big while Queenie is less eager to put everything on the line to… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1929, Photoplay edition,. Good. 1929. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 242,(10)pp, b/w photo plates, pages browning, contents clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, black titles, slightly rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper .

London: Wm Collins Sons & Co / The London Book Co, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ND. 1929 - WorldCat. Novelisation of "the talkie sensation of the year" from the film scenario by Edmund Goulding. Cheap (and only) UK edition, in The Novel Library series. Stock toned and binding opening a little but otherwise all in good internal order. Plum boards lightly marked/worn with gilt titling dulled to front and spine. Chief delight is VG unclipped d/j - a nice alternative to the US Grosset & Dunlap edition. This a little worn to edges with minor loss and now in removable protective sleeve. 16mo. 242pp + publisher's ads.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929]. 8vo. [4], 242 pp., plus 10 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp., 7 photo plates. Blue ribbed publisher’s cloth, black lettering front cover & spine (very slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art by Alfred George Skrenda (minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, 1 closed tear), still VG/G copy. First photoplay edition of this title based on the famed pre-Code film which actually won the 1929 Academy Award for first sound film, and was one of the earliest musicals to feature a Technicolor Sequence, however this sequence has now been lost. The film produced by Thalberg & Weingarten for MGM, directed by Harry Beaumont, and starred Charles King, Anita Page, and Bessie Love.

GROSSET & DUNLAP. NY 1929. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition & first photoplay edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. (Jacket would be Vg. + or better were it not for an unfortunate 5 inch tear which loops across the front cover. A few small chips at edges of front cover. 1"- inch tear at base of rear panel of jacket. ) Winner of Best Picture Oscar. .