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Hollywood adaptations

Lot 279
17.09.2021 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 602597
Lot 279 | Hollywood adaptations
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$ 2 500 – 3 500
Hollywood adaptations
1920s-40s
[HOLLYWOOD.] Group of first edition novels that were adapted for film or television, New York and London, 1920s-1940s.

Attractive group of titles, including several adapted to films which won Academy Awards®; all in dust jackets. Comprises: GALSWORTHY, John. The Forsyte Saga. London: William Heinemann, 1922. First collected edition, trade issue. Laid in is an autograph note signed (“John Galsworthy”), 20 August 1929, one page, with holograph envelope. * LOOS, Anita. “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First issue. (Jacket price-clipped and with some stains and edge chips.) * BAUM, Vicki. Grand Hotel. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1930]. First edition in English. * LAWRENCE, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, [1935]. First trade edition. Signed by Peter O’Toole, who, of course, played Lawrence in the 1962 David Lean film. Quarto. Illustrated. * O’HARA, John. Butterfield 8. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1935]. * LLEWELLYN, Richard. How Green Was My Valley. London: Michael Joseph, [1939]. First trade edition. Signed. * CAIN, James. Mildred Pierce. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. (Jacket price-clipped.) * LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of Superman. New York: Random House, [1942.] First edition in book form. (Wear to jacket at edges and folds.) * WINSOR, Kathleen. Forever Amber. New York: Macmillan, 1944. Signed.

Together, nine volumes. Octavo except as noted. Original cloth; dust jackets (condition varies, significant defects noted above, overall very good or better in like jackets). Individual custom cloth and morocco clamshell boxes on all volumes except one.

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