Manslaughter [Photoplay Edition]

[book is well-worn, bumped at all corners, with considerable foxing and staining to edges of text block, previous owner's signature in several places as well as his bookplate (generic) and embossed stamp on ffep; the jacket is a bit more presentable, with just some minor paper loss at the extremities and a one-inch split at the top front flap-fold]. (8 B&W film stills) Movie tie-in edition of this popular early 1920s novel, "the story of a woman who thought because she had wealth and beauty she could not go to jail!" This is the Photoplay Edition for the 1930 Paramount film starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March (misspelled "Frederic" on the dust jacket), NOT the 1922 Paramount film starring Leatrice Joy and Thomas Meighan. It's a source of continual annoyance to me that so many booksellers have no idea how to properly catalog Photoplay Editions, so I offer here a mini-tutorial: (1) Usually, neither the copyright date (in this case 1921) nor the stated printing date (in this case "Seventh Printing, Feb. 1922") is the date that this particular iteration of the book was published: the date of the MOVIE is the date of the book, and with today's resources (specifically a little thing called the IMDb) that date is simple to find; i.e., there's no excuse for anybody to state that *this* (Claudette Colbert-1930-movie) version of the book was published in 1921 or 1922. (This takes its most ludicrous form when a date of, say, 1907 -- a time when feature-length films weren't even being made yet -- is ascribed to a book that's a tie-in with a famous movie from the 1920s.) (2) In those cases -- and there are plenty of them -- when a book was filmed as a silent feature and then again in the early talkies era (ca. 1928-1932), many booksellers fail to ascertain this fact, and therefore fail to clearly indicate *which* movie their book represents. I can only say: you will never encounter these failings at ReadInk.

Product Info

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: [1930] (c.1921)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

ReadInk

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