Cynara; photoplay title of An Imperfect Lover [Photoplay Edition]

[a nice clean copy, slight deterioration to cloth at spine ends and slight fading at top of spine (matching the shallow chip in the jacket), small bookseller's rubber stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); the jacket is lightly rubbed, worn through (or insect-nibbled-through) at a number of tiny spots along both flapfolds, and with the aforementioned shallow chip at the top of the spine, but all in all still attractive]. (photographic endpapers) "The story of a man, his wife and his mistress," this edition a tie-in with the 1932 Samuel Goldwyn production, directed by King Vidor and starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis. Unlike most earlier, silent-era Photoplay Editions, in which stills from the film were bound into the text, this early-talkie issue (no doubt reflective of the publisher's Depression economizing) confines its illustrations to a montage of scenes from the movie printed on the endpapers (there are at least different selections of photos in the front and rear of the book)]. The novel was originally published in England in 1928 (and in the U.S. by Doubleday, Doran, in 1929) under the title "The Imperfect Lover," and had been adapted for the stage (as "Cynara") in 1930. (It would appear, too, that the author's name, properly speaking, should be hyphenated -- Gore-Browne -- but maybe G&D was trying to economize on punctuation, as well.)

Product Info

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: [1932] (c.1929)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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