The Last Flight; photoplay title of "Single Lady"

[a solid copy, apparently just lightly shelfworn, but peeking under the dust jacket reveals an ugly dampstain running along the right edge of the front cover (and a lesser one along the left edge of the rear cover), although the book's interior is miraculously unaffected; the jacket, although browned at the spine and moderately edgeworn, shows no signs of matching staining on the verso, leading me to believe that it may have been transferred from another copy before we obtained the book]. (4 B&W film stills) The romantic adventures of a woman in Paris, by the author/screenwriter best known for his authorship of "Wings." This story was a bit of a multimedia sensation in 1931 -- the film adaptation (for which this was a tie-in) was released in August of that year, and a musical comedy adaptation (called "Nikki," after the main character) opened on Broadway the following month. (The leading male character, "Cary Lockwood," was played on stage by a young British actor named Archie Leach -- who liked the name, and became "Cary Grant" when he went to Hollywood shortly thereafter.) The book was reprinted (under its "Single Lady" title) in the "Lost American Fiction" series in 1978 -- using this photoplay edition as its source rather than the Brewer & Warren first edition. (The copyright page of this edition, by the way, states it to be the "Second Printing before Publication," but I believe that to be a holdover from the original Brewer & Warren plates.)

Product Info

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: (c.1931)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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