eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7w191 WAY BACK HOME John C. Winston Company hardcover book 1932 Seth Parker, young Bette Davis! Date Sold 7/13/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/2" x 8" [14 x 20 cm]; 222 pages) (Learn More) Way Back Home, the 1931 William A. Seiter adventure melodrama ("Idol of Radio Now on the Screen"; "Colossus of radio now on the screen.."; "Idol of 10,000,000 radio fans"; "All America rises to his call! New Colossus of radio! ...He brings genius to the screen in heart-drama struck from the soul of America... A great show... it storms the senses... warms the heart... exalts your whole being!"; "Seth Parker" was a very popular radio show at this time, about a kindly old man in a small town who fixes everybody's troubles, and the show's starring character name was billed above the title instead of the actor who played him, Phillips Lord!) starring Phillips Lord (billed as "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors"), Frank Albertson, Dorothy Peterson, Bette Davis, and Effie Palmer. Note that Bette Davis had had three small roles for Universal, but had not made much impact, and she didn't in this movie for RKO either. Her next movie was for Columbia, and then she made one for a minor studio, and it is surprising that it took this long for studios to recognize her great star power! Note that she was so unknown at this time (and Seth Parker was such a major radio show) that the studio did not even include Davis' image on almost all of the movie paper! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this book includes images from the movie, including several with Bette Davis, and there is a notice on the title page saying that they are used with permission from RKO. Note that this is the John C. Winston Company photoplay edition in its original dust jacket (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: The John C. Winston Company (like Grosset & Dunlap) was a publisher that made a deal with some studios to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies. They would republish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Because we know that the dust jacket is an important part of the value of this book, we also pictured the entire dust jacket opened up. Between that image and our other images, you should be able to get a good sense of the overall condition of this book. Condition: good to very good. The dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. Learn More about condition grades
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