eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7w069 MAIN STREET Grosset & Dunlap movie edition hardcover book 1923 Florence Vidor, Sinclair Lewis Date Sold 7/13/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 451 pages) (Learn More) Main Street, the 1923 Harry Beaumont silent young-woman-moving-from-the-city-to-a-small-town melodrama ("All the tragedy, the humor and the romance of Sinclair Lewis' celebrated novel"; adapted from the best selling novel by Sinclair Lewis) starring Florence Vidor (as Carol Milford Kennicott), Monte Blue ("and a typical cast of WARNER stars"; as Dr. Will Kennicott), Harry Myers, Robert Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Noah Beery Sr., and Alan Hale Sr. Note that this movie was made three years after Sinclair Lewis wrote this major best-seller, which sold well over a million copies soon after its publication. It was remade in 1936 as "I Married a Doctor", with Pat O'Brien and Josephine Hutchinson. We have never seen either version, so we don't know if they were faithful to the novel, or how they were received by the public. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition of this novel in its original dust jacket. This book has the original dust jacket. Here are more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). 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 usually include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and they are quite collectible, especially if they still have the original dust jacket! 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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