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Auction History Result 6x167 NOAH'S ARK hardcover book '29 De Haas' novel with scenes from the Michael Curtiz movie! Date Sold 5/8/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 282 pages) (Learn More) Noah's Ark ("and the Flood that Destroyed the World!"), the 1928 Michael Curtiz World War I (WWI) romantic love triangle/religious Biblical epic ("The Spectacle of the Ages!"; "based on the story by Darryl Francis Zanuck", later to become one of Hollywood's greatest producers!; a wacky dual story that tells of two best friend soldiers in World War I, and one is in love with a German girl, and he marries her, but she is arrested as a spy and sent to a firing squad, but the husband's best friend is on the firing squad and is able to save her, and then a minister tells in his sermon how this whole story is very similar to the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, which is then reenacted with all the actors from the first part playing the Biblical roles!) starring Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery Sr., Louise Fazenda, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul McAllister (in the title role as Noah/the minister), and Myrna Loy. Note that, in 1957, this silent movie was given a full scale major re-release, and the posters gave no indication that the movie was nearly 30 years old! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the first Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition from 1929 (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some 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 re-publish 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. The example of this book offered here does not have its 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. Condition: very good. See our multiple images to get a good sense of the condition of this book. Learn More about condition grades 
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