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Auction History Result 7w048 HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN Triangle Books movie edition hardcover book 1944 Veronica Lake, Tone Date Sold 7/13/2018 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]; 307 pages) (Learn More) The Hour Before the Dawn, the 1944 Frank Tuttle World War II (WWII) female Nazi spy espionage crime film noir ("From the Great Best Seller by the Author of 'The Letter' and 'Of Human Bondage'!"; "W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!"; "From the novel by W. Somerset Maugham"; about an Englishman who refuses to fight in World War II because he is a conscientious objector; he marries a young woman who is really a Nazi spy!; she accompanies him and transmits many secrets to the Nazis, and when she is revealed, her husband manages to overcome his objection to killing, killing her and joining the R.A.F.!) starring Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes, Henry Stephenson, Philip Merivale, Nils Asther, and David Leland NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the Triangle Books 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: Triangle Books (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. Oddly, in the case of this movie edition, they did not include any images from the movie within the book, but the stars' images are on the cover of the dust jacket. Perhaps it was published before the movie even was ready, so they did not have access to images from the film. 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: poor. There is significant paper loss in the dust jacket and the interior pages have greatly darkened around the edges. The dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. Learn More about condition grades 
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