eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7w047 HOSTAGES Sun Dial Press movie edition hardcover book 1943 Luise Rainer in World War II! Date Sold 7/13/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 3/4" x 8 1/4" [15 x 21 cm]; 362 pages) (Learn More) Hostages, the 1943 Frank Tuttle World War II (WWII) military war-time Nazi Germany Czechoslovakia suspense thriller ("Girls taken captive by the Nazis"; "Hitler's men 'purge' each other as the forces of vengeance fill them with terror"; "She had a way of getting a man's secret that the Gestapo couldn't use"; "The Hun Is On The Run!"; "Right out of Hitler's cracking 'Fortress Europe'"; "The sensational best seller - NOW on the screen!"; "Read by millions as a book, Reader's Digest choice ... now it hits the screen with shattering impact!"; "From the Novel by Stefan Heym"; "Screen Play by Lester Cole and Frank Butler"; about a Nazi-occupied village in Czechoslovakia, where a Nazi officer commits suicide, and the Germans hold the villagers responsible, and they arrest 26 of them and hold them as hostages, and the movie has a tragic ending, which was intended to inspire audiences into being more patriotic) starring Luise Rainer (in her last Hollywood movie), Arturo de Cordova, William Bendix, Paul Lukas, Katina Paxinou, and Oscar Homolka NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the Sun Dial Press 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: Sun Dial Press (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: good to very good. The dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. Learn More about condition grades
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