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Auction History Result 6x177 REVELATION hardcover book '18 The Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years made into Nazimova movie! Date Sold 5/8/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" [12 x 19 cm]; 78 pages) (Learn More) Revelation, the 1918 George D. Baker silent World War I (WWI) romantic dancer painting religious conversion melodrama ("A gripping romance of peace and war"; "A Metro production de luxe in 7 acts of thrilling romance"; "From the story by Mabel Wagnalls"; about a dancer who becomes the mistress of a famous artist, and he paints her portrait in a Madonna pose, and an apparent miracle occurs, which causes her to have a religious conversion and become a Red Cross nurse in the war; at first, the artist thinks she's foolish, but he comes to believe as well, and he enlists and they get married) starring Alla Nazimova (billed as "The Great Nazimova"; born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon in Russia in 1879; she was a pupil of Stanislavsky [and his "method" style of acting]; she became a major stage star there, and came to the United States in the mid-1910s and made eleven movies for Metro in three years, including "Camille" opposite Rudolph Valentino; she produced movies that flopped badly, and she returned to the stage, returning to make a very few movies in the 1940s; she is as famous for her off screen behavior as for her on screen behavior!), Charles Bryant, Frank Currier, Syn De Conde, and Bigelow Cooper NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the first Funk & Wagnalls photoplay edition from 1918 (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: Funk & Wagnalls (like 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. 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: good to 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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