eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6d675 GENERAL CRACK hardcover book '30 illustrated with scenes from John Barrymore's movie! Date Sold 4/10/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 497 pages) (Learn More) General Crack, the 1930 Alan Crosland historical European Austria Germany romantic love triangle royalty intrigue melodrama ("Based on the distinguished novel 'General Crack' by George Preedy"; "Scenes in natrual color Technicolor"; about a mercenary working for the emperor of Austria who is sent to steal jewels, and while he is gone, the emperor has an affair with his wife, so the mercenary decides to lead a revolution to overthrow the king; this early talking movie had some Technicolor sequences!) starring John Barrymore (in his first all-talking role!), Marian Nixon, Armida, Lowell Sherman, Hobart Bosworth, and Nick Thompson. Note that the sound version of this movie is "lost", which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. A silent version does survive along with the Vitaphone discs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that someone decided to glue the flaps of the dust jacket to the inside front and back cover, so we can't photograph it as we photographed the other books, with the dust jacket fully opened and showing both sides! Note that this is the first Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition from 1930 in its original dust jacket. In our 26 years of auctioning, we have previously auctioned around a dozen hardcover movie edition books (most from Grosset & Dunlap). Now, we have been consigned an amazing collection of 37 hardcover movie edition books, and we are auctioning all of them in this set of auctions! All of them have the original dust jackets, and since we know that the condition of the dust jackets are very important on the value of these, we normally photograph the entire dust jacket opened up (both sides), but we can't do that in this case, because the jacket is glued (see above). 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, 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. As noted above, we have also pictured the dust jacket entirely opened and we have pictured the inside of the entire dust jacket, since we know collectors value that jacket and want to see its exact condition. Condition: good. We normally photograph the entire dust jacket opened up (both sides), but we can't do that in this case, because the jacket is glued (see above). 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, all of which should greatly help you judge the exact condition of this book! Learn More about condition grades
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