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Auction History Result 8x114 MADAME X Grosset & Dunlap movie edition hardcover book 1929 Barrymore, Chatterton, Skrenda art Date Sold 8/26/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 320 pages) (Learn More) Madame X, the 1929 Lionel Barrymore (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic tearjerker crime melodrama ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING PICTURE"; "From the play by Alexandre Bisson"; about a woman who is abandoned by her husband who keeps their young son with him; she hits rock bottom, and 20 years later, she returns to her son's life and kills a man who is threatening him, and the son, now a lawyer, does not know why she killed the man, and he defends her in court, not realizing she is his own mother!) starring Ruth Chatterton (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Lewis Stone, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, and Eugenie Besserer. Note that this classic tearjerker is one of the most frequently remade movies ever! It was first in a feature film in 1916 (as "Madam X"), and was then remade in 1920, 1929, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1954, and 1966, and there was even a TV movie version in 1981! Also note that famous actor Lionel Barrymore directed six movies between 1913 and 1917, but then solely acted until 1929, when he directed another nine movies between then and 1931. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Skrenda Important Added Info: Note that this is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition of this novel in its original dust jacket. This book has the original dust jacket. Here are 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 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 usually 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. 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. Note that this is one of a collection of 100 "movie edition" hardcover books we were consigned, including many great rarities! Each has its dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. We do not describe the condition of the book in words, but our many photos surely let you get an excellent sense of the exact condition of each book. Learn More about condition grades 
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