eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9g1143 BELLA DONNA A.L. Burt movie edition hardcover book 1923 Pola Negri, by Robert Hichens! Date Sold 7/8/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 537 pages) (Learn More) Bella Donna, the 1923 George Fitzmaurice silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the famous novel by Robert Hichens"; about a femme fatale European woman who is married, but she attracts much attention from other men, and her husband kills one of them, and he is convicted of that murder; she then marries an engineer, and they go to Egypt, where she has an affair with an Egyptian man who convinces her to poison her husband; she does it slowly, and while he is very ill, she goes to her lover only to find him with another woman; she returns to her husband, but he has found her out, and he is being nursed back to health by his former girlfriend; devastated, she goes into the desert alone, where she is enveloped by a sandstorm!) starring Pola Negri ("Her first American made picture"; in the title role as Bella Donna), Conway Tearle, Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Claude King, Lois Wilson, Macy Harlem, and Robert Schable. Note that this film was shown in the "DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process", but only when the movie premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the A.L. Burt Company 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: this company (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. 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: very good. Learn More about condition grades
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