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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay. A Warner Bros. Screen Classic Starring John Barrymore. Octavo, frontispiece depicting Barrymore and presumably Delores Costello, and 2 additional half-tone movie still illustrations, xii, 511pp, v, publishers red cloth pictorially stamped in black (Drugstores stamp dated Jan 16 1928 to front free endpaper, minor bumps to extremities very good or better). Pictorial dust jacket with ads for other titles to verso (heavy wear to edges, with tears at corners and spine ends with minute loss, creases, soiling, toning, still, front image of Barrymore bright and attractive, good or better). Images from The Sea Beast released in 1926. In 1930 Barrymore would star in Moby Dick.
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick or The White Whale (Photoplay Edition). Grosset and Dunlap, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First thus of the photoplay edition, with photos from the talking picture starring John Barrymore. Picture of Barrymore wielding a harpoon on front of jacket. Scarce. Very good in green cloth boards with some wear and fading, and a small damp stain to corner of back board. Good only jacket with some chipping to edges and a chunk missing from the spine, which affects most of Melville's name.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$211.00 + shipping
Description: Moby Dick or the white whale by Herman Melville. Photoplay Title The Sea Beast. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay a warner bros. screen classic starring john barrymore. Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap New York. Dusk Jacket with Picture of John Barrymore. Shallow Chipping to top of jacket at spine and one dime sized chip on rear top edge, spine has 1" seperation, no bookplate, PO name and date written in pencil on FEP DATE PUBLISHED: 1925 EDITION: 511
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: a photoplay edition with photos from the film ed. hardback very good condition in green cloth and in a dust jacket with a bit of edgewear, an inch closed tear on the top of the front and some soiling to the spine and rear, - there is a pen gift inscription on the frontpiece verso
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.