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The Devil and Daniel Webster
by BENET, Stephen Vincent
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Glendale, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Weston, VT: Countryman Press, The, 1937. Publisher's red cloth, title and author stamped in black and gilt on front cover, original glassine wrapper, publisher's paper covered board slipcase. 8vo. cloth, 61 pages, five full page illustrations. Illustrated by Harold Denison. Limited to 700 copies signed by the author and artist. Bookplate of Schubert on front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, slipcase cracked. Else a fine copy. Benet's story was filmed 4 years later by RKO studios and starred Walter Huston, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Anne Shirley and Simone Simon. The film was directed by William Dieterle, Edited by Rober Wise and scored by Bernard Herrmann. It was released under the title "All that money can buy" to avoid confusion with another studio film (The Devil and Miss Jones) released the same year. The film underwent a long awaited restoration which premiered at the UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2022.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 354
- Title
- The Devil and Daniel Webster
- Author
- BENET, Stephen Vincent
- Illustrator
- Harold Denison
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's Cloth & slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st / Limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Countryman Press
- Place of Publication
- Weston, VT
- Date Published
- 1937
- Pages
- 61
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- FALL 2024;
Terms of Sale
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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About the Seller
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Biblio member since 2021
Glendale, California
About Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
Reginald C. Williams Rare Books LLC, specializes in books from the 16th through 20th century. We stock many books in the field of literature, Western philosophy, Greek classics, the history of ideas, Medicine & Science & fine sets. We are always looking to purchase individual books in our areas of interest.
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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