They Had to See Paris by Croy, Homer - 1926

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- in Fair dj. [1929] (c.1926). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [a decent copy, some deterioration to binding along both joints, slight bumping/fraying to several corners; the jacket, though, is heavily worn at edges and corners, with some staining to the rear panel and spine, a sizeable piece missing from the upper left corner of the rear panel, additional paper loss at the upper spine corners (taking part of the title with it), and, rather strangely, the lower couple of inches of the jacket spine seem to have had a piece of a different jacket "spliced" in]. (4 B&W film stills) Another rendition (probably not the first and definitely not the last) of the "American hicks in Paris" plot, with Pike Peters and his family, of Clearwater, Oklahoma, striking it unexpectedly oil-rich and deciding to better themselves by visiting the City of Lights to sop up some culture, which of course leads to them getting into all sort of amusing… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Photo Play Edition.. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Photoplay Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Photoplay Edition in clean illustrated dust jacket with portrait of the Eiffel Tower and Will Rogers on the front cover. With illustrations from the William Fox All Talking Photoplay with Will Rogers. Clean toast brown cloth boards with black lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers (small, neat previous owner bookplate at lower corner of front pastedown). 303 pages with eleven pages of publisher's advertising at rear of book. Clean bright jacket has one tiny chip at lower right spine corner (smaller than a match-head); enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good- DJ. Later Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, several small, closed tears, some related creasing, small chip at heel, small soil spot at top edge, else bright and clean. Brown coated cloth boards, black ink lettering, back of DJ printed with Grosset's compete offerings. 12mo. 303pp. plus 11pp of ads. Photoplay Edition.

Harper & Brothers, 1626. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Previous owner name stamp. In original jacket with chipping to jacket at top of spine..

Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 303 pgs, with illustrations. Gift inscription by Homer Croy reads "To Mrs. Jean M. Reid, author of Albert J. Reid From the author of 'They Had to See Paris.' Homer Croy." Book is in good condition, though it has a couple flaws: binding has slanted, more than normal shelf wear along top edge of spine, and one small mark on back cover.

grosset & dunlap, 1926, 8th printing, photoplay with will rogers hardcover. near fine brown binding with writing on the ep, in a very good -fine dust jacket , tiny corner and spine end chips, edge bumping, couple closed tears

GROSSETT & DUNLAP. NY ND. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Photoplay Edition. Cut Autograph of actor Will Rogers laid-into book on a plain white index card. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (Couple tiny edge nicks in DJ. A few small chips at corners of DJ. ) Illustrated with scenes from this early 'talkie'. Will Rogers is depicted on front & rear cover. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 303 pages .