The Talkies: Articles and Illustrations from a Great Fan Magazine 1928-1940
by Griffith, Richard
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Reading Copy/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0486227626
- ISBN 13
- 9780486227627
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dover Publications, 1971. Foreword by Lawrence J. Quick 4to size softcover; 360 pages with black and white photographs throughout and four color plates. From back: "The selection for this original anthology, by the noted film historian Richard Griffith, offers the widest possible range of material from the magazine's heyday, roughly 1928-1940. Approximately 150 articles, reproduced here in their entirely, are all reprinted exactly as they first appeared in Photoplay, along with numerous photographs which accompany individual articles... As simple entertainment or as delightfully packaged nostalgia, this anthology is a rare find." A Reading Copy: Ex-library with typical treatments, exterior covers have been laminated. Edgewear, worn bottom front corner, tear and chipping to top of spine, some light soil to outside pages, crease on back cover, bumped top corner with curled page tips at beginning and end of book. We noted one previously folded page corner and a large tear on the last page of the index. . Trade Paperback. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Charity Bookstall (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006173
- Title
- The Talkies: Articles and Illustrations from a Great Fan Magazine 1928-1940
- Author
- Griffith, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Reading Copy
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0486227626
- ISBN 13
- 9780486227627
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Photoplay; celebrities; movies; Fan magazine; illustrated;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Magazines, Periodicals and Journals; Movie or TV Tie-In; Celebrities and Entertainment;
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- Trade Paperback
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- Jacket
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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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...