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Bantam Books. Very Good-. 1980. Paperback. 0553132369 . Movie tie-in cover featuring Neil Diamond. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 184 pages .

New York City Ny: Brentano's, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Xii, (I), 122 Pp. Green Cloth, Faux-Wood Boards. First Printing. Signed By Author; By Dorothy Dish,K The Lead Actress, And Signed "Compliments Of Sidney Ross- May 1, 1929". Worn, Front Hinge Cracked , Spine Cloth Foxed And Damp Stained With Lettering Readable. Samson Raphaelson (1894 -1983) Was A Leading American Playwright, Screenwriter And Fiction Writer. While Working As An Advertising Executive In New York, He Wrote A Short Story Based On The Early Life Of Al Jolson, Called The Day Of Atonement, Which He Then Converted Into A Play, The Jazz Singer. This Would Become The First Talking Picture, With Jolson As Its Star. He Then Worked As A Screenwriter With Ernst Lubitsch On Sophisticated Comedies Like Trouble In Paradise, The Shop Around The Corner, And Heaven Can Wait And With Alfred Hitchcock On Suspicion. His Short Stories Appeared In The Saturday Evening Post And Other Leading Magazines, And… Read More

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film. Based on the 1925 play by Samson Raphaelson. The first feature film with both a synchronized recorded score and lip-synchronized singing and dialogue, effectively signaling the end of the silent era. At the first Oscars, producer Daryl F. Zanuck received an Honorary Academy Award and the film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, though it was declared ineligible to compete for Best Picture in fairness to the nominated silent films. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a small chip at one corner, and a small bruise at another corner. Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical.

New York: Brentano’s, 1928. First Edition. Signed by the lead actress in the play, Dorothy Gish (Lillian Gish’s sister), and signed by the author Samson Raphaelson, and inscribed by the play’s producer: “Compliments of Sidney Ross, May 1, 1929.” Very good copy with some fading at the spine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a small (1” x 1/2”) chip at the top edge of the front panel and some internal tape repairs.

New York: Brentano’s, 1928. First Edition. Signed by the author. Presentation copy from Samson Raphaelson, rather scandalously inscribed: “For Dorothy Speare, A lady in Hollywood (a slut from Boston) with love, Samuel Raphaelson. Hollywood (unfortunately) 1932.” A used and worn copy with some dark spotting to the boards and fading and rubbing to the spine and edges in a chipped and torn price-clipped dust jacket.

MADISON: WISCONSIN.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0299076601 . First edition. About fine in like dust jacket. (Light shelf wear to jacket. ) SIGNED on neatly tipped-in cards by cast members: May McAvoy, William Demarest, Roscoe Karns, Myrna Loy & Audrey Ferris. .

New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1925. Book. G+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardback bound in a multi-color striped boards with blue spine with title on a paste-on on the spine. Book has light edge wear with a water stain along the very top edge of the cover and on the top edge of the first couple of pages; otherwise the interior is tight, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has small chipping at the spine and has a short closed tear on top front edge (now protected in Brodart jacket cover). Book was based on a story in Everybody's Magazine, January, 1922 and was made into the 1st "Talking Movie" starring Al Jolson. 153 pages..

New York: Brentano's, 1925. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing of the dramatic version of a play which entered history when filmed, becoming the first "talkie." Bound in publisher's patterned paper cover boards over green spine cloth with paper title label on spine. Fine, pages lightly toned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, light fading and light edge wear. A lovely copy, scarce in the dust jacket.

New York: Brentano's, (1925). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 153p octavo. A very good copy in paterned boards and green cloth. Inscribed by the author to author Fred Hummel, known as "The King of East Long Island," "January 1926 to the George F Hummels -grand people- from Damson Raphaelson" The book was the source for the first "Talkie" "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson.

New York: Brentano's, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 153pp. blue cloth spine, printed paper label, decorated paper over boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is present. It is not clipped; there is a short closed marginal tear on the front cover, and some roughness along the bottom edge of the rear cover, but it is essentially near fine. The first book edition of the Jazz SInger after its short story appearance in the January 1922 Everybody's Magazine. The author expanded and dramatized the story. A special acknowledgment of the first stage production in 1925 at the Fulton Theatre, starring George Jessel as Jack Robin. Basis for the Warner Brothers production starring Al Jolson, billed as the first talking motion picture. .

New York: Brentano's, 1925. 153pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, paper label & patterned boards. Very Good. 153pp. 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by the author on the ffep. This movie is considered the first talkie.

RAPHAELSON, Samson. THE JAZZ SINGER. NY: Brentano's, [1925]. Small 8vo., cloth & patterned boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Raphaelson on the front endpaper, and dated Christmas, 1925. Basis for the hit play, starring George Jessel and Sam Jaffe. The play was later adapted to the famous film, starring Al Jolson and Warner Oland. The film, generally considered the first "talkie," is certainly one of the milestones in cinematic history. Very Good; some edgewear & shallow chipping (number of tears with professional interior repairs) d/j. Enclosed in a custom-designed, leather and cloth clam-shell box, with Al Jolson in black face depicted on the spine and front cover. $4000.00.