Moby Dick or the White Whale ... Photoplay title: The Sea Beast
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d., [ca. 1930]. Photoplay edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 511, [5]; frontispiece and 6 plates from scenes from the movie starring John Barrymore; a very good copy in original red cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine, in a compromised and fragile dust jacket with chips and tears but with very minor loss of lettering. Verso of jacket with copious ads for other G & D titles. The novel was first published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1925. Later printings of it, as here, have the note on the title page "Profusely illustrated with scenes from the talking picture a Warner Brother and Vitaphone Production starring John Barrymore" which appeared in theatres in 1930. Tanselle 11. Item #61644
Price: $200.00
