FAMOUS STARS OF FILMDOM (WOMEN)
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Features profiles of Constance Bennett, Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Bebe Daniels, Marlene Dietrich, Marie Dressler, Kay Francis, Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Ann Harding, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, and Gloria Swanson. Small octavo: x, [2], 341, [1, blank] pp. with a frontispiece with tissue guard and 15 full-page plates, all halftones after autographed publicity photographs. The title page is printed in red and black. In the publisher's blue diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, designed by Alfred Brennan, with gilt-stamped ruled borders, stylized vine design with doves and peacock, and titling. Top edge gilt, with buff endpapers. A fine copy in the original cellophane wrapper, housed in the publisher's two-part box. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Fine. Item #78953
Price: $200.00