first edition
1930 · New York
by SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Full Description:
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1930/1931] .
First Photoplay edition and first edition thus. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm). xiv, 1-240, [2, blank] pp. With photographic frontispiece and six other black-and-white photographic stills from the Universal film staring Boris Karloff. One of the photos is double-paged.
Original diced red cloth. Front board and spine lettered in black. Top edge dark green. Title-page and endpapers are lightly toned. In publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is professionally restored along top and bottom edges and within inner creases. Some rubbing and creasing at extremities and some minor chipping. Bottom of jacket spine chipped affecting the "&" of the publisher's name. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. Still, a bright and near fine copy.
This is the first photoplay edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and first edition thus, published to coincide with the iconic 1931 Universal movie starting Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster. The jacket reads "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay presented by Carl Laemmle." The Morgan library states, "James Whale's 1931 film made Boris Karloff the face of Frankenstein for generations of viewers, and versions in other media - comic books, illustrations, prints, and posters - testify that Mary Shelley's ‘hideous progeny' is very much alive."
HBS 69220.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69220)
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1930/1931] .
First Photoplay edition and first edition thus. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm). xiv, 1-240, [2, blank] pp. With photographic frontispiece and six other black-and-white photographic stills from the Universal film staring Boris Karloff. One of the photos is double-paged.
Original diced red cloth. Front board and spine lettered in black. Top edge dark green. Title-page and endpapers are lightly toned. In publisher's original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is professionally restored along top and bottom edges and within inner creases. Some rubbing and creasing at extremities and some minor chipping. Bottom of jacket spine chipped affecting the "&" of the publisher's name. Small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown. Still, a bright and near fine copy.
This is the first photoplay edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and first edition thus, published to coincide with the iconic 1931 Universal movie starting Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster. The jacket reads "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay presented by Carl Laemmle." The Morgan library states, "James Whale's 1931 film made Boris Karloff the face of Frankenstein for generations of viewers, and versions in other media - comic books, illustrations, prints, and posters - testify that Mary Shelley's ‘hideous progeny' is very much alive."
HBS 69220.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69220)
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