The Narrow Street [Photoplay Edition]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. [1925] (c.1924). PhotoPlay Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear to book, vintage bookseller's label (Geo. S. Chalmers, Rutland, Vermont) affixed upside-down on the rear pastedown; the jacket has a few tiny edge-tears and little bits of paper loss at most corners, a small array of little white scuff marks on the front panel, and an age-toned and somewhat mottled spine; also a long split at the lower front hinge has been internally and unobtrusively tape-repaired]. (8 B&W film stills) Comic romance novel about a guy who's "a shy, delightful character, but [is] easily frightened by women" -- until a young woman mysteriously moves into his apartment, and then just as mysteriously moves out again -- leaving him a changed man, but now stuck with trying to find her again. The 1925 Warner Bros. film adaptation, directed by the prolific and versatile William Beaudine, starred Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore. Somewhat unusually for a photoplay edition, the jacket illustration is identical to the first edition (published by the Penn Publishing Co.) rather than a scene from the movie; when the book was filmed again as a talkie in 1930 (and retitled WIDE OPEN), a new photoplay edition was issued with a different jacket. .