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Auction History Result 8x165 WOMAN COMMANDS Grosset & Dunlap movie edition hardcover book 1932 Pola Negri, Basil Bathbone Date Sold 8/26/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 240 pages) (Learn More) A Woman Commands, the 1932 Paul L. Stein romantic melodrama ("The Screen Receives Negri's Magic Voice!") starring Pola Negri, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, H.B. Warner, and Reginald Owen. Note that Pola Negri had a thick German accent, and her career went dramatically downhill after the advent of sound. In this, her first movie after a three year layoff (during which time perhaps she took voice lessons?), the studio tried to make her accent a plus by promoting it as her "magic" voice, but it did not work, and she had markedly less success in sound movies. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Maot Tey Sitka Important Added Info: Note that this is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition of this novel in its original dust jacket. This book has the original dust jacket. Here are more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). They would republish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would usually include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and they are quite collectible, especially if they still have the original dust jacket! Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Because we know that the dust jacket is an important part of the value of this book, we also pictured the entire dust jacket opened up. Between that image and our other images, you should be able to get a good sense of the overall condition of this book. Condition: very good. Note that this is one of a collection of 100 "movie edition" hardcover books we were consigned, including many great rarities! Each has its dust jacket is in a protective sleeve. We do not describe the condition of the book in words, but our many photos surely let you get an excellent sense of the exact condition of each book. Learn More about condition grades 
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