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Auction History Result 6h0048 DIVINE WOMAN Jacobsen hardcover book 1928 Greta Garbo, Victor Sjostrom, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5" x 7 1/2" [13 x 19 cm]; 128 pages) (Learn More) The Divine Woman, the 1928 Victor Sjostrom (he was a major Swedish director of the 1910s and 1920s, and late in his life, he turned to acting, giving memorable performances in several Ingmar Bergman movies, most notably "Wild Strawberries") silent France romantic love triangle melodrama (from the play 'Starlight' by Gladys Unger; about a young small town French girl who moves to Paris and wants to become an actress, and she is helped by an older producer who was once involved with her mother; she falls in love with a deserter from the army, and he is put in jail, and the older man makes romantic moves towards the girl, and she must decide which of the men to choose) starring Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Johnny Mack Brown, Polly Moran, and Dorothy Cumming. Note that this is a "lost" film (one of the eight reels still exists, but sadly, the rest appears to be completely lost). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this hardcover book! We are also currently auctioning a first edition paperback version (which was published before the first edition hardback version) of this book in a separate auction. Because the hardcover version was published after the paperback version, it's more difficult to find. Note that this is the Jacobsen Publishing Company photoplay edition in its original dust jacket. Here are some more details about these books: this company (like Grosset & Dunlap) was a publisher that made a deal with some studios to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies. 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 include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. Oddly, in the case of this movie edition, they did not include any images from the movie within the book, but the stars' images are on the cover of the dust jacket. Perhaps it was published before the movie even was ready, so they did not have access to images from the film. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. 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. Note that this is one of an amazing collection of 30 movie edition books (and a few closely related items) that were consigned to us from a man who has collected such books for over half a century! Included are some of the most rare and desirable of these books, and all have the original dust jackets (many times such books lost their dust jackets over the years and they are far more rare with the dust jacket). This is a very rare opportunity to obtain one or more of these books, most of which we have either never auctioned before or only auctioned once before! Condition: very good. The dust jacket has some creases and small tears in the top and bottom, and the inside flaps of the dust jacket have been diagonally clipped in the corners, but only blank white paper was affected. The book itself is in pretty nice condition (see our many images). Learn More about condition grades 
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