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Auction History Result 6h0050 DOCTOR CYCLOPS hardcover book 1940 story of Paramount picture by Will Garth, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/2" x 8" [14 x 20 cm]; 255 pages) (Learn More) Dr. Cyclops (Doctor Cyclops), the 1940 Ernest B. Schoedsack science fiction (sci-fi) mad-scientist-shrinks-people-to-tiny-size fantasy adventure horror thriller ("The picture that was made behind locked doors"; "The thrill of the year!"; "Original Screen Play by Tom Kilpatrick") starring Albert Dekker (in the title role as Dr. Alexander Thorkel), Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, and Frank Yaconelli NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this hardcover book! Note that it, together with three of the other similar movie edition books we are auctioning, comes in a really cool special made slipcase that is like a "clam shell", in that you put the book in it and it closes securely around it. It appears these are generic cases, but each of them has a cool printed paper on the spine with the title and author of the specific book! A book collector tells us that these custom cases cost around $125 to $250 each (depending on how elaborate they are), but the winner of this auction gets this custom case as a free bonus! Note that this is the Phoenix Press first edition hardcover in its original dust jacket. This edition is expanded from the earlier edition which was published in the pulp magazine Thrilling Stories. 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! Note: We have 12 images of this book, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 12 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 2. Condition: very good to fine. Both the dust jacket and the book itself are in really nice condition (see our many images). Learn More about condition grades 
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