Fowler Guy John Monk Saunders (5 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Jacket. Tanned pages. Previous owner's ink inscription, dated 1930. Undated, circa 1930. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photoplay edition with a handsome original color jacket, though jacket is missing bottom inch of spine. The seven glossy B&W plates are not exactly action-packed. The First National/Vitaphone picture, which won an Academy Award for "Best Story," was directed by Howard Hawks and starred Richard Barthelmess and Doug Farbanks, Jr. As with all our items priced at or higher than $90, this item will be shipped "signature required." Here reduced from $132. Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fowler, Guy & Saunders, John Monk. DAWN PATROL. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). TRUE FIRST EDITION, released in tandem with the 1930 First National film of the same name directed by Howard Hawks. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good just jacket (a few tiny chips at the extremities). Attractive cover art on the front panel, star photo rear panel, eight internal stills. INSCRIBED in ink in the 1960s by THREE OF THE FILM'S FOUR STARS, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Neil Hamilton and Frank McHugh on both the front free endpaper and its verso. This copy bears the bookplate of Art Ronnie, a noted studio publicist who later became a TV critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Inscribed photoplays are exceedingly rare. Possibly a unique opportunity for the collector. DAWN PATROL, the story of a doomed squadron of wartime aviators, was remade several times. John Monk Saunders won the best screenplay Oscar for this film. Laid in is an original cut ad from the 1930 New York Times for the film. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. hardcover. 1930, photoplay, a fine book with stills from the movie. a real nice dust jacket with several closed tears and edge rubbing, small corner chips, very good + dust jacket , aviation.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: The Reader's Library [undated] 1930). First UK Edition. The book of the film of the same name directed by Howard Hawks and starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Junior. Saunders won an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay. Publisher's burgundy-mauve boards with gilt lettering and decoration. The usual browning to the pages due to the poor quality of paper used (only slightly better than newsprint) but strong hinges otherwise a VG+ copy. The fragile D/W is VG indeed with just a touch of edge-wear. Uncommon in this collector's condition. …