Criminal Code by Flavin Martin: First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. 200p., frontis photo, original cast, prologue, plates from set designs, ex-Global Youth Evangelism Library stamp with remains of pocket else good only first edition in cloth boards. Filmed three times, the first by Howard Hawks starring Walter Huston and Boris Karloff. Flavin was a San Francisco native.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. A VG+ copy in a fine facsimile dust jacket. Basis for the 1930 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes and Constance Cummings. Scarce. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. Pale brown cloth titled in black. Light soiling on the boards, near fine lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "To Barrett H. Clark Sincerely Martin Flavin. 12/10/29." Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama, aside from authoring and translating many plays, he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French. This play was the basis for the 1950 film noir *Convicted,* starring Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, and Dorothy Malone. Johnson. *The Dark Page II*: p.64.…

First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 200. Frontispiece photograph of a cast member and nine plates from the set designs by Albert R. Johnson. A play in three acts which attacked the American prison system.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''To T. Brooks Atkinson appreciatively - Martin Flavin 11/27-29''. From 1925 to 1960 Atkinson was the theatre critic for the New York Times. On the rear panel of the dustwrapper is an extract from his enthusiastic review of this play.Fine in good, rubbed and chipped dustwrapper with some loss along the bottom edge.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Play that is the basis for the 1950 film noir "Convicted," starring Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, and Dorothy Malone. Rare in dust jacket. Near Fine in an About Very Good example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket is professional mended at several spots along the folds, a bit spotted along the spine, else lightly worn with small chips to extremities. Extremely scarce in dust jacket. The Dark Page II: 1959-1965, p. 64.…