Dawn by Reginald Berkeley: First Edition (3 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated film-tie in Novel Library edition. The boards have light rubbing to the spine and to the corners. Page edges are heavily browned. Previous owners name to the front free endpaper. Pages are browned with a little staining to the top corners of a few pages but they are otherwise unmarked. Illustrated with eight stills from the film. The jacket has chipping to the corners and a little surface and edge wear. First printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears and with a George Bernard Shaw blurb. Biographical novel about Cavell, a World War I British nurse executed by the Germans for helping POWs escape, novelized by Berkeley from his play and his screen-story for the 1928 silent film of the same name. Little remembered now, the film was understandably controversial in its time and was suppressed in some markets, and consequently a blockbuster in others. Cavell is memorialized today with a statue just off of Trafalgar Square. …

First American Edition, and photoplay edition of sorts with dustjacket copy mentioning Berkeley's screenplay for the 1928 Herbert Wilcox silent film starring Sybil Thorndike. World War One themed novel concerning Edith Cavell, a World War One British nurse executed by the Germans for helping allied soldiers escape. The film was controversial and banned in some markets. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest edge wear, small edge chips, lower spine end with centimeter sized chip, few inch closed tear at top front panel.…