The Green Hat by Michael Arlen, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. W. Collins Sons & Co., 48 Pall Mall. [Printed by W. Collins, Glasgow], London, 1924. 329, [3, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. Some notes in pencil on last three blank endpapers. i329, [3, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A major bestseller in its time, and the basis for the 1928 Clarence Brown film A Woman of Affairs featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as Outcast Lady with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall. Brown cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition Thus. [modest wear to book extremties, minor soiling to edges of text block; the jacket shows some wear, and a few small nicks, along the top and bottom edges, with some minor creasing at the bottom edge of the front panel, light soiling to the rear panel, moderate fading to the spine]. (B&W photographic endpapers) Photoplay edition, a tie-in with the 1934 M-G-M film adaptation, entitled OUTCAST LADY, which starred Constance Bennett (who another bookseller offering this title seems to think is Marlene Dietrich) and Herbert Marshall (he of the wooden leg), and was directed by Robert Z. Leonard. This was Arlen's third novel, and its original success in both England and America catapulted its Armenian-born author to fame and fortune. The melodramatic story features a "shameless, shameful" woman who leads a hedonistic life in the mad whirl of London society as a rather perverse way of protecting the reputation of her dead husband, who had committed suicide on their wedding night. Written in what one critic called an "opium dream style," the book spawned both stage and film adaptations, all of which were bowdlerized to some degree due to story elements involving venereal disease and homosexuality. The 1925 stage version ran concurrently in New York and London, with Katharine Cornell and Tallulah Bankhead the respective headliners. The book and play were scandalous enough that the first film version, A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (1928) with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, bore only the discreet credit "from the story by Michael Arlen"; although by the time M-G-M got around to making this second version they at least credited the novel, they felt compelled (possibly due to the newly-tighted screws of the Production Code) to slap yet another title on it. Reflecting the belt-tightening that affected mid-Depression-era photoplay editions, this one eschews bound-in movie stills in favor of a montage of scenes on the endpapers (16 tiny photos altogether).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection - Signed by Author. Signed by Author.

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. In lightly faded black boards with fading gilt lettering on spine and bright gilt encircled figure on front panel. With colophon on the copyright page, indicating the first edition. Covered with the ultra-rare dust jacket in silver foil paper, which has survived in mint condition, though price-clipped. Also with previous owner's signature, else unmarked. Seminal jazz age novel about a tragic flapper that was filmed with Greta Garbo. RARE in jacket, especially in this condition.

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. In black boards with gilt lettering and gilt encircled figure on front panel. With bright gilt lettering and colophon on the copyright page, indicating the first edition. Covered with the ultra-rare dust jacket in gold foil paper with original $2.50 price, which has survivied with barely any wear. Seminal jazz age novel about a tragic flapper that was filmed with Greta Garbo. RARE in jacket, especially in this condition.

108 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated black boards in slipcase. First edition. Tiny areas of rubbing at corner tips and joints; otherwise about fine in a slipcase showing light use. Signed on the half-title by Michael Arlen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Michael Arlen - The Acting Version of The Green Hat (SIGNED). Doran (1925). Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in stunning black boards with gold design and print, still quite bright. SIGNED by author on title page. A lovely production. The pages are handmade paper tinted green. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st UK ed, Collins, brown boards, gold lettering. Light wear ends of spine, extremities. Name, date in front 2/2/25. Scan upon request. Dispatched from Hove UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First British edition. Light shelf wear and aging, else very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket. ; 329 pages.

329, [3, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 329, [3, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A major bestseller in its time, and the basis for the 1928 Clarence Brown film A Woman of Affairs featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as Outcast Lady with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall. Brown cloth. near fine, bookplate of Joan Whitney.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Michael Arlen - The Green Hat. Doran (1924). Hardcover. First American Edition. Black cloth. Near Fine in Very Good stunning silver dust jacket slightly chipped at spine ends, price-clipped. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.

108 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated black boards in glassine and slipcase. First edition. Slight rubbing at corner tips; small chips to the glassine wrapper; one inch section of the slipcase top lacking and light use to slipcase at extremities. Signed on the half-title by Michael Arlen and Katharine Cornell. Cornell starred in the Broadway production of The Green Hat in 1925.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). First. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. (chipped at extremes of spine & corners; dust soiled on the white back cover). London: Collins, (1924). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8VO; 329, ads 3 pages; Aprox 1" chip at base of DJ spine, short creases and scrapes to front panel, waterstains. The book itself has very light foxing to front matter and text edges. Laid in undated book dealers receipt for $118. Dust jacket has no words, just b/w photos of Arlens books. Author was a British essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter of Armenian origin who was most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, but he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers. Six or seven of his books were made into movies although Green Hat was not.

FIRST EDITION. Half title; prelims & edges a little spotted, mark to upper edge. Following pastedown v. sl. marked. Orig. brown cloth; small mark to rear board. Black, green & red pictorial d.w., unclipped; sl. rubbed, creased & marked with the odd closed tear. 17-line ALS to 'My dear Seymour' loosely inserted. Bookplate of Michael Diamond on leading pastedown. A nice bright copy of a scarce book. Extremely uncommon in the dustjacket. A kind of Pelham for the Bright Young Things, The Green Hat became a bestseller that exerted an enormous influence on the decade in which it was published - a savage but strangely unmalicious satire that thrilled its Bohemian targets. Arlen (who was born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian and fled persecution in Armenia as a child) was an impeccably dressed, charming and generous dandy who drove about in a bright yellow Rolls Royce and had intimate knowledge of the milieu he was sending up. The protagonist, Iris Storm, was modelled on Nancy Cunard and 'set a new fashion in fatal charmers'. The book's sardonic, sophisticated decadence puts it alongside The Great Gatsby and Brideshead Revisited as one of the defining novels of the 1920s. The novel was hugely controversial in its day, and the film adaptation was released under the title A Woman of Affairs and sanitised the novel's plot (omitting syphilis, heroin use, and homosexuality) to keep the censors onside. The undated 17-line ALS is on notepaper from the May Fair Hotel, round the corner from Shepherd Market where the novel takes place, is affectionate in tone ('will you be a dear fellow and ring me up here when you can get away from Brixton') and ends by perfectly evoking Arlen's love for the setting: 'I can't tell you how excited I am to be back again in the only romantic city in the world'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A major bestseller in its time, and the basis for the 1928 Clarence Brown film *A Woman of Affairs* featuring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Also filmed in 1934 by Robert Z. Leonard as *Outcast Lady* with Constance Bennett and Herbert Marshall. In our experience much scarcer than the English edition. A superlative copy.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1924. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo (20 cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 329pp+3ads. Fore-edge uncut and pages unopened. Jacket lightly soiled and scuffed with toning to spine and joints, creases and minor tears to margins, and larger closed tear to top of front panel. Verso shows more significant toning, particularly to top margin. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with bumps to top margin, light scuffing to back cover, and minor bubbling to cloth at a few edges. Pages uniformly toned with brief pencil to first free endsheet,otherwise pages clean. Overall a Very Good or better example. Arlen's most popular novel, following femme-fatale Iris through Bohemian post-WWI London as she engages in multiple romantic affairs. It was adapted into the 1928 film The Woman of Affairs, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Greta Garbo. To appeal to the censors, the main topics of homosexuality, STDs, and heroin use were written out of the screenplay.