Windfall by Andrews Robert (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. PUBLISHER: The John Day Co. DATE/EDITION: 1931, First edition, no added printings indicated BINDING: Hardbound in tan cloth with red lettering and decorations on the front cover and spine, 280 pages DUST JACKET: The jacket is priced 2.50 on the front flap. There are one and a half inch blind tears at the top front spine edge and the top rear flap crease and some light chipping at the top spine end. The spine is sun toned but lettering and decorations are still clear. Overall condition is good plus. BOOK CONDITION: The book is very good with sharp corners, bright lettering and decorations and clean covers. There is a small sticker from Pomeroy's attached to the rear free end paper otherwise the interior is very clean and unmarked. The binding is tight.

photoplay edition small corner chips. near fine book in a very good + jacket, rear rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Copyright Date Is 1934, First Edition, First Printing, White Cloth Ruled And Lettered In Red, Publisher's Dust Jacket. First Edition. Basis For The Film "If I Had A Million" Starring Gary Cooper. Slight Wear And Creasing To Edges Of Jacket, Closed Tears; Faint Sunning To Volume Spine; Near Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. 280 pages. Original silver metallic paperback binding with red printing and decoration; moderately worn and a corner piece chipped off; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. According to Theodore Dreiser's library (No. 794), a few advance copies of the novel, Windfall, were published and distributed under the title, Glamor. Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews (1903-1976) was a reporter, then city editor for the Minneapolis Journal and later of Midweek for the Chicago Daily News. He was also a writer-producer for radio, motion pictures and television, author of books, screenplays, television scripts and short stories, film production executive in India and Egypt; consultant to U.S. firms in the Far East. Born in Effingham, Kansas; attended University of Minnesota, Northwestern, University of Chicago. Ten people, chosen at random from the Chicago city directory, are bequeathed $1,000,000 upon the death of a multimillionaire. Set in Chicago in the 1920's. Size: Octavo (8vo). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in an externally very good plus dustwrapper with several internal brown paper tape repairs, and some overall soiling. At the whim of a dying Croesus, ten people, including a prostitute, a prizefighter, a bum, a stockbroker, a stenographer, etc., are each given a million dollars. Basis for the 1932 film *If I Had a Million.* The film was broken into segments following the fortunes of the various newly minted millionaires, each segment with its own director. The directors included James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar Mendes, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, and Norman Taurog. Appearing in the film (most as the recipients of windfalls) were Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft, Jack Oakie, Richard Bennett, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, and W.C. Fields. The Fields and Skipworth segment, where they use their new found fortune to buy a fleet of cars and hire drivers to run road hogs off the road, is a comic classic. The premise also inspired the popular 1950s television series *The Millionaire.*.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, very good, bookplate on front pastedown, no other markings or writing. In good dust jacket, unfortunately missing about two inches from bottom of spine, with original price on the front flap. Made into the moview "If I Had A Million." Very scarce in dust jacket.