Torch Song
Nicholson, Kenyon
Published by Samuel French, New York, 1930
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Hardcover
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First printing. A clean and bright fine copy in a NF dust jacket with the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Basis for the 1931 film "Laughing Sinners" directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Neil Hamilton. Dust jacket by Theodore Haupt. Scarce. Seller Inventory # 015000
Bibliographic Details
Title: Torch Song
Publisher: Samuel French, New York
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: NF
Edition: First Edition.
Book Type: Book
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Torch Song A Play in Prologue and Three Acts
Published by
Samuel French, NY, 1930
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Red cloth spine, salmon boards, titled in gilt, burgundy topstain. Very nice copy, unmarked, tight and square, appears unread. The DJ in mylar has slight wrinkle to spine head, $2.00 flap price present. No add'l printings listed. Basis for 1931 movie "Laughing Sinners." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 21955
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Torch Song: A Play in Prologue and Three Acts
Published by
Samuel French, New York, 1930
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj) I.G. Haupt (illustrator). First Edition. [beautiful copy, tight and clean, no discernible wear at all to the book; the jacket has just a bit of wear at the base of the spine and a couple of small tears + associated creasing at the upper left corner of the rear panel]. "A dramatic love story laid against the drab background of a travelling man's hotel in a small midwestern town." The plot concerns a cabaret singer who, after being jilted (in favor of the boss's daughter) by her traveling salesman boyfriend, turns to the Salvation Army for solace; then she meets up with the boyfriend again, and complications ensue. Adapted for the 1931 MGM film LAUGHING SINNERS, with Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton and a young Clark Gable; it was one of a full dozen movies that Gable appeared in that year (three of which starred Crawford). The part of the singer was played in the original Broadway production by Mayo Methot (who later gained some notoriety as the famously contentious Mrs. Humphrey Bogart #3), and was described by The New York Times as "an unpretentious play with a fine, lingering aroma." (The dust jacket illustration for this book had also been used for the front cover illustration of the Dec. 14, 1929 issue of The New Yorker -- a fact which I discovered entirely by accident, and which now has me wondering if this sort of thing happened often.). Seller Inventory # 29661
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TORCH SONG.
Published by
SAMUEL FRENCH., NY, 1930
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in very good+ dust jacket. (A few short edge tears & traces of light shelf-wear to jacket. Shallow chipping at spine extremities. ) Filmed as "Laughing Sinners" with Clark Gable & Joan Crawford. Cover art by Haupt. Seller Inventory # 309790
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Torch Song: A Play in Prologue and Three Acts.
Published by
New York/Los Angeles, Samuel French/London, Samuel French Ltd., 1930., 1930
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial dust jacket with scene of a Salvation Army band by Haupt (unclipped; minor rubbing; soiling to back panel). Very good. Rubberstamp of Samuel French, Los Angeles on the front free endpaper. Filmed in 1931 as "Laughing Sinners" starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Seller Inventory # 225520
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Torch Song
Published by
Samuel French, New York, 1930
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A little sunning at the spine and extremities, very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Barrett H. Clark: "For Barrett - My 'first reader' - Ken Nicholson. Ja. 7, 1931. New York City." Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama, aside from authoring many books, he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French. A play about a traveling salesman who finds love in a small Midwestern town. Basis for the 1931 Harry Beaumont film *Laughing Sinners* with Joan Crawford and her then-lover Clark Gable (who was in the midst of becoming a phenomenon and whose part was greatly expanded and reshot after the initial filming was completed). Scarce. An important association. Seller Inventory # 562122
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