Four Sons (Mother Bernie Learns Her Letters and Other Stories)
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY U.S.A, 1928
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.Bargain Finders of Colorado
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Story about a Bavarian mother's four sons - one goes to America and the other three, who remain Europe, are killed in the First World War - was made into a tear jerker and big box office success titled "Four Sons" in 1928 by John Ford starring Margaret Mann and James Hall. Illustrated with 1 fontispiece still and 7 interior stills from this William Fox photoplay. The movie was remade by Archie Mayo in 1940 under the same title. Her story "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters", was 1st published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1926 and forms basis of those movies. 7 other stories included in this volume. Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (1885–1959), known by her pen name I.A.R. Wylie, was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, short story writer, and poet and suffragette sympathiser, who was honored by the journalistic and literary establishments of her time, and was known around the world. Between 1915 and 1953, more than thirty of her novels and stories were adapted into films. Hardcover has gray cloth boards with navy lettering on front & spine, but no DJ. Sunburnt spine worn at top & bottom, lightly soiled, but complete. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. Collection of 8 stories has 6 copyright dates from 1921 through 1928, but no copyright asserted for this book as a collection. No edition nor printing info found. 1st Thus both as this collection of stories and to capitalize on 1928 film. No CIP, ISBN, LCCN nor MSR. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Four Sons (Mother Bernie Learns Her Letters and Other Stories)
- Author
- I. A. R. Wylie
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY U.S.A
- Publication year
- 1928
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- William Fox photoplay (Four Sons, 1928)
- Edition
- First Thus
- Item weight
- 1 pound
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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