Grapewin Charles (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Spine mildly soiled, minor shelf wear, crease to the lower spine, else a very good copy; internally clean; lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author (as Charley Grapewin) to the front endpaper. The author Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (1869-1956), was a vaudeville and circus performer, writer, and stage and film character actor who worked in over 100 modern pictures who is best known to modern audiences for portraying Uncle Henry in MGM's film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). A scarce novel of romance, financial success and gambling. Charley Grapewin's signature is quite rare. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First Edition. A romance of "fabulous wealth" in which a woman finds herself after running away to Chicago with a "spectacular night-club manager, an honest gambler - Monty Rogers". Grapewin was a well known Hollywood actor of the time, best best remembered as Dorothy's loveable Uncle Henry in the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Near Fine with contemporary bookplate at front free endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicking to spine ends, top and bottom edge of verso with thin and unobtrusive strip of paper tape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Grapewin on the front flyleaf. Scarce novel about a woman's adventures in Chicago's nightclub scene, written by the veteran actor best known for his role as Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with burgundy-stamped titling. Internally crisp and clean. The spine is ever so slightly toned, with very light bumping to the tips. Some minor shelfwear to the dust jacket, with a pair of scratches to the rear panel and a few tape reinforcements to the verso; otherwise very good. Signed.…

First Edition. Near fine slightly used copy in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears and a faint vertical crease to the spine. A dramatic novel with elements of romance and high finance. Charles Grapewin (1869 - 1956) began his career as an aerialist and trapeze artist before he turned to acting, first on the stage, and then in motion pictures. He gained popularity in his later years, appearing in memorable roles in such films as The Petrified Forest (1936) with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, The Good Earth (1937) with Paul Muniand Luise Rainer, and They Died with Their Boots On (1941) with Errol Flynn. However, his best remembered roles were as DorothyÕs loveable Uncle Henry in the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), the disgruntled Grandpa Joad, who refused to leave the homestead, in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), as Inspector Queen in the Ellery Queen whodunits that ran from 1940 through 1942, and as the amiable ne'er-do-well Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941).…