Smith Goes Washington by Landery Charles (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1940. First Edition. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned with heavy foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Adapted from Frank Capra's Columbia Picture. Story by Lewis R.Foster. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman. 178 pages. Illustrated, including illustrations of the people in the picture (James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains and others). Boards are worn with some marks, but text is in good plus condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Type: Book Reprint, same year as first edition. Darkening to edges of boards. Foxing to end papers and edges of pages. Dust jacket is in poor condition with loss to corners and edges, several closed tears and rubbing. Dust jacket in protective plastic sleeve. (MODERN FIRSTS).

Hardcover. Octavo, 178 pages. In Fair minus condition. Lacks dust jacket. Spine is tan with purple print. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are tan with purple print. Wear to spine caps and corners, small stains on front, smudging/shelf wear. Text block has spotting to front endpapers, newly replaced rear endpapers, cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks, ink scrawling on several pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and b&w stills from film. Film credits on title page: "Story by Lewis R. Foster, screen play by Sidney Buchman". 1370356. FP New Rockville Stock.

first edition 178pp ills.[b/w stills from the movie] VG+ (tan cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.w.minor scuff to fore-edge of upper board,owner's sign.to front pastedown and ffep,prelims.and edges sl.foxed o/w contents clean,spine cracked and sl.shaky) lacks d/w.

2nd edition. Large 8vo. 178pp. Brown cloth with purple scrolling lettering on cover and spine. Orange dw with photo of stars together looking back, black lettering, not price clipped 2s 6d net. neat dedication dated 'Xmas 1943' on ep. Covers : slight 2cm scratch rear cover, very slight shelf knock front top corner else very clean & bright. Contents : slight foxing to prelims, trails and outside edges of pages else very clean & tight. Dw : light fade to spine, 2cm closed tear rear edge, slight shelf rub bottom spine else very clean & unchipped. Bright copy in unchipped dw. VG+/VG.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-Library Book with usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the British release of classic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington signed by the filmÕs star Jimmy Stewart on the front free endpaper. Ownership signature on the front pastedown. The film was directed by Frank Capra and co-starred Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, and Thomas Mitchell. Illustrated with 32 photographs and only issued in Britain with no U.S. version. Very good copy with a touch of foxing to the endpapers and cloth and some darkening to the spine in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a 1/2Ó tear to the front panel and a few tiny chips and tears. Enclosed in a custom morocco and cloth clamshell box. The film won an Oscar for Best Writing - Original Story and was nominated for 10 more; Best Picture, Best Actor (James Stewart), Best Supporting Actor (Carey and Rains), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Recording, Best Editing, and Best Music - Scoring (Dimitri Tiomkin).

Photoplay reprint edition issued to coincide with the British release of the Frank Capra directed classic film starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey, and Thomas Mitchell. Illustrated with 32 photographs and only issued in Britain with no U.S. version. Very good copy, with very slight rubbing without dust jacket. Scarce.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Landery and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Leo McCabe with best wishes and congratulations on a grand performance in the broadcast of 'Mr. Smith' from Charles Landery." McCabe read the voice Senator Joseph Payne in the 1940 BBC radio adaptation. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in purple. Very Good. Dust-soiled, foxed and a bit musty. In a like dust jacket, which is also sunned and edge-tattered. The novelization of Frank Capra's 1939 film bearing the same title.

LANDERY, Charles. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON. Adapted From Frank Capra's Columbia Picture. Story by Lewis R. Foster. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman. London: J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, [1940]. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First English Edition- released to coincide with the British release of the classic film, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Harry Carey and Thomas Mitchell. There is no similar U.S. version. Illustrated with 32 photographs from the movie. Scarce! Signed presentation from Landery on the front endpaper: "To Jimmie Edmunds, the British James Stewart. With best wishes from his pal Charlie Landery." Edmunds has also penned a presentation on the same page: "My dear Vivienne, Remember me always, Jim." The film received nine Academy Award nominations. Very Good (some soil covers with moderate foxing endpapers); edgewear (small chips & tears with several internal repairs with tape) d/j. Enclosed in a custom-designed, leather and cloth clam-shell box, with a gilt-worked spine and a depiction- in leather onlays- of a man's silhouette bordered by large Roman-style columns (bookplate on inside front cover box). $2500.00.