LAURA (Presentation Copy, Inscribed In The Year Of Issue)
Language: English
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA
AbeBooks seller since June 12, 2009
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 1,924.86
Quantity: 1 available
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Caspary, Vera. LAURA. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944). First U. K. Edition. A Near Fine copy in original publisher's blue cloth (a trifle rubbed at spine tips, front hinge just beginning to start) in a Very Good example of the iconic Bip Pares-designed original priced (8/6) dust jacket. The dust jacket bears honest overall wear, no major faults or repair, and plenty of eye appeal. This is a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed from the author on the half-title to two of her closest friends in the year of publication: "For the Gellatts/ With love/ Vera/ June 8th, 1944." Roland Gelatt (1920-1986) was a music critic and author, best known for his book "The Fabulous Phonograph," an urbane, sophisticated history of recorded sound from the wax cylinder era onwards. He and his wife Lois were lifelong friends of Vera Caspary. [WITH:] An Autographed Note, signed (New York, 1982) containing a long and rather droll inscription from Caspary to the Gelatts proving the longevity (and levity) of their friendship. True first printings of LAURA are exceedingly rare; inscribed or signed copies are nearly impossible to acquire. LAURA's cultural value was massively amplified by the Oscar-winning 1944 Otto Preminger-directed Film Noir of the same name starring Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb, one of the American Film Institute's Top Ten Film Mysteries. This is the only inscribed copy of the first U. K. edition currently known to us.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- LAURA (Presentation Copy, Inscribed In The Year Of Issue)
- Author
- Caspary, Vera
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Publication year
- 1944
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Bip Pares
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- Books Into Film, Film Noir, Mystery Novels
Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA
Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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We are antiquarian booksellers located in Mill Valley, California and have been buying and selling rare books and manuscripts since 1993. We are also members in good standing of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Our stock is select. Our emphasis, whenever possible, is on superb condition, rarity, literary importance and generally falls into two categories: 19th and early 20th Century Manuscripts and First Editions...and 20th Century Manuscripts and First Editions which have source relevance to Cinema.…
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