Signed
Behind the Screen
Association copy, Inscribed to Marcus Loew, 1923
Presentation copy inscribed by Samuel Goldwyn to film pioneer Marcus Loew: “To Marcus Loew / Whose friendship I value most highly. / With great admiration and good wishes / Samuel Goldwyn.” An exceptional association between two of the central figures in the development of the American motion picture industry. Published in 1923, shortly after Goldwyn's departure from Goldwyn Pictures and just before Loew acquired the company and combined it with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer's studio to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates of prominent figures of the silent-film era.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, red cloth. New York: George H. Doran, 1923. #11516.
Good or better. Red cloth rubbed and faded, with wear and light fraying at the spine ends and corners. Hinges beginning to separate but still firm. Frontispiece partially loose, with some edge nicks; small stain affecting the preliminary leaves and frontispiece. Final leaf affixed to the rear pastedown. In a good dust jacket, rubbed and soiled, with edge tears, splitting along the folds, and losses at the spine ends and lower corner of the rear flap. Some staining to the verso.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, red cloth. New York: George H. Doran, 1923. #11516.
Good or better. Red cloth rubbed and faded, with wear and light fraying at the spine ends and corners. Hinges beginning to separate but still firm. Frontispiece partially loose, with some edge nicks; small stain affecting the preliminary leaves and frontispiece. Final leaf affixed to the rear pastedown. In a good dust jacket, rubbed and soiled, with edge tears, splitting along the folds, and losses at the spine ends and lower corner of the rear flap. Some staining to the verso.