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WALLACE, Edgar (1875-1932) and Merian C. COOPER. King Kong. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932.
8° (206 x 135mm). Original green cloth, upper side and spine lettered in brown, top edge brown, photo-illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's advertisement on verso; later green morocco-backed clamshell case (cloth lightly soiled and with lower corners lightly bumped, dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and light wear at the extremities).
FIRST EDITION of the novelization of one of film history's great classics. In a very good example of the fragile dust-jacket. Volumes have been written about the making of King Kong, the masterpiece of stop-motion animation and the extraordinary technical achievements that this film embodied. RKO's most successful film came about as a consequence of the company's dire financial situation in 1931. This led the studio's new head of production, David O' Selznick, to bring in businessman, adventurer and documentary maker Merian C. Cooper to evaluate projects and implement Selznick's cost-cutting regime, and on whom King Kong's daring and reckless film producer Carl Denham is loosely based.
8° (206 x 135mm). Original green cloth, upper side and spine lettered in brown, top edge brown, photo-illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's advertisement on verso; later green morocco-backed clamshell case (cloth lightly soiled and with lower corners lightly bumped, dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and light wear at the extremities).
FIRST EDITION of the novelization of one of film history's great classics. In a very good example of the fragile dust-jacket. Volumes have been written about the making of King Kong, the masterpiece of stop-motion animation and the extraordinary technical achievements that this film embodied. RKO's most successful film came about as a consequence of the company's dire financial situation in 1931. This led the studio's new head of production, David O' Selznick, to bring in businessman, adventurer and documentary maker Merian C. Cooper to evaluate projects and implement Selznick's cost-cutting regime, and on whom King Kong's daring and reckless film producer Carl Denham is loosely based.
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