When The Movies Were Young (in original dust jacket)
New York: Dutton, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in royal blue cloth with title lables front board and spine. 256 pp. profusely illustrated with full page photographs. A bright, fine copy, slight bump at one corner, paper title labels bright. In the scarce pictorial dust wrapper illustrated front, spine and rear with a collage of early film stars. A strong copy of the pictorial jacket with only some wear at the spine edges and tips. Extremely uincommon in jacket. Wife of the immortal director D.W. Griffith tells the story of the early days of the movies when the Gish Sisters were still looking for jobs, Chaplin was a low salaried vaudeville performer and Pickford worked for $5 a day. Mrs. Griffith, better known back in the day by her stage name Linda Arvidson, worked in the early days of the silent movies with her husband at the Biograph Company on 14th Street in New York City; she was one of the "Biograph G256 pp. Profusely illusteratedirls", the actresses not credited in the films until after 1913. Fine / very good. Item #E32855
Price: $550.00