When the Movies Were Young.

GRIFFITH, Mrs D. W. (Linda Arvidson),(1884-1949).

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1925. [Early film] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; [2]; 256; [6]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, textured paper covered boards, paper title labels to spine and upper, fore and tail edge untrimmed. With a photographic frontispiece and fifteen further double sided photographic plates. Inscribed by the author to flyleaf: "For | L.N. Fearn Esq | With appreciation | and all good wishes | of the author | Linda A. Griffith | New York City | April | 1931". Some occasional light spotting, more so around plates. Some toning and spotting to edges. Boards rubbed and a little bumped to extremities. An uncommon title, rare signed. Very good. The biography of the early American film star and first wife of the famed director David Wark Griffith. Item #55783

Price: £275.00