The Beast of the City Photoplay Edition
1932ref. 30203New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good. c.1932. First Edition. Hardcover. lacking the original dust jacket but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing general shelfwear and some deterioration to cloth at base of spine but generally a good sound copy. 4 B&W film stills Novelization of the 1932 film starring Jean Harlow who appears in all four of the stills illustrating the text a gangster tale that was about as down-and-urban-gritty as M-G-M ever got. Warner Bros. was the more natural habitat for this sort of picture. The film represented one of Burnett's earliest Hollywood story credits the actual dialogue being supplied by John Lee Mahin himself no slouch in the hard-boiled department. A terrific feature of this book is an 18-page "Underworld Glossary" with definitions and even occasionally etymological mini-essays for several hundred terms some of them fabulously arcane. Bet you don't know what it means to "Norton-and-Egan" somebody; just hope it never happens to you. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
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