Photoplay Edition Set of 8, Movie Tie-In Books From Major Studios, Circa Early 20th Century

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For your consideration a set of 8 Photoplay Movie Tie In Hard Bound Books.

Very Rare set published in the … Read more For your consideration a set of 8 Photoplay Movie Tie In Hard Bound Books.

Very Rare set published in the early 20th century. All volumes have dust jackets in plastic preservation sleeves.

Photoplay edition refers to movie tie-in books of the silent film and early sound era at a time when motion pictures were known as "photoplays". Typically, photoplay editions were reprints of novels additionally illustrated with scenes from a film production. Less typically, photoplay editions were novelizations of films, where the film script was fictionalized in narrative form. Today, vintage photoplay editions are sought after by film buffs, bibliophiles, and collectors.

The first photoplay editions were published around 1912, and as a genre, they reached their height in the 1920s and 1930s. Thousands of different titles were issued in the United States. Most photoplays were published in hardback by companies like Grosset & Dunlap or A. L. Burt, and some in soft cover by companies like Jacobsen Hodgkinson. Similar movie related books were also published in England, France and elsewhere.

Typically, photoplay editions of the 1920s and 1930s contained stills and/or a dust jacket featuring artwork or actors from a film. Deluxe editions might also contain a special binding, illustrated end papers, or rarely, a written introduction by the star of the film. Sometimes, the spine or cover of the book will note the edition is a "photoplay edition."

Illustrated movie tie-in books continued to be published though the 1940s, 1950s, and into the 1960s.

This set of 8 contains the following Photoplay Hardbound Editions from these Hollywood films:

Feet of Clay (1924)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Paramount Pictures


The Squaw Man (1931)
Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
MGM Pictures


If I Had a Million (1932)
Directed by
James Cruze ... (segment "Death Cell") (uncredited)
H. Bruce Humberstone ... (segment "The Forger") (uncredited)
Ernst Lubitsch ... (segment "The Clerk") (uncredited)
Norman Z. McLeod ... (segments "China Shop", "Road Hogs") (uncredited)
Lothar Mendes ... (uncredited)
Stephen Roberts ... (segments "Violet", "Grandma") (uncredited)
William A. Seiter ... (segment "The Three Marines") (uncredited)
Norman Taurog ... (segments "Prologue", "Epilogue") (uncredited)
Paramount Pictures


Outcast Lady (1934)
Directed by
Robert Z. Leonard
MGM Pictures


Heaven on Earth (1931)
Directed by
Russell Mack
Bert Glennon ... (uncredited)
Universal Pictures


Sky Bride (1932)
Directed by
Stephen Roberts
Paramount Pictures


Shanghai Lady (1929)
Directed by
John S. Robertson
Universal Pictures


Beggars of Life (1928)
Directed by
William A. Wellman
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation


This set makes an extremely gorgeous display with very colorful, original and iconic dust jackets in place. These are all ORIGINALS and not copies or reproductions.

This is an impossible to find artifact of the early Hollywood Motion Picture Industry.

Wonderful display for your library, media room, bookshelf, office or studio lobby.

Vintage hollywood equipment artifacts available as bookends for a superb look and at additional cost.

Shadow Box Framing also available at additional cost.

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