For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. With scarce original “photoplay” dust jacket, illustrated with a scene from the 1926 Roland West film, issued by Grosset & Dunlap after buying Doran’s stock of the volume. First published in the same year by George H. The novel was made into a film a third time in 1959, starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. This later film significantly influenced artist and Batman creator Bob Kane, who counted it one of his favorites: “The formula of shadows, thunderstorms and masked men still influences horror films today, but Kane’s inspiration lay in using this ambience to create the background for a slightly sinister good guy” (Daniels, 20). He would, in 1930, direct a new version entitled The Bat Whispers. Roland West directed the 1926 silent film adaptation of the play, upon which this novel is based. The popular play altered the novel’s plot, making “the supposed official detective the culprit” (Haycraft, 88). With Avery Hopwood she collaborated on The Bat, a dramatization and modification of The Circular Staircase” (ANB). “By the 1920s Rinehart was established as one of America’s most successful and popular writers… In addition, she scored a considerable success in the theater.

Octavo, original yellow cloth, original dust jacket.įirst “photoplay” edition of the novelization of Rinehart and Hopwood’s popular Broadway thriller, in scarce movie tie-in dust jacket. RINEHART, Mary Roberts and HOPWOOD, Avery.

“LIKE A BAT HE NEVER SHOWED HIMSELF TO THE FACE OF DAY”: RINEHART AND HOPWOOD’S THE BAT, 1926, IN SCARCE PHOTOPLAY DUST JACKET

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