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Silent Screen

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Silent Screen

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Auction Date:2011 Dec 07 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. First edition. NY: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1953. Hardcover with dustjacket, 9.5 x 12.5, 334 pages. Signed and inscribed in ink throughout the book to author Daniel Blum by approximately 1,600 icons of the silent film era (with most signing by their photos), including Buster Keaton, Billie Burke, Jack Dempsey, Cecil D. de Mille, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Dolores Del Rio, Constance Talmadge, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Mark Sennett, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Jesse Lasky, Mae Marsh, Mae Murray, Gloria Swanson, Theda Bara, Jackie Coogan, Pola Negri, Ramon Novarro, Hoot Gibson, Bill Boyd, Janet Gaynor and William Powell, and many more. A more comprehensive list is available via email at tricia@rrauction.com. Light toning and rubbing throughout, four pieces of reparative tape along the front hinge, which is loose, but intact, light brushing to some of the signatures, and areas of paper loss and moderate tears to the dust jacket, otherwise very good condition. A once-in-a-lifetime grouping of the most familiar faces of the silent screen!