Description: THE BLUE ANGEL by HEINRICH MANN. Publisher: Readers Library Publishing Co, London, believed 1930. Hard cover, burgundy cloth gilt, 12mo. First English Edition, first "book of the film" edition, and first to use the title The Blue Angel, after the German edition of 1905, entitled "Professor Unrat", and preceding the 1932 Jarrolds printing). The title page mentions the Ufa Wardour Picture (directed by Josef von Sternberg) starring Emil Jannings and a young Marlene Dietrich. No stills were called for in this printing. Dietrich was catapulted to stardom by this film. The story satirizes he hypocrisy of German bourgeois society and features Professor Mud, who discovers that his pupils are frequenting a club called The Blue Angel and are ardent admirers of an "actress woman", Rosa Frölich. A very rare and collectable edition, in nearly FINE condition, without dust jacket. Only one other copy of this rare film edition is available on the internet at the time of listing, and mine has the lower price. Please examine all the photographs to satisfy yourself of its condition, which is at least VG. It will be sent FREE to UK addresses by Special Delivery, fully insured. Or you can collect it and pay cash.
Price: 548.59 GBP
Location: EDGWARE
End Time: 2024-12-11T16:34:07.000Z
Shipping Cost: 54.36 GBP
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardback
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: LONDON
Signed: No
Publisher: Readers Library Publishing Co.
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1930
Language: English
Special Attributes: FILM EDITION, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Fiction Subject: PRE-WAR GERMANY
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: HEINRICH MANN
Region: GERMANY
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
