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 including:
G. M. Anderson (3), Richard Arlen, Edward Arnold (2), George Arthur (2), Arthur Ashley (2), Nils Asther, Mary Astor, Edwin August (11), Lew Ayres (2), Leah Baird (7), Theda Bara (2), Ethel Barrymore (7), Lionel Barrymore (5), Richard Barthelmess (8), Elliot Baxter, Beverly Bayne (13), Mary Beland, Madge Bellamy, Joan Bennett, Bronco Billy (2), Constance Binney (2), Carlyle Blackwell (11), Monte Blue (3), Betty Blythe (3), Eleanor Boardman, William Body, Mary Boland (2), Frank Borzage (2), William Boyd, Herbert Brenon (2), Betty Bronson (2), Louise Brooks (2), Billie Burke (7), Francis X. Bushman (19), Donald Cameron, Nancy Carroll, Ruth Chatterton, Naomi Childers (2), Ina Claire, Betty Ross Clarke, Ethel Clayton (11), William Collier, Jr. (2), Betty Compson (6), Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Ricardo Cortez, Donald Crisp, Irving Cummings (14), Viola Dana (3), Jean Darling, Marion Davies (3), Hazel Dawn (8), Philippe De Lacy (2), Cecil B. de Mille (2), Dolores del Rio, Charles Delaney, Jack Dempsey, Carol Dempster, Reginald Denny, Marie Doro (11), Billie Dove, Louise Dresser, Edward Earle (3), Madge Evans (5), Charles Farrell, Louise Fazenda (8), Elsie Ferguson (4), Helen Ferguson (2),Margarita Fischer (7), Earle Foxe (7), Mary Garden (4), Janet Gaynor (2), Hoot Gibson, Dorothy Gish (8), Lillian Gish (13), Louise Glaum (6), Ethel Grandin (8), Ralph Graves (3), Gilda Gray, Charlotte Greenwood (3), Florence Hackett (2), Raymond Hackett, Creighton Hale (6), Ella Hall (4), Hale Hamilton, Neil Hamilton (2), Virginia Hammond, Genevieve Hamper, Hope Hampton, Kenneth Harlan (2), Raymond Hatton (5), Sessue Hayakawa (4), Dell Henderson, Alice Hollister (5), Taylor Holmes (4), Hedda Hopper, Edward Everett Horton, Reed Howes, Gareth Hughes (2), Henry Hull, Glenn Hunter, Raymond Hutton, Charlotte Ives, Else Janis (3), Leatrice Joy, Alice Joyce (14), Buster Keaton (2), Ian Keith, Annette Kellerman (4), Norman Kelly, Paul Kelly (4), Madge Kennedy (6), Norman Kerry (3), Winifred Kingston (7), James Kirkwood (5), Clarence Kolb, Edmund Lane, Rod La Rocque (5), Francine Larrimore (2), Jesse L. Lasky (2), Lila Lee (5), Lillian Leighton (3), Marion Leonard (9), Sheldon Lewis (2), Frank Lloyd, Harold Lloyd (4), Edmund Lowe, Bert Lytell (3), Mary MacLaren (2), Fania Marinoff (3), Frances Marion, Enid Market, Enid Markey (8), Mae Marsh (16), Vivian Martin (9), Shirley Mason (2), Ken Maynard, Francis McDonald (2), Kathlyn Williams Monte, Matt Moore (5), Tom Moore (11), Victor Moore (5), Lee Moran, Antonio Moreno (8), Lee Morgan, Chester Morris, James Morrison (6), Jack Mulhall (4), Mae Murray (7), Carmel Myers (3), Conrad Nagel, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Evelyn Nesbit (2), Anna Q. Nilsson (7), Ramon Novarro (3), Elliot Nugent, Eugene O’Brien (10), George O'Brien, Pat O’Malley (4), Nance O’Neil (6), Seena Owen (4), Jean Paige, Paul W. Panzer (5), Harriet 'Baby' Parsons (2), Virginia Pearson (3), Ann Pennington (6), House Peters (6), Mary Philbin, Dorothy Phillips (3), Mary Pickford (25), Zasu Pitts (2), Eddie Polo (2), Guy Bates Post, William Powell, Tom Power, Tom Powers (3), Aileen Pringle, Edna Purviance (5), Marjorie Rambeau (3), Florence Reed (5), James Rennie, Billie Rhodes (2), Cleo Ridgely (3), Blanche Ring (2), Jason Robards, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (2), Thomas W. Ross, Alexander Salvini, Joseph Schildkraut, Mack Sennett (10), Oscar Shaw, Marguerite Snow (10), Anita Stewart (9), Lucille Lee Stewart (2), Fred Stone, Edith Storey (8), Gloria Swanson (9), Blanche Sweet (13), Mabel Taliaferro (6), Constance Talmadge (6), Rose E. Tapley (5), Ruth Taylor, Frank M. Thomas, Ernest Truex, Lenore Ulric (6), Grace Valentine (2), Virginia Valli (3), Wally Van (3), Victor Varconi, Theodore Von Eltz, June Walker, Lillian Walker (10), George Walsh (5), H. B. Warner (5), Robert Warwick (8), Bryant Washburn (8), Niles Welch (4), Claire Wiindsor, Crane Wilbur (4), Kathlyn Williams (16), Lois Wilson (5), Claire Windsor, Peggy Wood, Clara Kimball Young (2).
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! Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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