Photos/Descriptions
Above
Suspicion Helen MacInnes
(her first novel)
Originally
published 1941 (New York: Little, Brown and Company)
Triangle
Books movie tie-in edition (above left) 1943; Pocket Books paperback (above
center) 1942; Dell paperback (above right) 1963)
2014
"Leaves and Pages" blog review.
Goodreads.com
reader reviews. Biblio.com
publishing info.
All
the Brothers Were Valiant Ben Ames Williams
(his first novel)
Originally
published 1919 (New York: Macmillan).
Other 1919 US editions: Grosset and Dunlap, and E.P. Dutton
(220 pp.; pictured above left).
First UK edition 1920 (London: Mills & Boon).
US movie tie-in edition,
re-titled Across to Singapore, 1928 (pictured above
right)
Project
Gutenberg complete
text. Wikipedia
book info.
Biblio.com
publishing info.
Above:
New York and London hardcovers.
Above:
UK and US paperbacks.
The
Best of Everything Rona Jaffe
Originally
published 1958 (New York: Simon &
Schuster); UK first
pub 1959 (London: Jonathan Cape). Paperbacks
pictured above: UK Pan Giant (left) and /US Pocket Books (both
1959).
Notes:
US HC, 437 pages. Author
Jaffe herself appears on the cover, in front of NYC's Rockefeller
Center (see above). The book was completed in 5 months
and 5 days, and 20th-Century Fox bought it before it was even edited. It made
the NY Times best-seller list on 9/21/58, two weeks after publication.
Wikipedia
book info.
2011
Guardian book review.
2005
NPR book review.
Goodreads.com
reader reviews.
Above:
Jacket of both 1959 US and 1960 UK hardcovers.
 
Above:
Three US Signet paperback covers. Years unknown, but cover prices are,
from left,
75 cents, 95 cents, and $2.25.
Below:
UK Corgi paperback (same cover for various '60s editions)
The
Caretakers
Dariel
Telfer
Originally
published 1959 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 404 pp.); UK first
pub 1960 (London: MacDonald).
 Craig's
Wife George
Kelly
1926 publication
of Kelly's Pulitzer-winning play (Little, Brown and Company). Basis
for Joan's 1950 film, Harriet Craig.
Wikipedia
entry.
Daisy
Kenyon: An Historical Novel 1940 - 1942 Elizabeth Janeway
Originally published
1945 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.); US movie novelization 1948
(New York: Triangle Books, 241 pp.); PB 1947 (New York: Pocket Books)
Kirkus
book review.
Elizabeth
Janeway Wikipedia entry.
Below:
1945 ad for the novel. Click
to
see larger image.
 Dancing
Lady (1932,
NY: Farrar & Rinehart) James
Warner Bellah
Also
serialized in the Saturday Evening Post (v. 204, nos. 44-49)
over 6 weeks, from 4/30/32 thru 6/4/32.
 Dream
of Love
Movie
tie-in novelization.
  The
Duke Steps Out
(1929. Garden City, NY; Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 288 pp.) Lucian
Cary
Goodreads.com
biblio.com
Click
here
to read a 2022 review
by Tom C. on this site.
Above
left:
1942 original Putnam's hardcover. 342 pp. Above
right:
1946 Grosset & Dunlap reprint hardcover.
Above:
1951 Bantam Giant (US) paperback front and back covers.
Below
(from left): 1957 Bantam PB, 1957 Bantam Giant PB, 1961 Corgi (UK)
PB, 1975 German PB.
Flamingo
Road Robert
Wilder
Originally
published 1942 (New York: Putnam's). Reprinted 1946 (New York: Grosset
& Dunlap).
From
the 1946 Grosset & Dunlap reprint front flap: Scandal smears
the closing chapters of this modern Florida novel. It is not a pretty
story. On the contrary, it is as realistic as custom permits. There
is much here of political intrigue at its slimiest, of vice, of
human weakness at its worst. And yet, because of Lane Ballou, the
carnival girl around whom the storm gathers, and because of the
honesty with which Mr. Wilder tells her story, Flamingo Road
is possessed of a dignity and power which makes it an important
novel.
Goodreads.com
reader reviews.
Robert
Wilder Wikipedia entry.
Killercoversoftheweek
blog.
The
Gorgeous Hussy (1934,
Houghton Mifflin) Samuel
Hopkins Adams
(Pictured:
Left: 1934 Houghton Mifflin title page. Right: 1936 Grosset &
Dunlap novelization cover.)
Grand
Hotel Vicki
Baum
German novel "Menschen Im Hotel"
(1929). First published in U.S. as Grand Hotel (1931,
Doubleday,
Doran & Co.).
US film novelization by Grosset & Dunlap (1932).
US Dell PB (1958).
The 1929 German
novel was the basis for the 1931 play and the 1932 movie starring
Joan.
Vicki
Baum Wikipedia page.
PopMatters.com
2016 review.
GoodReads.com
reader reviews.
Above:
German newspaper ad for 1929 novel.
Below:
1931 US first edition (Doubleday, Doran).
Below:
1932 US hardcover film novelization (Grosset & Dunlap)
Below
left:
1940 US Triangle hardcover. Below
right:
1958 US Dell paperback.
Above:
1919 stories by Hurst, and 1920 photoplay.
Below:
1946 movie tie-in edition.
Humoresque:
A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst
Stories
originally
published March 1919 (New York: Harper & Brothers)
1920
photoplay edition (New York: Harper & Brothers; 43 pp.). From
1920 Cosmopolitan silent film featuring Alma Rubens.
1946
US movie tie-in edition: The World Publishing Company (Cleveland
and New York): A Forum Motion Picture Edition (333 pp.)
Hurst
Wikipedia page.
AbeBooks.com
info. Biblio.com
info.
Above
left:
1953 Simon and Schuster hardcover. Above
right:
1954 Hale (UK) hardcover.
Above
left:
1954 US Pocket Books PB cover.
Above
right:
Pocket Books foreword by
Joan.
Above
left:
1954 Elmo (Italy) PB. Above
right:
1975 Heyne (Germany) PB.
Johnny
Guitar Roy
Chanslor
Originally
published 1953 (New York: Simon & Schuster). Published
in UK 1954 (London: Robert Hale). US Pocket Books PB, 1954.
From
the 1954 UK (Hale) front flap: The false fronts of the gambling-houses
in Powderville, Wyoming, were no more false than those worn by Johnny
Guitar, and the girl known as Vienna. Johnny was a gentleman-turned
gambler; his front that of a roving guitar-troubador. Vienna ran
a notorious rendezvous. They said she was The Dancing Kid's
girl and rode with Lonergan's Bunch. She said she didn't
like men; she liked only money. But lynch-law and love sat in on
both their games, and when the chips were down they had to drop
their masks and play their cards the way they fell. This thrilling
and original novel of love and action has been filmed, starring
Joan Crawford.
AbeBooks.com
page.
Kirkus
book review.
Roy
Chanslor IMDb page.
 The
Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937
movie tie-in novelization)
Above:
1930 uncorrected proof title page from Heinemann, and 1931
US Cape & Smith hardcover.
Below:
Novelization covers from Spain, Denmark, US.
 
Letty
Lynton Marie
Belloc Lowndes
Originally
published 1931 by Heinemann (London; 344 pp.). Published 1931 in
US by Cape & Smith (New York; 388 pp.).
Lowndes
Wikipedia page.
Above:
1941 US (Knopf) hardcover, and 1943 UK (Hale) hardcover.
Above:
US (World Publishing Company) 1944 hardcover and 1945 movie
tie-in hardcover.
Above:
US Penguin paperbacks: 1946, 1947, 1948.
Above:
UK Pocket Book paperback (1950), UK Ace paperback (1958),
and US Signet paperback (unknown year).
Above:
US Bantam paperback (unknown year)
Mildred
Pierce James M. Cain
(his third novel)
Originally
published 1941 (New York: Knopf). Published in UK 1943 (London:
Robert Hale). US movie tie-in 1945 (Cleveland and New York: World
Publishing Co.)
James
M. Cain Wikipedia.
AbeBooks.com.
GoodReads.com.
Kirkus
book review.
Complete
Review. Tipping
My Fedora blogspot.
 Mildred Pierce
screenplay (1980, Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Edited with an Introduction by Albert J. LaValley
Description:
"A product of
the Warner Brothers Film Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this
book offers students, researchers, and aficionados insights into individual
films that have never before been possible. This screenplay is the final
shooting version including revisions made during production."
Montana
Moon (movie tie-in edition, 1930)
Donald
H. Clewton
World
Wide Publishing Co. (New York). 187 pp.
Above:
US hardcover (1936, Simon and Schuster) and UK hardcover (1936,
Cassell).
Below:
US paperback (1950, Popular Library), and UK Corgi paperbacks
(1965 and 1971).
Not
Too Narrow, Not Too Deep Richard Sale
Basis
for 1940 movie Strange Cargo.
First
published 1936 in the US (Simon and Schuster). 1936 in the UK (Cassell).
US
Popular Library paperback (1950). UK Corgi paperbacks (1965,
1971).
Kirkus
Reviews
(2/17/36): An unexpected sort of book -- fits no grooves of classification -- hard
to place, hard to indicate sales possibilities. But here goes... There's a
symbolic character -- a spiritual force that dominates the book, which
is the story of nine men who escape a penal colony in the Caribbean --
and of this man, the tenth. There is strange adventure, there is a
pervading sense of the supernatural, there is a sort of terrorism, a
brutality -- and yet never does the author lapse into the lewd or
salacious. The book might be characterized as a strange blend of Mark
Van Doren's The Transients & They Shoot Horses, Don't They? A book
that might ride to popularity on the crest of curiosity, but that seems
more likely to achieve a critical success, with a certain sort of snob
appeal. Watch it.
The
Bystander
(UK, 1936): In Not Too Narrow Not Too Deep
(Cassell 7 s. 6 d.), Mr. Richard Sale takes a well-known theme and
places it in a new setting. Ten men escape from a French penal colony -
regular toughs, they are: murderers, smugglers, spies, and " rapists."
With them travelled an eleventh man. His name was Jean Cambreau, but who
he was and where he came from no one knew. He was " a strange sort of
guy. Sort of compelling motivated by something terrific." The result is
that by the time these hard bitten convicts regain their freedom, they
are " changed " men. They have learnt that in reality each of them "
lies in a grave that is too narrow and too deep. They can't get up and
come out of it. The grave is humanness." I am not very susceptible to
uplift myself, but this book held me by its 'matter-of-fact' tone. It is
written with admirable directness and economy of words, rather as if it
were a cold narrative of events that have actually occurred. This, I
understand, is Mr. Sale's first novel. I shall certainly look out for
his next.
Richard
Sale Wikipedia page.
FrankBellamy.blogspot.com.
MysteryFile.com
blog.
Click
here
to read a 2022 review
by Tom C.
  Old
Clothes (1925, New
York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation)
Novelization
based on story by Willard Mack
Description:
Paperback from "Popular Plays and Screen Library" series. 188 pp.
Photos of
the players on front and back covers, with 3 glossy b/w
film stills inside.
(Reviewed
by reader Tom C. on the Reviews
page.)
The
Only Thing
Elinor
Glyn
  Our
Blushing Brides
At
left: (1933, Jules Tallandier--France)
Simone
Albinet
Description:
96-page movie tie-in, with 30 photos inside.
At
right: 1931 Danish novelization.
Our Dancing Daughters (1928 US
movie tie-in novelization, Grosset & Dunlap)
Winifred Van Duzer
Description: 211 pages. Based on the photoplay by Josephine Lovett and
illustrated with scenes from the MGM Picture.
Sample
Text:
She stood close to the window, black-fringed gray eyes
through which laughter often shimmered as light flutters in deep water now wide
with delighted awe, gay lips parted, flattening her nose against the pane as a
very little girl might have done.
Not that Diana Rand was not little. The distance from the sharp edges of
the highest heels ever worn on Main street to the topmost curl at the crown of
her arrogant young head measured exactly five feet. But when anyone ventured to
address her as "Half Pint", "Small Change", or "Demi Tasse" she was likely to
toss back "Be yourself! I'm nineteen, I guess!" Then she would flash her gamin
grin and rush out to have another lift put on the high heels.
Our Dancing Daughters (1928 UK
movie tie-in novelization, Readers Library)
Winifred Van Duzer
Our
Dancing Daughters (1930
French movie tie-in by Charles Coulonges, 90 pages)
 Our
Modern Maidens
(French movie tie-in)
Out
of the Dark (Basis
for film I Saw What You Did) Ursula
Curtiss
Hardcover
originally published 1964 by Dodd, Mead & Co. ("A Red-Badge
Mystery Novel"). Ace paperback also 1964.
Ursula
Curtiss Wikipedia page.
Paid
Movie tie-in novelization, 1930 (New
York: Grosset & Dunlap). Photoplay based on 1912 play "Within the Law" by Bayard
Veiller.
Novelization by Marvin
Dana
and Veiller.
Below
left:
A 1913 novelization based on the 1912 play (New York: H.K.
Fly). Below
right:
A 1923 novelization released in conjunction with the Norma Talmadge
movie (New York: Grosset & Dunlap).
1912
Broadway play Within
the Law info.
Author
Veillor info.
Dana/Veiller
novelization complete text
from
Project Gutenberg.
Above:
1949 Appleton-Century-Crofts hardcover.
Below:
1950 Bantam PB, and 1966 Bantam Gothic PB.
The
Queen Bee
(Edna
Lee)
Hardcover
first published 1949 by Appleton-Century-Crofts (New York).
US
Bantam paperback, 1950; US Bantam Gothic paperback, 1966.
Originally
serialized in 3 parts in Woman's Home Companion (May-July
1949).
Kirkus
Reviews
(8/1/49): The story of an avid female, this tells of general and assorted bitchiness of Eva as revealed
by her orphan niece, Jennifer. Jennifer comes to Eva's home in Georgia
after the death of her parents, and at first taken in by Eva's smooth
performance, gradually recognizes the venomous life her aunt is living.
She sees what a wreck Eva has made of her husband, Beauty, in her
insidiously insulting behavior, how she has mangled the emotions of her
two children, thwarted Beauty's sister, entangled the man she loves.
Jennifer's growing love for Beauty draws Eva's fire and helps Beauty
fight his alcoholism but when Eva drives his sister to suicide he is at
last fully aroused and kills himself and his wife. A tale of popular
appeal, as was her earlier The Web of Days (which reached a million
copies) even though it nearly overbalances in its unbelievable
exaggeration of the central character.
GoodReads.com
reader reviews.
Edna
Lee IMDb page.
Above:
1932 Grosset & Dunlap movie tie-in edition.
Above:
April 1921 "Smart Set," in which "Miss Thompson"
("Rain") first appeared.
Above:
1921 publications of The Trembling of a Leaf, US (Doran)
and UK (Heinemann).
Above:
1946 Avon hardcover and 1951 Dell paperback.
Rain and Other Stories (movie
tie-in edition 1932, Grosset & Dunlap)
W.
Somerset Maugham
Book
originally
published in 1921 as The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories
of the South Sea Islands (USA: Doran and UK: Heinemann)
"Rain"
story originally published as "Miss Thompson" in the April
1921 issue of The Smart Set magazine.
Maugham
intro to The Trembling of a Leaf from The
Literature Network.
GoodReads.com
reader reviews.
Complete
"Rain" story from The
Literature Network.
Wikipedia
entry
for "Rain" ("Miss Thompson") story. 2016
story review from My
Maugham Collection.
W.
Somerset Maugham
Wikipedia entry.
 The
Shining Hour (Spanish
movie tie-in novelization)
 Sadie
McKee (Spanish
movie tie-in novelization)
 Spring
Fever
(French movie tie-in novelization)
Above:
US Knopf 1953.
Below:
Left -- UK Cassell 1953. Center
--
UK Cassell movie tie-in 1957 (click to see larger photos/text).
Right --
UK "The Book Club"
edition.
  
Below:
Left
--
US PB (Pocket Books, 1954). Rest --
UK PBs (various years).
The
Story of Esther Costello
(HC
published 1953: Knopf in US and Cassell in UK) Nicholas
Monsarrat
bearalley.blogspot.com
(Monsarrat book covers and info) Monsarrat
Wikipedia page
Sudden
Fear (1948)
Edna
Sherry.
Top row: US paperback 1952. 2nd row: France, Ditis,
1952, movie tie-in. And an Italian novelization.
 Susan
and God
Rachel
Crothers
Originally
a 3-act play that ran on Broadway (Plymouth Theatre) for 288 performances
(Oct. 7, 1937 to June 10, 1938).
Published
as book in 1938 (NY: Random House).
Crothers
Wikipedia page.
Crothers
Encyclopedia.com page.
 The
Taxi Dancer Robert
Terry Shannon
(1931:
A.L. Burt Co., New York/Chicago. A reprint of earlier Edward J.
Clode version.)
From biblio-com:
This novel about a rural Southern girl, trying to make it in on her own
in New York, who can only find work as a paid dancing partner in a
"dancing academy" -- which leads to her getting involved with
(successively) a gambler, a dancer, and a millionaire -- was first
published as a syndicated newspaper serial beginning in May 1926. M-G-M
knew surefire movie material when they saw it, and by the beginning of
June it had already been synopsized by the studio's story department; a
full scenario was completed by September, and the resulting movie was
ready for release by the following March....[A]part from its original newspaper serialization, the only other time
this novel appeared in print was four years after the [1927] movie, in an
edition by the minor publisher Edward J. Clode, of which this A.L. Burt
edition was a cheap reprint. (And just so we're clear: this is *not* a
photoplay edition, and in fact makes no reference at all to its earlier
publication or to the existence of the movie; I guess it's possible
there was some link to it provided on the dust jacket, but alas it ain't
here.) So when you look at the entry for the film in the AFI Catalog,
and wonder how a 1927 movie could have been based on a "1931" novel --
now you know. Oh, and by the way, the book in any edition is quite scarce: as of this writing, OCLC records only three institutional copies of the Clode edition, and just two of the Burt printing.
Click
here
to read a 2022 review
by Tom C. on this site.
Today,
We Live William
Faulkner
The 1933 Joan
film was based on the short story "Turn About" by
William Faulkner that originally appeared in the March 5, 1932,
issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
The story was
subsequently published in Faulkner's short-story collection Doctor
Martino and Other Stories (1934, NYC: Smith and Haas).
Full
text of "Turn About." Film
contract info. Movie
and story from engineering perspective
(University of Houston).
Above:
March 5, 1932, issue of The Saturday Evening Post in which
"Turn About" story first appeared.
Below:
1934 Faulkner short-story collection in which story "Turnabout"
first appeared in book form.
 Torch
Song
Kenyon
Nicholson
1930
3-act play that was basis for Joan's 1931 film Laughing Sinners.
The
play ran on Broadway (Plymouth Theatre) for 87 performances, from
August 27, 1930, through November 1930.
Published
as book in 1930 (NY: Samuel French).
Nicholson
Wikipedia page.
 Twelve
Miles Out
(French movie tie-in novelization)
Above:
Cosmopolitan dustjacket and hardcover.
Below:
Grosset & Dunlap title page.
The
Understanding Heart
(Peter
B. Kyne)
Published
in the US in 1926 by both Grosset & Dunlap (374 pp.) and
Cosmopolitan Book Corp. Illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops.
Serialized
in Cosmopolitan magazine (March - September 1926).
Kyne
Wikipedia page.
Text of entire book from us.archive.org.
Above:
1960 hardcover; 1962 movie tie-in PB; Penguin Classics PB.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Henry
Farrell
Originally
published 1960 (New York: Rinehart and Co.).
Paperback
editions: 1962 (New York: Avon/Holt, Rinehart and Winston); Penguin
Classics (year unknown).
Wikipedia
novel page.
Wikipedia
Farrell page.
Goodreads.com
reviews.
 When
Ladies Meet Rachel
Crothers
Originally
a 3-act play that ran on Broadway (Royale Theatre) for 173
performances (Oct. 6, 1932 to March 4, 1933).
Published
as book in 1932 (147 pp; NY: Samuel French).
Crothers
Wikipedia page.
Crothers
Encyclopedia.com page.
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