The Last of Mrs. Cheyney [Photoplay Edition]

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1929). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [slight deterioration to cloth at spine ends, light dust-soiling to top of text block, previous owner's signature on front endpaper, with same owner's small "ex libris" bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is lightly spotted, with small tears and minor paper loss at spine extremities, a bit of edgewear, one small closed tear at top of rear panel]. (4 B&W film stills) Photoplay edition to tie in with the 1929 M-G-M film adaptation of the Lonsdale play, a starring vehicle for Norma Shearer (her second talkie). She plays a charming Australian widow who's in league with a notorious jewel thief who's posing as her butler, while she's also being romanced by a British lord (played by Basil Rathbone). Norma Shearer appears in all four of the stills bound into the book, as well as on the front panel of the photographic dust jacket; Rathbone is depicted in just one, the frontispiece, in which he's in a clinch with Shearer. Never a studio to let a good property go to waste, M-G-M remade the film in 1937, with Joan Crawford. .