Grosset & Dunlap photoplay hardcover

Grosset & Dunlap photoplay hardcover

reissue to accompany the 1946 MGM adaptation directed by Robert Montgomery

First Photoplay Edition of Chandler’s THE LADY IN THE LAKE (1947), nicely inscribed by director and lead actor Robert Montgomery.

September 22, 2013

[post updated 2/2/25]

1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover

1932 Grosset & Dunlap hardcover

“True First Edition (and Photoplay Edition of sorts). Mach Tey dustjacket art featuring the actress Louise Brooks. Author’s first book. Chicago underworld, gang warfare and murder. ‘You’ll love this heroine who staked her life to save her brother from the trap into which they had both fallen’.”