The Elinor Glyn System of Writing; 3 Vols.

Glyn, Elinor

Verlag: The Author's Press, Publishers, 1922

Beschreibung

LOT OF THREE BOOKS. Does not include Book 4. Very Good 7 1/4" x 5" stiff green paper wraps, title gilt stamped to cover in stylized script, number in silver gilt to cover and spine, previous bookstore stamp to first free endpapers in red ink, previous owner name stamp to bottom edge and to title page, not affecting text block, bumping and shelf wear to edges, small closed tears, minor staining, spine creasing, and crease to top corner of Book 1, crease to back cover and one 1/4" chip to fore-edge of Book 3, else clean and tightly bound, unmarked throughout all volumes. BOOK 1 includes the entire Table of Contents for the series featuring 19 Chapters divided into Parts I (The Elinor Glyn System of Short Story Writing) and II (The Elinor Glyn System of Photoplay Writing), plus supplementary Parts III (Fragments: A Model Short Story and Its Analysis) and IV (The Great Moment: A Model Photoplay), 128pp. including Chapters I-IV of Part I. BOOK 2 includes Chapters X-XVIII of Part I, and I-VII of Part II, includes pages 131-255. BOOK 3 includes Chapters VIII-XIX of Part II, and all of Part III, includes pages 259-384. Part IV is not included in this lot. Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) was a British romance novelist and scriptwriter who held a wide sphere of influence in her lifetime, including on the careers of notable Hollywood actors, especially Clara Bow. It was Elinor Glyn who popularized the concept of the "It" factor as a quality that ".draws all others with a magnetic force". She was a pioneer of risque romantic fiction aimed at a female readership, which was scandalous at the time, and contributed articles for women in Cosmopolitan magazine. On the strength of her writing she secured work as scriptwriter for MGM and Paramount Pictures, and even enjoyed a brief career as one of Hollywood's earliest female directors. This collection of the writing of Elinor Glyn is a significant piece of women authors' history, women scriptwriter history, and the history of silent-film-era Hollywood. This is her instructional work for writers of short stories and photoplays (motion pictures). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00834

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Elinor Glyn System of Writing; 3 Vols.

Verlag: The Author's Press, Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 1922

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Very Good