COOLIDGE–RASK, Marie (1872–1949). London After Midnight. London After Midnight. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1928].

8vo. 8 plates after photographs of scenes from the “lost film”. Original olive–green cloth lettered in black (rear hinge cracked, some light fraying at extreme ends and corners); original dust jacket (some discrete restoration along edges, repaired closed tear on spine panel, few tiny spots of professional inpainting to front panel); folding box. Provenance: Anthony Tate (ownership stamp on rear pastedown).

FIRST PHOTOPLAY EDITION containing the bulk of what remains of Lon Chaney’s 1927 silent film, as the last known copy of the movie was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Miller, Photoplay Editions p. 87.