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  First Edition of James Hilton's The Story of Dr. Wassell; inscribed by Dr. Corydon M. Wassell; signed by the cast of the 1944 film adaptation; Including Cecil B. DeMille, Gary Cooper and Laraine Day

  HILTON, James [Cecil B. DeMille.

  The Story of Dr. Wassell.

  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943.

  First edition, early printing of this biographical narrative based on the real-life heroism of Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, basis for the classic film. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. Corydon M. Wassell at the top of the front free endpaper, "To Lorene Welton. Kind regards. Com dr. C. M. Wassell, (M.C.) U.S.N.R. Aug. 1943." Additionally signed on the front free endpaper and half-title page by his wife Madeline Wassell and the cast of the 1944 film adaptation including director Cecil B. DeMille, actors Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Carol Thurston, Paul Kelly, Signe Hasso, Elliott Reid, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Renny McEvoy, Oliver Thorndike, and others. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by George F. Kelley. A unique example. 

  Price: $3,000.00     Item Number: 148748

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  "That day so well remembered - a day, indeed, impossible to forget - was the first of September, 1921": First Edition of James Hilton's So Well Remembered, Signed by Him

  HILTON, James.

  So Well Remembered.

  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.

  First edition of James Hilton's later novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Sincerely, James Hilton." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips to the spine. Jacket illustration by George Picken.

  Price: $250.00     Item Number: 90801

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