[MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Martin
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Re: [MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Jeff Potokar
tom, how can this copy of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA be from 1911? the film was released in 1925, so the fact that there are studio stills in this book means that this had to have been published sometime after 1925. so unless the publisher took copies printed in 1911 and added photos and that

Re: [MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Martin
Ok the books only date is tat Bobbs - Merrill 1911- which I assume ws when the story ws written I aggree that the photoplay would be after or dureing 1925 or perhaps later hwowever the book has no other date which is strange itself.. there are no copyright notices or anything so this is a odd

Re: [MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Martin
well n th opening page it has a pictuture with Chaney in it as the phantom so perhaps this is why 7 -10 year ago this book was listed as worth 400.00 on ab bookman or maybe the illustrtor... I have forgot buy surely its worth 75.00 to someone// I would guess its 1925 -27 as ive had loads of

Re: [MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
books frequently have only the original copyright date, or the copyright date that that particular company first published the title the Phantom book is from 1925 as photoplay editions (which I have collected for 30+ years) are published to coincide with the release of the film sometimes you

Re: [MOPO] MOPO -F/a LON Chaney Phantom of Opera 1911-Its a wonderful life

2008-04-16 Thread Tom Martin
found it listed on antiQbooks.com for 245.00 by Hyde brothers books. So my 75.00 is a steal. and i was correct... Just typed what was written in the pages thats all.. the other bookseller seem to descibe as same as i did.. and they are just booksellers. So you would think they would know