[Rarebooks] FS: Hollywood Girl, 1929 novel

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McEvoy, J. P.   Hollywood Girl.   [New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929].   First edition.   8vo, quarter blue cloth and paper boards, in the original dustjacket and publisher’s promotional wrap-around band.   [iv], 243 pp.   Some spotting to the spine and light fading to the edges of the boards, a hint of rubbing to the spine ends of the jacket, but still a fine copy. 







McEvoy’s second novel, following on the heels of Show Girl, which was made into a movie and a Ziegfield Follies musical.   McEvoy, in fact, wrote for the Follies from 1924 to 1926, and authored several musicals and plays as well. 







This novel takes the form of correspondence, fake telegrams, press releases, “scenes” with stage direction and actors’ lines, etc.   The whimsical title page actually reads: “Simon and Schuster present The Super-Colossal Wonder Picture Epoch of this or any other century, Hollywood Girl, by J. P. McEvoy, Author of Show Girl, The Potters, Americana, etc.   All-Talking – All-Dancing – All-Singing, With three-dimensional technicolor television, featuring All Star Cast: Dixie Dugan, who shakes a sun-kist Scanty—with sound.   Fritz von Buelow, Colossal Director in the Leaping Lipsies with more Yeth-men than Paul Whiteman has chins.   Jimmy Doyle, who worked up from Ghosting on a tabloid to writing dialogue for Rin-Tin-Tin.   Sol Nebbick, the big producer with the rat-trap mind, the Frigidaire heart, and nerves like E-strings.   Mickey O’Keefe, who wrote the original Prisoner’s Song, ‘I Can’t Lock You Anything But Up, Baby.’" 





  



Uncommon to begin with, and dare I say rare with the publisher's publicity band? 





$150 plus shipping. 



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