Name/Title
"WINGS" BOOK JACKETEntry/Object ID
2001.104.1.2Description
Color: Black; Blue; Brown; Red; White; Yellow
A book dust jacket for "Wings," by John Monk Saunders (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927), 249 pp. The artifact has the title in yellow and red at the top of the front. Below the title is the name of the author in black. At the center is a color illustration of three United States Naval biplanes flying in a blue sky. More planes are throughout the background in the distance. Across the bottom it reads, "Based on the Paramount Picture... / A Lucien Hubbard Production - Directed by William A. Wellman." The title and author's name are on the spine as well as, "The / Complete / Novel / illustrated with / scenes from the / Photoplay." On the back is a blue-tint photograph of the author and a biography. The film from which the book is based won the first Academy Award for best picture and starred Clara Bow and Charles "Buddy" Rogers. The book is in the collection and is item .1. With many abrasions; brittleness; creases; discoloration; some holes; stains; and tears throughout, the object is in poor condition.Lexicon
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Three-dimensional, Book jackets, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Grosset & Dunlap, Motion picture actors and actresses, Silent films, War films, Fiction--20th century, War stories