The Skin Game
New York: Scribner's, 1920.
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Hardcover. First American edition. Neat, contemporary inscription and a little fading to the spine else fine lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Basis for two films including the 1931 Alfred Hitchcock film, written by Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville. Both versions starred Edmund Gwenn (in his first talkie, reprising his role from a 1920 silent version) as a rich factory owner at odds with an aristocratic family.
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John Galsworthy
birth name: John Galsworthy
born: 8/14/1867
died: 1/31/1933
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore