HILTON, James

Good-bye, Mr. Chips (Goodbye)

First American edition. Modest offsetting to front endpapers from a clipping, thus near fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Basis for two films: the 1939 Sam Wood-directed version with Robert Donat (who beat out Clark Gable, Henry Fonda and others for the Best Actor Oscar in what was probably Hollywood's best year ever), Greer Garson, and Paul Henreid, and the 1969 remake directed by Herbert Ross with Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, and Michael Redgrave. A very nice copy of the American edition, which in our experience is much less common than the English edition, and additionally less common than copies supplied with later Christmas-themed dustwrappers, which were almost certainly added to first editions for holiday sales.

[BTC #91978]