MR. CHARLES HAWTREY IN A CINEMATOGRAPH VERSION OF A MESSAGE FROM MARS by Richard Ganthony ... Adapted from the Play and Produced by Mr. J. Wallett Waller. London: The United Kingdom Films, Limited, n.d. [1913]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] (not paginated), illustrations, original pictorial wrappers. First edition. An 8-page "souvenir" booklet for Britain's first feature length SF film, including numerous stills from the 1913 film and a one-page synopsis. The film, based on a popular play by Richard Ganthony about a visitor with superhuman powers from Mars, first performed in 1899, was released in 1913. A novelization of Ganthony's play by Mabel Winifred Knowles writing as "Lester Lurgan" was published by Greening in 1912. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V447. Rear wrapper a trifle dusty, else a nearly fine copy. Rare. The Currey-Ordway-Currey copy; we know of no others. (#66890).
Price: $1,500.00
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