To all the collectors of Twainiana out there I want to describe a delightful item I picked up yesterday at my favourite used bookstore (all I have to do is give them a 'watch list' and I get first crack at anything that comes into their hands on my list). Anyway, to the item itself: It's a booklet printed in 1937 for the Warner Bros. release of The Prince and the Pauper. The booklet itself is 9.25"x10", 32 pages. The front cover is a wonderfully hand-tinted still of the Prince and the Pauper in the Prince's chambers. On the back is another beautiful hand-tinted still of the Prince (or is it the Pauper in Prince's clothing?) yawning in his bead with the great seal hovering on the curtain behind him. The title page contains 6 small sketches on either side of the page. These look very much like the sketches a movie art director might render to give to the set construction crews, but I have no way of confirming that. The title page text reads: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, as presented in the WARNERS BROS. PICTURE with ERROL FLYNN Claude Rains Hernry Stephenson Barton MacLane and THE MAUCH TWINS BILLY and BOBBY Eric Portman Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHTLEY A FIRST NATIONAL PICTURE WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO. Racine Wisconsin Copyright 1937 by WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO. PRINTED IN U.S.A. ============================================================ The copyright for the text is listed as 1881, 1899, 1909, by Samuel L. Clemens. The text itself is a severly truncated version of the story we all know and love with black and white still from the movie on every page. It's a wonderful l'il item and the price was quite reasonable. I was lucky that the store saved it for me. They have two collectors of Errol Flynn memorabilia who would have also snapped this up in a New York Minute. It's good to cultivate sources in bookstores. \-\/-/__/--\ /-/ |================================| \/ ___ /\ \ / / | Please visit my Home Page: | / /\_/ / \ \_/ / | http://web.idirect.com/~headly | /_/\___/ \___/ |================================|