LA LUMIÈRE DES ÉTOILES WESTERN / GRIS ZANE, ÉDITION FILM, années 30, +photo liquidation signée Arlan

LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS BY ZANE GREY, MOVIE VERSION, 1930s ( rear ad page: Under the Tanto Rim, published 1926). RARE forerunner Grosset edition in limited movie dust jacket.  VG dust jacket on VG+ beautiful book with scarce original & removable wraparound band.  Pre-photoplay edition, but includes added photos of Richard Arlen ( signed and inscribed photo) and a Mary Brian studio photos. COA will be provided. The later editions have Arlen and Brian illustrated on the dust jacket.

Great  WENDELL GALLOWAY COVER.   Promotional release tied to the 1930 film version with Richard Arlen and Mary Brian, the first sound version of this film loosely based on the Zane Grey novel.  Oddly, the silent version had been released in 1925,  but the Grosset promotion here appears to anticipate the 1930 movie.  

The Light of Western Stars is a 1930 American Pre-Code Western  produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It had two directors, Otto Brower and Edward H. Knopf . This film is the third filming of Zane Grey's novel, The Light of Western Stars. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian starred. Previously filmed  by Paramount as a silent in 1925.  -Wiki

Out under the wonderful western stars, near the Mexican border of the 20th century, most of the action in this thrilling story takes place. A New York society girl buys a ranch which becomes the center of frontier warfare along a turbulent Mexican border. Her loyal cowboys defend her property from bandits, and her superintendent, whose first meeting with her brought about astonishing results, rescues her when she is captured by them. "Majesty," as her cowboys lovingly call her, repays this debt in full when he is sentenced to death by Mexican rebels.