Good Night, Sweet Prince

Philadelphia: Blakiston Co, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good Condition Hardback Book. No Dust Jacket. Cover has wear along the cover edges, Red cloth book. Illustrated end papers. Clean unmarked text. Previous owners name on end papers and inside blank page. 474 pages. About the book: Words alone can scarcely reproduce the unparalleled range between Barrymore's achievement and acclaim and his humiliation and self-torture. Such flights of wild and reckless passion, such scenes of heroic debauchery, such moments of matchless artistic triumph should be played behind the lights, in rich costume, and to the accompaniment of the full orchestra. Barrymore's life was neither comedy or tragedy; it was a grand opera.But as perfectly as words can do it, Gene Fowler has told the story. Barrymore was his friend, and his book is warm with the affection that flowed between them. 474 pp. AB60