1932 – King Kong – Delos Lovelace | First Edition – Famous SciFi Monsters!

King Kong is one of the most iconic monsters of film and literature of all time. First appearing in film in 1933, King Kong appeared in Grosset and Dunlap’s book form a year earlier. This 1932 ‘radio picture’ first edition includes illustrations of scenes from the ‘upcoming’ movie on the endpapers (stamped to boards as the pastedown).

Bibliographic Details

• Title: King Kong
• Author(s): Delos W. Lovelace;
• Contributor(s): Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper
• Publisher: New York: Grosset & Dunlap
• Edition: First Edition. 1932.
• Binding: Cloth hardcover with pictorial endpapers
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Size:  8.5 in x 6 in (21 cm x 15 cm)
• Collation: [4], 249, [1] pp.
• Illustrations: Illustrated pictorial endpapers from film stills
• Contents Include:
  • King Kong full text adaptation

Condition:

Good. Bound in original publisher’s cloth with stamping; tight and secure. Cloth shows staining and signs of handling. Pages clean overall, exhibiting only mild age toning. Illustrated endpapers intact and crisp. Supplied with a facsimile dust jacket replicating the original.

Why Collect This?

• Scarce first edition of the earliest King Kong narrative
• Features illustrated film still endpapers from the RKO Pictures movie
• Issued prior to the iconic 1933 film release

Item Number: #29972