"Spider Boy" 1928 VAN VECHTEN, Carl The Derrydale Press

"Spider Boy" 1928 VAN VECHTEN, Carl The Derrydale PressVAN VECHTEN, Carl [297] pp. Alfred A. Knopf 1928 7 3 4" x 5 1 2" Jacket design by Ronald McRae "Spider Boy: A Scenario for a Moving Picture" is a 1928 satirical novel by American author Carl Van Vechten. It is one of the earliest comic novels about Hollywood, following the absurd and extraordinary adventures of a diffident, successful playwright named Ambrose Deacon as he navigates the silent film industry.

This deluxe version is published in a limited edition of 250 copies

compiled by Robert Dudley French and published by Yale University Press in 1930

000 square feet (5

it was only the 101st to 104th catalogs which had such sumptuous illustrations*

Rae was one of the directors at the Cobden-Sanderson publishing house

New York Graphic Society/ Little

which was opened in 1912

George IV's successors William IV

Under the management of his son it became more popular as a family destination

Madeleine de Rauch

Vollbracht published Nothing Sacred

the third son of diplomat William Heywood Haslam (1889–1981) and his wife