Mars in the House of Death.  Drawings by Carlos Ruano Llopis.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ingram to Jimmy Starr on the front free endpaper: “ To Jimmy – One of the/few Honest to God aficionados/in North America -/His friend/Rex Ingram/Nov. 21--------------------1939.”

Octavo. [xiv], [1]-[380], [4, blank] pp. With inserted frontispiece. All other full-page drawings reckoned within pagination. Publisher’s full red cloth, covers and spine stamped in black, dust jacket. Jacket spine browned and somewhat chipped, two short tears near spine, dampstaining and a three-inch tear to the fore-edge of the front panel. There is some related dampstaining to the front cover of the cloth. Still, a very good copy that shows surprisingly well, considering these defects.

Rex Ingram (1892-1950) was a film director, writer and actor. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States in 1911, where he studied sculpture at Yale University. Eventually shifting his interests to film-making, he made mostly action or supernatural films. His best known films are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), Scaramouche (1923), and The Garden of Allah (1927). This novel, about the turbulent life of a Spanish Matador, is the first of two novels.

The book’s recipient, Jimmy Starr (1904-1990) was a Hollywood columnist as well as a screenwriter, and was highly respected for giving his readers thoughtful insights into the film world.

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