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Hardcover. First Edition. 247pp. Boards. A New York representative for a Hollywood movie company gets involved in murder. Light toning to endpapers. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Dustjacket art by Richard Powers. In Hubin, 2003, p. 881.; Octavo.

Hardcover. First Edition. 247pp. Boards. A New York representative for a Hollywood movie company gets involved in murder. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Dustjacket art by Richard Powers. In Hubin, 2003, p. 881.; Octavo.

Draft script for the 1949 film, seen here under the working title "Happy Times." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine and in manuscript pencil on the title page. Six reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's 1836 play, about a group of corrupt officials in a small town who become convinced that a buffoonish itinerant is actually an investigator in disguise, come to inquire into their tax fraud. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, dated 8/7/48, with credits for screenwriters Harry Kurnitz and Phil Rapp. 144 leaves, with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8/10/48 and 10/13/48. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good, with spine moderately worn and front board starting.