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Moderate wear, pages yellowed; name inside; repaired binding but a reading copy still. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 226973. Seller Inventory # 226973
Title: Something of Value
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Vintage photograph of actors Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier getting their clothes fitted while in Nairobi for the production of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe, manuscript annotations, and a rubber stamp on the verso. Based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Robert C. Ruark. Set amidst Kenya's Mau Mau uprising. Two childhood friends, Peter (Rock Hudson), the son of a British colonist and Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native to Kenyan grow up to be on opposing sides of the conflict, each wishing for a more peaceful world while surrounded by extreme violence. Shot on location in Kenya. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 145088