Eclipse by Trumbo Dalton, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED BY Son Clinton Trumbo on the occasion of what would have been Dalton's 100th year. Former owner's name. Prompt shipping from Colorado. Choose Expedited/Priority 2-6 days. ~"Buy with Confidence, Satisfaction Guaranteed! Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. SIGNED BY AUTHOR'S SON Chris Trumbo at celebration of what would have been Dalton's 100 Birthday 12/9/2005. Limited Edition 585 of 700. Hardcover in Fine Jacket. Also includes Program of event and Key to local Characters in the book. Ships fast from Colorado. Expedited/Priority 2-6 days. ~"Buy with Confidence, Satisfaction Guaranteed! Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. SIGNED BY AUTHOR'S SON Chris Trumbo at celebration of what would have been Dalton's 100 Birthday 12/9/2005. Limited Edition 28 of 700. Hardcover in Fine Jacket. Ships fast from Colorado. Expedited/Priority 2-6 days. ~"Buy with Confidence, Satisfaction Guaranteed! Signed.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to his friend and colleague at Warner Bros: "To Betty and Morton Grant. Here's the book! Thanks awfully for the encouragement and criticism which helped so much toward making it a better job than it might have been. Dalton Trumbo 1/16/36." This was the first published novel by Trumbo, the award-winning American screenwriter who went on to script Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood and an outspoken advocate of left-wing political views, he was one of the original "Hollywood Ten" who were jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party. The blacklist, which grew to over 150 names, persisted until the 1960s; Morton Grant was also subsequently blacklisted. It was effectively broken in 1960 when Trumbo was publicly credited as the screenwriter of Spartacus and Exodus. A film of Trumbo's life, starring Bryan Cranston in the title role, was released in 2015. Trumbo went to great lengths to secure the publication of Eclipse. Morton Grant, who worked alongside Trumbo at Warner, assisted him; he sent out the manuscript with the observation that "the novel is a good, solid piece of work. I want to assure you that the author and his later work is a much more valuable piece of publishing property. I have seen the prospectus of his new novel, and it will eclipse Eclipse" (Ceplair & Trumbo, p. 56). However, Trumbo struggled to find a publisher in America, and the book was eventually accepted in December 1934 by the small British publishers Lovat Dickson & Thompson. Trumbo drew on his time in the small town of Grand Junction, Colorado, basing the main characters on people he knew there. However, Trumbo apparently fell out of favour with the people of Grand Junction due to what they perceived as an overly negative depiction of their lifestyle. "Copies of the book were burned and tossed into the Colorado River. For years, the public library could not keep Eclipse on its shelves. If copies were checked out, they never returned" (Nijhuis). Eclipse was not reprinted until 2005, coinciding with what would have been Trumbo's 100th birthday, after a renewal of interest. The Trumbo family donated the book's copyright to the local library in Grand Junction and the library has since sold almost 2,000 copies of the title. Larry Ceplair & Christopher Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, 2015; Michelle Nijhuis, The hometown that forgave Dalton Trumbo, SFGATE, 5 March 2006. Octavo. Original speckled white and blue cloth, titles to spine in blue, top edge blue. With the illustrated dust jacket. Spine dusty and lightly cocked, top edge faded, fore edge and endpapers tanned. An excellent copy in a well-preserved example of the jacket, spine a little toned, extremities rubbed and nicked, else bright and sharp.