A Face in the Crowd. A Play for the Screen. Introduction by Elia Kazan.

SCHULBERG, Budd.

Published by New York: Random House, 1957

About this Item

First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Clive Hirschhorn, who seems to have a lock on Schulbergiana. Best wishes, Budd Schulberg. 12/13/91". Hirschhorn (b. 1940) was the long-term film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express. His various histories of Hollywood include The Warner Bros. Story (1978) and The Hollywood Musical (1981). Schulberg and Elia Kazan formed a successful author-director partnership, their first collaboration On The Waterfront (1954) winning them several Oscars. Subsequently, they decided to work on a new film, one that was their own, adapted from Shulberg's short story "Your Arkansas Traveler". Hirschhorn's ownership inscription is on the front pastedown in blue ink, dated 1959. Octavo. Half-tone portrait frontispiece. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in black and gilt on black ground, publisher's device on front cover in gilt, top edge red. With dust jacket. Ticket of Vanguard Booksellers, Johannesburg, on front pastedown. Spine ends bumped, minor rubbing to black ground on spine, small mark to foot of front cover, top edge dye partially faded; jacket spine a little darkened, shallow chips to spine ends, a handful of nicks and creases to edges, tiny puncture to front spine fold, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.

Seller Inventory # 179760

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Face in the Crowd. A Play for the Screen. Introduction by Elia Kazan.
• Publisher: New York: Random House, 1957
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)