Original Typed Document Signed by William Faulkner – The Agreement of Sale Contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios to Purchase the Rights to an Untitled Faulkner Short Story Set in a Mythical Latin American Kingdom

Original Typed Document Signed by William Faulkner – the Agreement of Sale Contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios to purchase the rights to an untitled Faulkner short story set in a mythical Latin American Kingdom. Single sheet, signed on the verso by William Faulkner and dated by him “30 August, 1933”. With the blindstamp and signature of the Notary Public in Lafayette, Mississippi. Near fine with slightly torn punch holes at top and very faint paper clip mark. In the early 1930s MGM Studios offered Faulkner work as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As literary critic and noted authority on Faulkner’s work Andre Bleikasten put it, he “was in dire need of money and had no idea how to get it…So he went to Hollywood.” He arrived in Culver City, California, in May 1932, experiencing a fair share of ambivalence for both the movie culture and the studio system. He did enjoy a personal and professional relationship with director Howard Hawks whose brother, William Hawks, became Faulkner's Hollywood agent.…