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Goddess The-A Screenplayin Grey Yellow & White Dustjacket Design By Ronald Clyne With the Carefully Tipped-In Signatures of the Screenwriter Paddy CHAYEFSKY and a Number of the Cast Members of the Film Including Star KIM STANLEY - LLOYD BRIDGES -

1958 · 25224 — NY: Simon and Schuster 1958. Front Innr Flap DJ Original Price $3.50 Intact Authors 1st Original Screenplay Yellow & White Dustjacket Design by Ronald Clyne Preface HBDJ 1958 Stated 1st Edition Hardcover 8vo Gray paper-covered boards backed with yellow cloth Spine in dustjacket Book is Very Good a touch of bumping and darkening to the spine ends mild toning to the edges of the text block otherwise clean and sharp in Very Good- unclipped dustjacket with some shallow wear to the edges AS-IS a bump to the crown and a bit of sunning to the spine Cvr Interior nice tight clean light wear FOX DJ light rub wear tiny Chips Tears Edges .With the Carefully Tipped-In Signatures of the screenwriter Paddy CHAYEFSKY and a number of the cast members of the film including star KIM STANLEY - LLOYD BRIDGES - PATTY DUKE - JOYCE VAN PATTEN - WERNER KLEMPERER - STEVEN HILL - & GERALD HIKEN signature is loosely laid in Chayefsky's take on the Marilyn Monroe phenomenon Small-town girl becomes a screen goddess and lives to regret it a cult classic of Hollywood Babyloniana. Nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay Chayefsky had already won an Oscar three years before for Marty and would go on to win two more for The Hospital 1972 and Network 1977. A unique copy clearly a labor of love for its former owner and apparently years in the making as evidenced by Patty Duke who played an 8-year-old in the film signing her married name. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. NY: Simon and Schuster hardcover