Money Men and One-Shot Deal
Harcourt Brace, 1981. First printing. Paperback. Uncorrected proof, first edition, 1981. Blue softcover tall 8vo, 197pp. Near fine with minor sunning. Advance copy of the work on which the film 'Boiling Point' was based. With an inscription from the author to Matthew Bruccoli: "To Matt- Thanks for believing in me. [signed]". With a joking correction on the cover. A nice association copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Near Fine. Item #z04742
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