COBB, Humphrey

Paths of Glory

First edition. A sound, very good copy with the spine faded in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little overall edge wear, and a small spot on the spine. One of the great antiwar novels, based on real incidents during WWI. The film rights were purchased two decades later by Kirk Douglas, who hired the relatively unknown Stanley Kubrick to direct. Starring Douglas and Adolphe Menjou and scripted by Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Calder Willingham, the film was a technical and critical triumph and ranks with All Quiet on the Western Front as perhaps the greatest antiwar film. Ownership Signature of "Herman J. Mankiewicz, London, 1936." Mankiewicz wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Citizen Kane (for which he shared an Oscar with Orson Welles), The Pride of the Yankees, Dinner at Eight, and many other great films. He also contributed (although uncredited) to the screenplays of Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and The Wizard of Oz.

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