New York: Viking, 1935.
Price: $1,200.00
Hardcover. First edition. Spine gilt a little rubbed, near fine in near fine dust jacket with some internal repairs and a scrape on the front panel. Inscribed by the author: "To the Murrays from Humphrey." The author's only book, one of the great anti-war 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 of greatest anti-war films. Uncommon signed.
Item #285111
Humphrey Cobb
birth name: Humphrey Cobb
born: 09/05/1899
died: 04/25/1944