signed first edition
1941 · New York
by SCHULBERG, Budd
New York: Random House, 1941. Full Description:
SCHULBERG, Budd. What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House, 1941.
First edition, first printing of the author's first novel. Inscribed by the author to actor Joe Pantoliano aka "Joey Pants" on half-title. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 135 mm). [vi], 303, [3, blank pp]. Title-page printed in blue and black.
Inscription reads: "For Joe Pantoliano,/ whose acting career I've/ followed with enthusiastic interest, and whose Hoboken roots/ fascinate me./ Onward,/ Budd Schulberg/ 5/5/06."
Original light blue and dark blue cloth. Boards ruled in center in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Top edge dyed gray. Cloth with some minimal rubbing to gilt. Endpapers with some toning from glue. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket has some professional restoration along creases and top and bottom edge. Some of the gilt on boards is a bit rubbed. Still, a beautiful, about fine copy of this classic.
Budd Schulberg, Academy Award-winning writer (for the screenplay for On the Waterfront,1954) wrote this novel about the hyper-ambitious and mercenary Sammy Glick in 1941, four years after he began his writing career in Hollywood (with uncredited writing on A Star is Born). The novel is told from the standpoint of one of Glick's colleagues (he doesn’t have any real friends), Al Manheim, who watches Sammy with a mixture of awe and disgust, much in the way narrator Nick Carraway watches Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
HBS 69247.
$3,500. (Inventory #: 69247)
SCHULBERG, Budd. What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House, 1941.
First edition, first printing of the author's first novel. Inscribed by the author to actor Joe Pantoliano aka "Joey Pants" on half-title. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 135 mm). [vi], 303, [3, blank pp]. Title-page printed in blue and black.
Inscription reads: "For Joe Pantoliano,/ whose acting career I've/ followed with enthusiastic interest, and whose Hoboken roots/ fascinate me./ Onward,/ Budd Schulberg/ 5/5/06."
Original light blue and dark blue cloth. Boards ruled in center in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Top edge dyed gray. Cloth with some minimal rubbing to gilt. Endpapers with some toning from glue. In publisher's dust jacket. Jacket has some professional restoration along creases and top and bottom edge. Some of the gilt on boards is a bit rubbed. Still, a beautiful, about fine copy of this classic.
Budd Schulberg, Academy Award-winning writer (for the screenplay for On the Waterfront,1954) wrote this novel about the hyper-ambitious and mercenary Sammy Glick in 1941, four years after he began his writing career in Hollywood (with uncredited writing on A Star is Born). The novel is told from the standpoint of one of Glick's colleagues (he doesn’t have any real friends), Al Manheim, who watches Sammy with a mixture of awe and disgust, much in the way narrator Nick Carraway watches Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
HBS 69247.
$3,500. (Inventory #: 69247)
(310) 659-3674
