[Rarebooks] FS: GRAPES OF WRATH Inscribed to screenwriter Jerry Cady (LAURA): "As far as I know it, this is what happens to them"

[Charles Agvent]

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STEINBECK,  John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH. New York: The Viking  Press
(1939).  First  Edition.  Second Printing Before Publication  of  this
winner  of  the  Pulitzer Prize. This copy  belonged  to  screenwriter
Jerry  Cady (A WING AND A PRAYER; LAURA; FOREVER AMBER; CALL NORTHSIDE
777)  to whom the author has INSCRIBED and SIGNED this book. According
to  Cady's daughter, the two got into a huge argument at Murphy's  bar
one  night about the book and Cady said that this kind of thing didn't
go  on in America. Steinbeck then INSCRIBED the book on the dedication
page  "To  Jerry  Cady/As far as I know it, this is  what  happens  to
them/John  Steinbeck."  This  book  shows some evidence  that  it  was
carried  to  Murphy's  on more than one occasion. The  exterior  shows
minor  edgewear,  mostly  at the bottom edge. The  front  endpaper  is
mostly  pasted down to the front pastedown, but what can be seen shows
the  ink stamp of the Boulevard Circulating Library on Hollywood Blvd.
The  half-title  page  has  a few small tears, and  there  is  an  old
dampstain  on the outer margin edge of the first few pages,  including
the  dedication  page,  but not touching  the  Steinbeck  inscription.
Accompanying  the  book  are  a few pages  of  Cady's  scrapbook  that
includes  family  photos and photos of his boat, his driver's  license
and  Twentieth  Century Fox ID card, and the 8 November 1948  headline
of  the  LOS  ANGELES EXPRESS: "Screen Writer Dies in  Mystery."  Cady
died  from  an  overdose of sleeping pills on his yacht  off  Catalina
Island.  He was nominated for an Oscar in 1945 for his screenplay  for
A  WING  AND  A PRAYER. A beautiful Steinbeck presentation in  a  Good
only copy.                                                    $7500.00

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