[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED with an original poem by Preston Sturges, winner of the first Academy Award ever given for Best Original Screenplay

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STURGES, Preston. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE. New York: Horace Liveright, 
1929 (1930). First Edition. Fourth Printing of this romantic comedy play 
first produced on Broadway in 1929. It has been adapted for the screen 
twice, first in 1931, then again in 1951. The play was Sturges's second 
Broadway production and the first of his plays to be made into a film. 
This copy is INSCRIBED with an unidentified poem and SIGNED as "Preston" 
in January 1933: "What good to know this greenery / Is only shoddy 
scenery-- / That Cupid is a stupid little fool-- / That the firmament 
conspires / To gratify desires / That pass away when day is dawning 
cool?" Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the dustwrapper which has 
a slightly darkened spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.

One of Hollywoods greatest filmmakers, Preston Sturges was the first 
writer to direct his own script; thus, the credit "written and directed 
by" first appeared before his name in THE GREAT MCGINTY. He also won the 
first Academy Award ever given for Best Original Screenplay for that 
script. Among his other films are SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (perhaps the finest 
movie-about-a-movie ever made), CHRISTMAS IN JULY, UNFAITHFULLY YOURS, 
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK, and THE LADY EVE.         $1,000.00

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