[Rarebooks] FS: BILLY THE KID: Michael Ondaatje INSCRIBED with Letter to Director Arthur Penn

[Charles Agvent]

ONDAATJE, Michael (Arthur Penn). THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID. 
LEFT HANDED POEMS with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). [Toronto]: Anansi, 
1970. First Edition. Wraps issue published simultaneously with the 
hardcover issue, this being the first state without the award statement. 
A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to film 
director Arthur Penn: "who has his own painful/beautiful [crossed out] 
version/Michael Ondaatje/Feb. 71." Laid in is a full-page AUTOGRAPH 
LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by Ondaatje to Penn also dated Feb. 1971. In part: 
"One of the first movies I remember as a teenager was Left Handed Gun. 
Tho I didn't then know who directed, acted, etc. It was only a long time 
later when watching it and the moon shooting scene came up that I found 
out it was your work + I realized it had been for some time part of my 
blood. So at some moments my version of Billy's story is made up of what 
I remember of your version-- I have two tales of Charlie's death, one 
yours...." About Fine.

Arthur Penn's first feature film was THE LEFT HANDED GUN, starring Paul 
Newman in a role meant for James Dean. Penn is better known for his 
later work: BONNIE AND CLYDE, THE MIRACLE WORKER, ALICE'S RESTAURANT, 
and others. (#019154)        $5,000.00

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