Lot 389
Lot 389
Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo, 1939

Price Realised USD 2,250
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Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo, 1939

Price Realised USD 2,250
Price Realised USD 2,250
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Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo, 1939
TRUMBO, Dalton (1905-1976). Johnny Got His Gun. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1939.

First edition of this classic anti-war novel. Trumbo would write and direct the screenplay for the 1971 film version which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year. A fine copy.

Octavo. Original cloth; printed dust jacket (very slight rubbing to extremities, hint of minor soiling); custom box.
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