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What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg, 1941
SCHULBERG, Budd (1914-2009). What Makes Sammy Run? New York: Random House, 1941.

First edition of the author’s first book, inscribed to director and actor Paul Bartel. “For Paul Bartel, Thanks for tracking this down. Sincerely, Budd Schulberg.” Schulberg would be best known for this, his debut novel, as well as his screenplays – he won an Academy Award for On the Waterfront (1954).

Octavo. Original cloth (spine a touch faded); pictorial dust jacket (some restoration to spine panel ends, panel edges, and flap folds, with a few letters in spine title a little touched up); custom box.
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