The Big Dream [*SIGNED*]

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good in Good+ dj. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. [good tight copy, internally clean but with some irregular faded spots on front cover as a result of once-dampened dust jacket; jacket is mildly edgeworn, water-stained at upper spine and upper left-hand corner of front panel (although because of the jacket design it's relatively unobtrusive), plus there's a triangular chip at the top front hinge (affecting both the front panel and top of spine)]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. This hard-boiled veteran writer returns yet again to the Hollywood Novel, a genre he mined repeatedly (often striking a rich vein of cliche) throughout his long career. No one can say he didn't know the territory: in addition to more than a dozen novels (under both his own name and, early on, as "Stephen Gould"), he also had numerous screenwriting credits from the 1940s through the 1970s. This one is "an explosive [aren't they all?] novel" about the "pressure cooker of the new Hollywood." With a little sex in it, as they say. Signed by Author .