Fine Literature & Modern Firsts
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Lot 191
SALINGER, J.D. (1919?2010). A group of 3 typescripts for th...
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SALINGER, J.D. (1919?2010). A group of 3 typescripts for the short story ?Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes?. First carbon copies, each 16 pp. with cover sheet, 4to (279 x 216 mm), individually stapled at upper corner. With a typed inter?office memo paperclipped to one of the typescripts from Michael Ludmer at Universal City Studios distributing these three copies to producer Ross Hunter with a note of uncertainty if Salinger will sell: ?He is not a lover of films?. Salinger?s ?Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes? was first published in the July 1951 issue of The New Yorker and later collected in Salinger?s second book Nine Stories (1953). It was never adapted into film.
