Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
PECK, GREGORY. Two items, each to New York Times editor Arline Youngman: Typed Letter Signed * Christmas card Signed and Inscribed. The letter, "Greg Peck," discussing the possibility of making The Kingmaker into a film, declining to pursue the rights for The Carpathian Caper, and praising the abrasiveness of The Dove. 1 page, 4to, "Atticus Corporation" stationery; horizontal folds. With the original envelope. The card, "Affectionately yours / V[eronique] and G," with holograph salutation ("Dear Arline"). Small 8vo, folded sheet. Los Angeles, 27 February 1975; Np, nd

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27 February 1975: ". . . We are . . . discussing The Kingmaker's potential as a film. How to take the pulpiness out of it? Will the characters stand up to probing? Aside from the rascality and ruthlessness of the main characters, what do we have to show? . . . A picture of this sort has to show us something about ourselves as a people, and strike a universal chord at the same time. . . ."
with--Two items from Peck, unsigned, each to Youngman: Typed mailgram, asking that she send a book. 1/2 page, 4to, "Western Union Mailgram" form A printed Christmas card. 12mo. Los Angeles, 19 March 1975; Van Nuys, 8 December 1980 [from postmark]. One with the original envelope.