Johnny Got His Gun

Beverly Hills, CA: Campbell, Silver, Cosby, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1971 film.

Dalton Trumbo's meditation on the horror of war was first published in 1939 by J.B. Lippincott, winning the National Book Award (then called the American Book Sellers Award), and was subsequently serialized in 1940 in the leftist newspaper "The Daily Worker." Trumbo's left-leaning views, and ultimately his direct association with the Communist Party in the early 1940s, caused him to be called before the House Un-American Activities committee, where, along with nine other writers and directors, he refused to testify about Communist activity in Hollywood. The group, dubbed The Hollywood Ten, was subsequently blacklisted, and Trumbo spent eleven months in prison. Thirty years after the book's publication, Trumbo himself directed the film adaptation of his novel, which won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes.

Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present, dated April 21, 1968, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credit for Trumbo. 152 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated yellow, blue, pink, and green revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, lightly soiled, bound with two gold brads.

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