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Zapata.
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Covelo, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, first trade edition.. Issued without dust jacket, but with the publisher's original slipcase, an 8X12-inch small folio, includes 18 woodcut illustrations by Karin Wikstrom, Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for the 1952 film titled Viva Zapata! that starred Marlon Brando, but before he wrote the screenplay, he wrote a "treatment" for the film, dated April 1949 and titled Zapata (The Little Tiger), it consisted of 337 typewritten pages, the first 90 of which were his introduction with the history and culture of Mexico, the treatment had no camera directions so it isn't a screenplay, but it is written in a dramatic format with dialogue, scene descriptions, and asides on the people and countryside, the binding for this fine press item is hand-made Japanese paper over boards with a buckram spine and corners, the slipcase is buckram over archival boards, this is No. 75 of 190 numbered copies Signed by Wikstrom and issued for sale (Nos. 51-67 were reserved by the publisher, while the first 50 copies comprised the de luxe edition). Fine, unread.
Synopsis
Before there was Viva Zapata! , the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominations for best story and screenplay, there was the original Zapata . In the research library of UCLA, James Robertson unearthed Steinbeck's original narraive of the life of Emiliano Zapato, "the Little Tiger," champion of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution. This story, upon which Steinbeck based his classic script Viva Zapata! , brilliantly captures the conflict between creative dissent and intolerant militancy to give us both a timesless social statement and an invaluable work of art. This new volume includes the screenplay, with copious notes by the film's acclaimed director, Elia Kazan, as well as Steinbeck's captivating narrative.
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- Bookseller
- James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JD30165
- Title
- Zapata.
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Covelo, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1991, first trade edition.
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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
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Concord, California
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