Calder Willingham — Geraldine Bradshaw

New York, Vanguard, 1950 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Calder Willingham's second novel, about life in Chicago during the Second World War. The first edition, first printing. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Willingham's novel follows a Chicago bell boy and a copy boy as they vie to seduce an attractive elevator operator. The author paints a portrait of life in the lower echelons of society on the homefront in the 1940s.Calder Willingham was an American novelist and screenwriter who specialised in black comedy, and whose screenplays included 'Paths of Glory' and 'One-Eyed Jacks&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Small loss of paper to dust wrapper back strip tail, with two small closed tears and light edgewear to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.