FLYING THE MAIL by WILLIAM FAULKNER - ORIGINAL SCRIPT TREATMENT UNIQUE ORIGINAL

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FAULKNER, WILLIAM. Flying the Mail - Continuity Treatment by William Faulkner of the Film Story by Ralph Graves & Bernard Fineman. Culver City, California: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, June 3, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. The only original surviving copy of William Faulkner’s original 16 page mimeographed script printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed blue studio wrappers with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio production label affixed and with Complete File Copy and Vault Copy stamped in blue ink on the front cover. Formerly in the MGM archives, it was part of the material disposed of when MGM was sold in 1986. In 1985, Professor Bruce F. Kawin published the book Faulkner’s MGM Screenplays at the University of Tennessee Press which contained facsimiles of the stories and screenplays Faulkner wrote in his first visit to Hollywood writing for MGM in 1932-1933. It is this single surviving script that is reproduced in full facsimile in the book. This unproduced film project was an aviation picture that was designed for MGM’s stars Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, and Marie Dressler to be the leads. In his Flying the Mail introductory essay Kawin points out elements in Faulkner’s script that are related to Faulkner’s novels The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, Flags In the Dust, A few small chips to edges of wrappers otherwise fine. Enclosed in a custom folding case laid into a clamshell box.