All Fall Down (INSCRIBED to actor Lon (Bud) McCallister)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., September, 1960. Fourth printing. Hardbound. SIGNED and dated in Los Angeles by Herlihy on title page. The author has further INSCRIBED the book 'For Lon - Dreamboat of my salad days - Love, Jamie'. Laid in is an ALS from Herlihy 'Dear Bud, I'm sorry I gave such an erroneous impression that evening in Hollywood. I recall being low on energy and felt a bit of a bust myself. But you are a splendid, affirmative and bright companion on any occasion. It is hard, though, to get a new friendship off the ground with such distances between our domiciles. Be sure to let me have your new address so that I can see your Mendicino setting one day. Love, Jamie". Herlihy and McCallister, protege of Director George Cukor, were well-known members of the Los Angeles gay community.
Octavo ; 272pp. A Very Good copy in black cloth in price clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. Item #22224
Adapted into a 1962 film of the same name directed by John Frankenheimer, starring stars Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Brandon deWilde and Angela Lansbury. “There is something very wonderful about this book; it has a luminous thing that is the best thing in writing or any kind of art.” —Tennessee Williams.
Price: $500.00