The Best Of Damon Runyon

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good. 1945. Reprint. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. Book number 53 in the Pocket Books edition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book has some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and spine joints of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a large amount of inked writing on the rear inside cover by a previous owner. "Ask any of us who jot down notes for the various gazzettes in New York our idea of a big-time, first-rate, Grade-A reporter - and eleven times out of ten, the retort will be Damon Runyon! Because, among other things, Runyon is the most exciting and spellbinding of historians - whether his assignment is the Kentucky Debry, the Madison Square Garden farces, the current murder mystery, or the sitchee-ay-shun in the Orient." "From 1939 to 1943, Runyon pursued a Hollywood career as a writer and producer at MGM, Universal and RKO. Characters like the Lemon Drop Kid and Izzy Cheesecake were derived from his real life relationships and experiences. Films such as LITTLE MISS MARKER (1934) , starring Shirley Temple (later remade with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball) , and Frank Capra's LADY FOR A DAY (1933) are only two examples of Runyon's 16 stories which were turned into films." (from Wikipedia) .