Signed book: The Moonshine War. First edition. NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 236 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page in blue ballpoint, "For Richard Widmark, hoping we'll meet later on—Elmore Leonard, Sept. 1969." In fine condition, with a price-clipped dust jacket that also bears slight wear to spine. Ex. Otto Penzler.
Esteemed actor Richard Widmark starred as Dr. Emmett Taulbee in the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1969 novel The Moonshine War. The film costarred Patrick McGoohan and Alan Alda and was released in 1970. Widmark never appeared in any other films adapted from a Leonard work and, as such, the pair never did "meet later on." Books signed by their author and presented to a well-known actor from its adaptation are quite rare and desirable.
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