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Lot #699
Writers (4) Documents Signed: Mailer, Michener, Simon, and Warren

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Four documents signed by writers, including: a collaboration agreement between James Michener and Grove Day for "a book, tentatively entitled 'Rascals in Paradise,'" signed at the conclusion in ink by James A. Michener, A. Grove Day, and both of their agents (June 9, 1955); an exclusive agency agreement between Norman Mailer and the William Morris Agency, signed twice at the conclusion by Mailer and countersigned by an agent (March 6, 1944); an agreement between Melmar Productions, Danny Simon, and Neil Simon, pertaining to an unused "sketch entitled 'Matinee Idol' as originally contemplated on one of the Martha Raye Television shows during the 1955-56 broadcast season," signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Neil Simon (May 21, 1956); and an agreement between Robert Penn Warren and publishers Eyre and Spottiswoode "concerning a work which the Author has written entitled Band of Angels," signed at the conclusion in blue ballpoint by Robert Penn Warren (October 31, 1955). In overall fine condition.

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