Lot 123
Cain, James M. Autograph letter signed ("James M. Cain"), one page, on personal letterhead, 11 x 8 3/8 in., Hyattsville, Md., December 22, 1965, to Mr. Bean regarding quotations from Cain's works. He mentions his only quotation in Mencken's book "A guitar has moonlight in it," from Serenade, and the most quoted line: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon," from The Postman Always Rings Twice, "as illustrating the feat, in a few words, of starting the action & giving a complete bio sketch of the leading character, all in one fell swoop…." Together with a typed letter signed, one page, 9½ x 6 in., on letterhead of The Shoreham, Los Angeles, June 19,1946. To Ted Robinson of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, thanking him for a review and discussing how some of the New York critics have "torn into me" and have decided that he has been "eaten alive by the movies….If you were to choose a dozen picture producers out here at random…I think they would all tell you that my main defect, from their point of view, is that I will NOT concede a point here and there, and write books that they can make, without an endless headache over censorship…."
Estimated Value $400 - 500.
Ex William "Bill" Steiner Collection.
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