by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley. New York: Julian Messner, [1957]. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. The source for the 1987 movie for which Mamet wrote the screenplay. This copy bears Mamet's full-page inscription: "I am a Southside Chicagoan and no fooling. We grew up soaked in gangster lore. I wrote the Untouchables screenplay and later the film Homicide, which is about gun-runners. Auto Ordinance Co. offered me one of their tommyguns. I thanked them but demurred.
Laid in is a handwritten note by Mamet in which he playfully adds: "I have signed with my Nom de Plume, Eliot Ness." Big fool, me. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
by Eliot Ness with Oscar Fraley. New York: Julian Messner, [1957]. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. The source for the 1987 movie for which Mamet wrote the screenplay. This copy bears Mamet's full-page inscription: "I am a Southside Chicagoan and no fooling. We grew up soaked in gangster lore. I wrote the Untouchables screenplay and later the film Homicide, which is about gun-runners. Auto Ordinance Co. offered me one of their tommyguns. I thanked them but demurred.
Laid in is a handwritten note by Mamet in which he playfully adds: "I have signed with my Nom de Plume, Eliot Ness." Big fool, me. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
