Waterfront.

SCHULBERG, Budd.

Item Number: 1037

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition. Octavo, original beige cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For William with all good wishes Budd Schulberg.” Fine in an excellent dust jacket with an unfaded spine that has some of the usual peeling to the lamination, a problem often encountered with this jacket.

Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. "Intensely personalized, white-hot fiction with all the menace, suspense, narrative flow, fresh characterization and social message anybody could reasonably expect in a novel It’s the best of Schulberg, a full-fledged performance by a gifted American writer" (New York Times).