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30 black A4 ringbinders, each containing between 30 and 120 leaves, and four bound folio scrapbooks, with letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera pasted in; in very good condition.A lovingly and meticulously compiled archive of the writing career of the novelist Paul Gallico. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically and by book/film with letters, telegrams, publicity materials, photographs and ephemera neatly intermingled with copies of reviews and reactions from local, national, and international press. Paul Gallico (1897 1976) was a prolific writer, starting his career as a sports reporter (his break came when he described being knocked out by boxer Jack Dempsey during an interview), and becoming a full-time novelist in 1938. He wrote 41 books, several of which were adapted for film and television, as well as many short stories and press reports. His best-known book, The Snow Goose (1941), was one of the winners of the O. Henry Award in 1941, and was turned into an award-winning BBC television film, starring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter, in 1971. His 1969 novel, The Poseidon Adventure, about a capsized liner, attracted relatively little notice until it caught the attention of producer Irwin Allen and became a hugely-successful 1972 film which held the number one spot at the US box office for twelve weeks and won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. This archive not only includes every newspaper and magazine article written by Gallico in any publication in the UK and US, it also contains almost every mention of him in the press, from book and film reviews to reports of his being among the passengers of the Nieuw Amsterdam on one of its sailings from New York, and his inclusion in a list of 'The Ten Most Unbeautiful Men' in the Daily Mail in 1958 (a small adjacent cutting from the following day's paper comprises a telegram from Gallico in response: 'Thanks … for inclusion in the hideous club stop our slogan apes of the world unite unquote cordially Paul Gallico'). Interspersed with this comprehensive record of his written output are letters from friends and notable acquaintances including Noel Coward, Clementine Churchill, and Marlene Dietrich, and ephemera relating to his books, films and personal life. There are several scrapbooks containing 'General Cuttings' and ephemera, arranged chronologically, the earliest of which contain full runs of Gallico's sport columns for the years 1928, 1929 and 1931. A large morocco-bound folio volume, embossed in gilt with the title 'Sunday Sermonologues' contains around forty neatly pasted-in cuttings of Gallico's 'Thinking Aloud' columns from 1939, all illustrated by Sam Berman. The volume, which is inscribed to Gallico from his father, also has an attractive manuscript title page and contents page, and includes a telegram from fellow-columnist Walter Winchell on 31st January 1949, discussing the controversy around the cancelled tour by pianist Walter Gieseking. Winchell writes 'Hooray for your piece on Gieseking today. I was amazed by the number of editorial writers and other on the newspapers who took the opposite view.' Gallico had written that Gieseking 'may not have been a member of the Nazi Party but he lent the cause aid, comfort and sympathy by collaboration'. Among interesting later articles included in the scrapbooks are a series of reports written by Gallico about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. The articles were published in a number of local and national newspapers in both the UK and the US and, as well as cuttings of all of the reports, there are letters and telegrams of thanks from the Cuneo and Kemsley groups, thanking him for the 'absolutely brilliant pieces'. There is one typescript poem by Gallico among the scrapbooks: a two-page poem dated 26th July 1968 (Gallico's 71st birthday) entitled 'That's Gratitude', declaring that on birthdays 'it's better to receive than to give'! A few nice family items include a printed menu from. Seller Inventory # H6068.2
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