The Thing of It Is . . .

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1967). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with just the teensiest bit of shelfwear; jacket lightly scuffed on front panel, minor wear to extremities]. "A closely woven, sharply focused story of a young couple vacationing in London and Rome and Venice, in the hope of salvaging their faltering marriage." A screenplay adaptation (by Goldman) kicked around Hollywood for a number of years, with various big-name talents either "interested in" or "attached to" it (among them Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Mia Farrow), but the movie was never made; Goldman recounts the saga in his memoir "Adventures in the Screen Trade." .