The Hill; an original screenplay [*SIGNED*]

Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, with only minimal wear to both book and jacket]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To / Walter & Mickey / Love & admiration / Howard Fast." "In this original screen play based on the account of Christ's passion in St. Mark's gospel, the modern Calvary is Harlem's Mount Morris Park, and Josue (Jesus) is delivered in a squad car to the steel-and-glass offices of Pontius Pilate." The author explains in his Preface how he has used the technique of the miracle plays of the Middle Ages to tell "the story in the terms, the symbols, and the speech of today, accepting the anachronisms and non sequiturs, and using them without trying to explain them." (I'm trying to imagine the pitch meeting for this screenplay, which unsurprisingly was never filmed.) Signed by Author .