The Williamsburg Trilogy: Summer in Williamsburg; Homage to Blenholt; Low Company [*SIGNED*]

New York: Equinox/Avon Books. Very Good. 1972. 1st printing thus. Softcover. NOISBN . [some age-toning to page edges, small brown spot at top of front cover, a couple of soft diagonal creases in front cover] Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Hedda & Vincent, / Old friends, / Daniel / 2/6/73." The author's trilogy of Jewish slum life in New York City; the novels were originally published in 1934, 1936 and 1937, respectively. (The last of the three, Low Company, was the basis for the 1947 film THE GANGSTER, for which the characters and milieu were completely de-Semitized, if that's a word.) The inscribees were film director Vincent Sherman and his wife; Sherman and Fuchs had been acquainted personally and professionally since the 1930s, and collaborated on the 1943 Warner Bros. film THE HARD WAY, starring Ida Lupino, which Sherman directed from a screenplay by Fuchs and Peter Viertel. Signed by Author .