Gideon. CHAYEFSKY (Paddy).

Playscript. Small folio. [286 x 225 mm]. [223] pp, printed on the recto only. Screwbound into Hart Stenographic blue wrappers. (Slight creasing to bottom right corner on a number of pages, otherwise a clean copy).

New York: Fred Coe & Arthur Cantor

[With] Gideon.

First Edition. 8vo. [214 x 145 x 20 mm]. [4] ff, 138, [2] pp. In original dust jacket with protective sleeve. (Slightly loose endleaf). [ebc8116].

New York: Random House, 1961.

A dramatic play recounting the story of Gideon, a judge in the Old Testament, in a seriocomic fashion. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie and starring Fredric March and Douglas Campbell, the play had a successful Broadway run in 1961 and was broadcast on NBC in 1971 as a Hallmark Hall of Fame special.

Paddy Chayefsky, original name Sidney Aaron Chayefsky, was an American playwright and screenwriter. His work played an important role in the emergence and rise of television dramas in the 1950s. Chayefsky earned four Academy Award nominations throughout his career, three for Original Screenplays and one for an Adapted. He is the only writer in movie history to win three solo writing Academy Awards.