Original prepublication screenplay, 161 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Contemporary typescript reproduction bound in plain red wrappers. Copyright 1979, registered with the Writers Guild of America East. With a press clipping laid in.
An early, prepublication screenplay by Alan Greenberg (1950–2015), dramatizing the life and legend of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson (1911–1938). Set in Mississippi during the 1930s, the script incorporates historical figures including Charley Patton and record producer Don Law, combining blues history, folklore, and religious imagery in an imaginative reconstruction of Johnson's life and death. The screenplay was acquired by Mick Jagger during its early development but never filmed. It was subsequently published by Doubleday in 1983, with later editions including a 1994 Da Capo edition featuring a foreword by Martin Scorsese. This copy represents the screenplay in its original, prepublication typescript form, although its textual relationship to the published editions has not been established.
Laid in is a circa spring 1980 press profile of Greenberg by Seth Cagin, discussing his association with Werner Herzog and contemporary film projects, stamped "FILE COPY."
Wrappers with light rubbing and bumping. Title leaf lightly toned, with small crease at lower corner. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Very Good overall.
Original prepublication screenplay, 161 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. Contemporary typescript reproduction bound in plain red wrappers. Copyright 1979, registered with the Writers Guild of America East. With a press clipping laid in.
An early, prepublication screenplay by Alan Greenberg (1950–2015), dramatizing the life and legend of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson (1911–1938). Set in Mississippi during the 1930s, the script incorporates historical figures including Charley Patton and record producer Don Law, combining blues history, folklore, and religious imagery in an imaginative reconstruction of Johnson's life and death. The screenplay was acquired by Mick Jagger during its early development but never filmed. It was subsequently published by Doubleday in 1983, with later editions including a 1994 Da Capo edition featuring a foreword by Martin Scorsese. This copy represents the screenplay in its original, prepublication typescript form, although its textual relationship to the published editions has not been established.
Laid in is a circa spring 1980 press profile of Greenberg by Seth Cagin, discussing his association with Werner Herzog and contemporary film projects, stamped "FILE COPY."
Wrappers with light rubbing and bumping. Title leaf lightly toned, with small crease at lower corner. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Very Good overall.
