Introducing C.B. Greenfield

Crown, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. This is the author's first mystery and the author's own copy. It is bound in 1/2 Moroccan leather with spine titles and decorative rules (titles partially rubbed away, only Greenfield is visible) 5 raised bands, TEG, marble boards and endpapers. This is a very nice copy with some foxing to the page edges. Lucille Kallen was " the lone woman in the raucous, celebrated and astonishingly untidy group of television writers behind Sid Caesar's ''Your Show of Shows,' Sid Caesar's writer's room has been fictionally recreated many times. Neil Simon, one of the writers, memorialized it in his play Laughter on the 23rd Floor; it formed the centerpiece of the 1982 film My Favorite Year, and most famously, it was the office in which Rob Petrie worked in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Laid in is a rough draft 14 page typescript for a sketch from Your Show of Shows. Originally titled Home Late Sketch by Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen and Max Liebman Show of Shows #32, these have been crossed out in ink as has the scene description. Lines are added and deleted throughout for this 2 person skit meant to be performed by Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Script is very good, some stapled pages, some loose, with some age darkening and light wear. From the estate of Lucille Kallen. A unique item..