Item #8662 Tancred of Sage [Typed Manuscript published as "Bitter Sage"]. Weird Tales, Frank Gruber, Pulp Fiction.
Tancred of Sage [Typed Manuscript published as "Bitter Sage"]
Tancred of Sage [Typed Manuscript published as "Bitter Sage"]

Tancred of Sage [Typed Manuscript published as "Bitter Sage"]

[Hollywood]: [Ca. 1953]]. Manuscript. 11x8.5" sheets, mimeo'd copy, typed rectos only, 222pp. From the library of Frank Gruber label inside front cover, H.N. Swanson Inc. stamps to front cover and title sheet, "to be published by Rinehart" in manuscript on title sheet. Brad bound in blue wrappers with title on front cover. Toning and soiling to wraps, pages clean. Very good.

Manuscript copy from one of the more prolific pulp and screen writers of the mid century, Frank Gruber (1904-1969).  Gruber began writing stories for Weird Tales, Shadow Magazine, The Spider, Black Mask, Dime Mystery, and others, publishing some 300 stories for over 40 magazines in the span of about 30 years.  Once he caught on as a writer, he began turning his attention to novels, generally in the Western and Detective Fiction genres, publishing more than 60 in his lifetime.  He also penned 65 screenplays, and numerous television scripts.  


This novel, published as Bitter Sage by Rinehart in 1954, was adapted into the 1956 film Tension at Table Rock, directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Richard Egan.  Winston Miller wrote the screenplay based on Gruber's novel.  An excellent representation of the work, in manuscript form, of a versatile and influential writer across many literary and media genres.  
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