A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter [*SIGNED*]

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1976). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels, a bit of wear along top edge, including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del, / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love, / Meta Wilde / March 1, 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with [William] Faulkner, [which] began when she was a script (truncated) girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY, and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors, working well into the 1980s (sometimes under the name Meta Rebner), with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE GRADUATE, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 25943)