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Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls Blue Plate Money From Home First Edition 1935

Description: Guys and Dolls: three volumes in one Guys and Dolls, Money from Home, & Blue Plate SpecialRunyon, Damon, jacket drawing by Harry BeckhoffPublished by Lippincott 1935, PhiladelphiaFirst Edition Fourth Printing. Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880[1][2] – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and short-story writer.[3] He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts.[4] He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". His distinctive vernacular style is known as Runyonese: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions. He is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe the upper-class version of a loud-mouthed, arrogant twit. Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure".[5] The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick The Winner". The film Little Miss Marker (and its three remakes, Sorrowful Jones, 40 Pounds of Trouble and the 1980 Little Miss Marker) grew from his short story of the same name. Runyon was also a newspaper reporter, covering sports and general news for decades for various publications and syndicates owned by William Randolph Hearst. Already known for his fiction, he wrote a well-remembered "present tense" article on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential inauguration in 1933 for the Universal Service, a Hearst syndicate, which was merged with the co-owned International News Service in 1937.

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Binding: Hardcover

Place of Publication: United States

Language: English

Illustrator: Harry Beckhoff

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket

Author: Damon Runyon

Publisher: J.B. Lippincott

Topic: Humor

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Original/Facsimile: Original

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