The Golden Touch
New York: Random House, 1941.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Item #16131
Cloth tone, top edge soiled, endpapers tone, light cock, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn with 1/4" tears and small chips, rub, wear. Solid hardcover. ; "Born Chauncey (later Henri) Weiner (sometimes Wiener), he was known as Stephen Longstreet from 1939. He wrote as Paul Haggard, David Ormsbee and Thomas Burton, and Longstreet, as well as his birth name." - Wikipedia. Bennett Cerf, his Random House publisher, truncated his family's Weiner-Longstrasse surname to create the pseudonym Stephen Longstreet. "In Mike Seabrook the author of Decade has created a character with the audacity of a robber baron and the morality of a satyr. Whatever he touches turns to gold, and his power grows after every new plunge into the market. Seabrook's adventures in love are no less successful than his financial skulduggeries - until he meets Leda Owen. Their romance gives an unexpected turn to his fortunes and brings him face to face with an emotional problem that never entered the calculations of a Wall Street manipulator." Film rights were sold to Twentieth-Century Fox, and while Henry Fonda was cast as the lead, the movie apparently was never produced. First Edition, First Printing of the second novel published as Stephen Longstreet. ; 317 pages.
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