By a Stroke of Luck! An Autobiography

302pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, blue titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Text block edges starting to fox. Pages starting to tan. Red endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket top edge sun faded, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Autobiography of the witty, funny, charming Hollywood screenwriter recalling his relationships with some of the most stimulating people of his time, including Scott Fitzgerald, Clark Gable, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Edmund Wilson and Charles Chaplin.