![]() ![]() Interior fine light rubbing to spine ends. Without original printed publisher’s note from Howard Fast. The 1960 premiere of Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning film adaptation broke the Hollywood blacklist by awarding on-screen credit to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. ![]() When publishers rejected this epic work after Fast was blacklisted, he published the novel himself and its immediate popularity made Spartacus “the only self-published best-seller in recent history” (Wald, “Legacy”). Son of a factory worker, Howard Fast published his first novel before the age of 20 and quickly established himself as “a literary phenomenon… the champion of the progressive novel in the United States” ( Guardian). Octavo, original navy cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this popular historical novel, boldly signed by Harold Fast. New York: Published by the Author, (1951). “A WHISPER OF SOMEONE CALLED SPARTACUS WHO HAS SET THE WORLD ON FIRE”: SPARTACUS, BOLDLY SIGNED BY HOWARD FASTįAST, Howard. ![]()
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