Signed contract with famous crime writer Raymond Chandler to adapt his story The King in Yellow for CBS Television, July 10, 1953

by Raymond Chandler

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Signed

New York: CBS Television, 1953. A two-page contract typescript of a contract with Raymond Chandler, the legendary British-born crime writer, to adapt his short story The King in Yellow with an explicit reference to Robert W. Chambers' cult classic collection of horror stories The King in Yellow, first published in 1895 into a TV show for CBS Television. Signed by Raymond Chandler on the bottom of the second

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