Portrait photograph of Beatrice Kaufman

by Beatrice Kaufman, Carl Van Vechten

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. Approximately 13-1/2 x 11 inches. Fine, with Van Vechten’s stamp on rear, docketed with number, and dated in ink. Item #56151 Beatrice Kaufman 1895-1945 was the wife of wife George S. Kaufman, a playwright in her own right, and the East Coast representative of Samuel Goldwyn Pictures. It was Beatrice who, upon reading the galleys of Steinbeck’s OF MICE AND MEN sent to her by Steinbeck’s agent Annie Laurie Williams,

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