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CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of Chayefsky seated in a three-quarter length pose holding a tobacco pipe in one hand and with an open book resting on his lap. Signed across a light area of the image, ´To Jim Wiggins, Where did you ever get this photograph? Paddy Chayefsky´ and dated 27th February 1962 in his hand. Scarce in this form. A few light surface creases, otherwise about VG

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CHAYEFSKY PADDY: (1923-1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist, Academy Award winner. Vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of Chayefsky seated in a three-quarter length pose holding a tobacco pipe in one hand and with an open book resting on his lap. Signed across a light area of the image, ´To Jim Wiggins, Where did you ever get this photograph? Paddy Chayefsky´ and dated 27th February 1962 in his hand. Scarce in this form. A few light surface creases, otherwise about VG

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