THE CONVERSION OF BUSTER DRUMWRIGHT by Jesse Hill Ford Preface by Jesse Hill Ford. Foreword by Donald Davidson. Nashville: Vanderbilt, (1964). First edition, first printing. Contains eight illustrations from the television and play productions. Comprises THE CONVERSION OF BUSTER DRUMWRIGHT in the complete television script, written for the required forty-seven minute air-time, and the longer play version written for the creatively flexible live theater. The controversial story, employs both whites and African-Americans, is set in Tennessee, and involves desires for revenge of a murder, resolutions, morals, and good-and-evil questions. Ford wrote the screenplay adaptation, a film directed by William Wyler, from his novel THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES. Fine in golden-sand linen with black embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket with a minuscule rub to the upper corner tip; original printed $3.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 174 pages. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!