Brother Rat (Original screenplay for the 1938 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Revised Final Draft script for the 1938 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board. Script with manuscript pencil annotations on the registration page, and "Important! Return Story Dept." stamps on registration page, page 1, and page 156. Script followed by two pages (155-156) of "Added Scenes."

Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).

Based on the 1936 play by John Monks Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoffe. Three cadets become friends at the Virginia Military Institute, where they lightheartedly play pranks and break rules. Actor Eddie Albert's debut feature film, and the set on which future husband and wife Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman would meet.

Set at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, and shot there on location.

Bound in maroon cloth with maroon quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and name in gilt on front board and gilt title on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated 6/22/38, noted as REV. FINAL, with credits for playwrights John Monks, Jr. and Fred F. Finklehoff, and screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley. 165 leaves, with last page of text numbered 156. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 6/27/38 and 8/4/38. Front endpaper partially detached, else pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, with light rubbing to the extremities.