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4 pages, printed and typed with red ink corrections. 16¼x10¼, original pre-folded standard contractual document, placed inside a manila envelope with Cain’s Hyattsville address stamped at the top left corner and “Love’s Lovely Counterfeit / Contract / Knopf” written in blue ink, in the author’s hand, across the front.

Purchase, Rights, and Royalties agreement between James M. Cain and Alfred A. Knopf for Cain's book, Love’s Lovely Counterfeit. Signed by Alfred Knopf and a witness (but not by Cain), with some of the contract stipulations struck in red. Cain’s personal copy, probably placed in the envelope some time after the contract was signed, as the author’s 1942 Hollywood address is noted on the contract (Cain returned to Maryland in 1948).