Jerry horwin (3 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. First revised edition. 12mo. Stapled printed wrappers. Spine lightly toned, else a near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first edition hardcover, no writing. Endpapers slightly toned. Adobe cloth boards, gilt lettering. No writing, no foxing. Introduction by John Barrymore, who acted in this play. The script and introduction contain a lot of Barrymore's famous adlibs. Staged by Otto L. Preminger. My Dear Children was Turney's greatest success, which was performed on Broadway for 117 performances, only stopping when Barrymore grew tired of it. M06098. …

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Indeed. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A vert scarce first edition, first impression of Turney and Horwin"s Broadway comedy, illustrated with production photographs and complete with the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with three monochrome photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Complete with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. A three-act comedy-farce set in a chateau in the Swiss Alps near Basle in 1938. The play centres on Allan Manville, a theatrical patriarch and ageing actor, and the chaotic emotional claims of his family, lovers and dependents. The original Broadway production opened at the Belasco Theatre, New York, on 31 January 1940, and ran for 117 performances. From the theatrical collection of Clive Hirschhorn, theatre critic for the Sunday Express from 1966 to 1993. Known for his witty and thorough reviews, features and interviews, Hirschhorn also authored several works on the film industry, including his critically acclaimed biographies of Hollywood stars, Gene Kelly and James Mason. A renowned book collector, the majority of works from Hirschhorn"s incredible library of theatre-related material have a characteristic pencil inscription with his date of acquisition to the upper corner of the paste down. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Slight lifting to front paste down, likely where a bookplate has been removed. Very slight shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Clipped; flaps trimmed. Slight edge wear to extremities with one or two small closed tears, chips, and creases to upper extremities. Light soiling to wraps with one or two very minor handling marks and spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with slight age toning to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. Morse-Pix; H. A. Atwell Studio (ilustrador). book.…