24 FAVORITE ONE-ACT PLAYS by Cerf, Bennett & Van H. Cartmell, editors - 1958

Garden City: Doubleday. Very Good-. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is a little sun-darkened but lettering is unaffected, else Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Very minor edge soil. There is a little age-darkening in the margins and some ink marks on the Contents page, otherwise the contents are clean and unworn. No DJ. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION. 8-3/8" Tall, 455pp. Light gray cloth, black spine lettering. PLAYS. "The one-act play, enthusiastically fostered by popular playwrights like Noel Coward, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and William Inge, has come into its own. You will recognize in this volume some of the plays that brought about the change. Their taut construcation and economy of dialogue will hold a special appeal for you who have been plowing through some of the padded, endless, thousand-page novels publishers have been foistering on an arm-weary public. In selecting the contents for this volume, the editors tried in general to pick representative plays that could be staged advantageously by groupls with limited funds and facilities.." Stephen Vincent Benet, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connelly, George S. Kaufman, Eugene O'Neill, Ring Lardner, etc. , etc. Paragraph-length "Biographical Notes" of the authors. .