American Playwrights: 1918 - 1938. The Theatre Retreats from Reality
by Flexner, Eleanor. With a Preface by John Glassner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. xx, 332 pp. Gray cloth, gilt decorations on spine, title gilt on red background. With a Preface by John Glassner. With index, and author biography. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Commentary on the plays of Clifford Odets and Irwin Shaw, actors Orson Welles and Burgess Meredeth, the Group Theater and Labor Stage. Newspaper clipping of book review laid in. VG in Good dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3935B
- Title
- American Playwrights: 1918 - 1938. The Theatre Retreats from Reality
- Author
- Flexner, Eleanor. With a Preface by John Glassner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Orson Welles, The Group Theatre, Labor Stage
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama/Theater;
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Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
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