The Playground
by Broughton, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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Cohoes, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Centaur Press, San Francisco, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Zev. Signed by Author. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. This is the first book published by this press. Signed and inscribed by the author to the actor Walter Matthews on the front free endpaper. One of 1000 copies of this book. Brown paper over boards, drawings by Zev, pages unnumbered. Front cover bowed, bumped at head of spine, offsetting from the dust jacket on the endpapers, pages moderately toned. In an illustrated dust jacket that is soiled, chipped at corners, spine ends, along all edges, short tears here and there, three small holes. In a Brodart jacket. "The wry fantasy of this delightful play, written in a poetic idiom both witty and lyrical, probes with an agile irony the follies and hopes of our time. In the precarious playground of grown-ups, anxiety abides, ostriches are homeless, and the right bright balloon has a string attached. The Playground quietly won its author a Phelan Award and received its first production at Mills College. Here in a completely revised new version this deft and provocative work appears in book form for the first time. The many droll illustrations by Zev which accompany the text add their own note of playful perversity to this uneasy frolic through a precarious world." Illustrator: Zev. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 8 oz. Category: Theatre & Plays; Books; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 008265. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dennis Holzman Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008265
- Title
- The Playground
- Author
- Broughton, James
- Illustrator
- Zev
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Centaur Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- BZDB7 NOISBN James Broughton, The Playground, Zev, plays, theater, drama Theatre & Plays; Books; The Playground Broughton James
Terms of Sale
Dennis Holzman Antiques
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About the Seller
Dennis Holzman Antiques
Biblio member since 2003
Cohoes, New York
About Dennis Holzman Antiques
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- Brodart
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Inscribed
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
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- First Edition
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