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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1962). First Edition. Hardcover. [good solid copy, with just a touch of age-toning to the top of the text block; the jacket is browned at the edges, with a few small surface-scrapes and some light soiling, and has been "stretched" a bit so it now fits a little loosely on the book (which is somewhat corrected by the new mylar jacket cover)]. A collection of lesser-known works by the great American playwright. Per Inge's preface, his famous play "Picnic," as originally presented in 1953, had "never completely fulfilled [his] original intentions," so at some later date (after the play had earned him both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Critics' Circle Award, and had been adapted into a succesful movie), he dug back into his files for its "early version" -- "Summer Brave" -- and reworked it into the form published here. (He maintained that he preferred it to "Picnic,"…
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