Search Results: three plays awake and sing waiting by odets clifford

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Random House. Used - Good. Good condition. No dust jacket. (drama) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Good.

New York, NY: Covici Friede, 1935. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & bright. Beige linen boards/NF w/trace bowing. DJ/None. Endpapers showing discoloration; tracepaper remanent to fEP (book plate removal?). Frontispiece: Stage scene photo; loose at lower edge. Collection of the three plays that earned Philadephia born, Bronx raised Clifford Odets (1906 - 1963) a reputation of a leading proletarian playwright, although he was less concerned with workers than the "fraud" of middleclass sector who were becoming increasingly aware that many of their cherished ideals were no longer based on reality. Awake and Sing (1935) and Till the Day I Die (1935) are about the struggle of German communists at the beginning of Hitler's regime. Waiting for Lefty (1935) deals with a taxi strike.

Kessinger Publishing, 2007-03-01. paperback. Used:Good.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. About fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny stains on the toned spine, and small chips at the spine ends.

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NY: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Oatmeal cloth first edition. Backstrip is a bit flattened and toned; very slightly cocked. Endpages slightly toned. Leaves are crisp. "Plays 5" pencilled to ffep. The DJ in mylar with $2.50 flap price intact has a few tiny dampstains and slight toning to spine, a short closed tear to rear panel and rubbing to joints, hint of edgewear to crown. ; Tan buckram stamped in brown and yellow, brown topstain. No add'l printings indicating first edition. Frontis photo is partially detached, textblock edge is foxed. Tiny sticker remnant to fep. Sound binding, unmarked. The DJ in mylar with flap price intact has very slight edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition. Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is bright and unfaded.

NY: Random House, 1935. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 74. Bookplate on pastedown, clipping glued on flyleaf. cover is on upside down, o/w VG in slightly worn dj.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

New York: Random House, 1935. Published in the same year as the Covici Friede First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [i]-xi, [1], 15-114, [1]-54, [1]-74, plus frontispiece. Book is fine. Dust jacket a little wrinkled and chipped along the edges; somewhat tanned along spine; not price-clipped ($2.50), VG+ in mylar.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Random House , 1935. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Odets signature on front endpaper. Photo upon request. Moderate age toning & soiling to covers. Toning to spine. Binding is firm. Spine is moderately shaken. Age spotting to fore edge of text block. Toning/light soiling to endpapers; otherwise interior is age toned, free of markings, with limited mild soiling in margins..

New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. First edition, second issue of Odet's first book, containing his first three plays, "Awake and Sing!," "Waiting for Lefty," and "Till the Day I Die," all of which were written for and premiered by the Group Theatre in the first half of 1935. Copy belonging to Emanuel "Manny" Fried, an understudy to Group Theatre co-founder Harold Clurman in the earliest days of its existence. Fried who went on to both write and produce plays, would eventually refuse to testify at the HUAC hearings and be blacklisted. INSCRIBED to Fried by Odets on the half-title: "At the end of a long season, Sincerely, Clifford Odets. 7/13/35." Also signed round-robin with inspirational quotations by 25 other individuals. Nearly all were founding members of the Group Theatre, involved in its earliest productions, and nearly all went on to have major careers on the stage and in cinema. Included among the inscriptions are: John Garfield (who signs under his given name of Jules, "Spit on your hands… Read More