Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kaufman, George and Marc Connelly. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK: A Play in Two Parts.. NY 1924, 1924.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: second printing Boni and Liverwright, Aamstar Drama, owner's sig. FFEP, VG-/none.
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small octavo bound in black cloth with red labels on spine & front cover. Includes fake newspaper folded between pp. 166 & 167. Condition: spine cloth & label soiled; considerable acidic offset from newspaper to facing pages, 166 & 167; else very good. 237 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Black stamped cloth, paper title labels, 237 pp., envelope containing fake newspaper excerpt. Second printing. Does include the "fake newspaper" that was issued with the original publication. With a preface by Alexander Woollcott. VG- (Some spots or marks on cover, no dj, tanning on pp. 166-167 where included fake newspaper once resided, which is now in envelope at same spot and shows age and wear.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Kaufman, George S. and Marc Connelly. Beggar on Horseback. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1924.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black cloth, orange topstain, paper labels to front and spine. First edition. Slight sunning to spine, topstain a bit faded. Tipped in is the folding facsimile newspaper (as issued) which has offset to surrounding pages; minor bump to top edge. PO name else sound and square copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black cloth boards w/orange paste on titles are well-bound, lightly bumped at spine ends & soiled from handling & age, title paper on spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly-leaf, a spot or 2 of foxing & tanning where a newspaper was inserted between plays, otherwise, clean, sharp pages throughout.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 237 pp, with olding facsimile newspaper. Original black cloth with red paper labels on spine and front board. Corners bumped, a few light scuff marks. Old repairs evident at hinges, but binding quite sound. Offsetting from facsimile, text otherwise clean. Dust jacket missing large chips near head and foot of spine. Original $2.00 price present. In mylar. An experimental, but successful satirical play that explores the tension between holding firm to one's artistic instincts and making compromises for commercial gain.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
KAUFMAN, George and Marc Connelly. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1924.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., pp. 237. Inscribed by Anne Carpenter (Gladys in the play). Section of a joke newspaper pasted in on page 167. A nice copy in little chipped dj. The brilliant fantasy -satire.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: There is a moderate tear at binding (impacting no type) to the folded newspaper -- delivered during the acts in the theater, but here still firmly bound in place, between the acts. Otherwise "good plus in a very-good original jacket" still priced $2 to front flap. Here reduced from $230.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 237 pp. 8vo, publisher's black cloth with printed paper labels, in dust jacket. First edition. A little bumping and use at extremities; tight and sound in a jacket with minor edge wear. With two copies of an ostensible newspaper account handed out in the theater between the acts laid in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
KAUFMAN, George S. and Marc Connelly. Beggar on Horseback. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1924.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Two pages in the middle of the text are darkened where a parody newspaper was tipped-in and is now partially lacking, as usual with this title, some chipping to the bottom of the paper spine label, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. This copy is Inscribed by Connelly to a Broadway producer: "To Sidley Brown, Who gave me another automobile. Marc Connelly, Christmas, 1925." A splendid association. Basis for the 1925 James Cruze film featuring Edward Everett Horton, famous for its fantastic, surrealistic dream sequence, reminiscent of German cinema of the time but unlike anything else produced in America in that era.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 237pp. Black cloth, title on orange label affixed to spine and cover. First edition, with no additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Fold-out newspaper clippings included, originally affixed to book between Part I and Part II, now in delicate condition, broken at seams and fragile. In publisher's first state jacket, $2.00, reinforced at hinges with archival repairs, toning to spine, but overall bright illustrations and vibrant colors, a very good example. Beggar on Horseback played on Broadway in 1924 and ran for 223 performances. It was released as a silent film in 1925 by Paramount Pictures and the play was revived in 1970 for a short run at the Lincoln Center.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Octavo, black cloth with paste-down labels on front and spine. Includes a "newspaper" handed out in the theater between the acts, tipped in between Acts 1 and 2, 4 pp., newspaper format. The newspaper and adjoining pages are age-darkened. The text is Very Good: tight binding, no owner's name, with minor wear to extremities, a bit faded along the edges. Fragile dj is not price-clipped, slight, even fading to the spine and front panel, slight loss to the extremities with a few small chips, fold betwen front panel and spine splitting. Still a very presentable dj in loose mylar sleeve. INSCRIBED: "It doesn't have to be read. George, June 1924". Signed copies of this book are scarce.
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kaufman, George Simon. Beggar on Horseback A Play in Two Parts. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1924.
Price: US$599.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black cloth first printing with orange labels to spine and front cover, orange topstain. Spine ends/bottom corners mildly softened, faint scuffing to front board top corner. Tipped in newspaper present at page 167 with inevitable offset to surrounding pages. Price-clipped DJ in mylar faintly toned at spine and a trifle worn at spine ends. Sound binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Kaufman, George and Marc Connelly. Beggar On Horseback. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1924.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this successful play. Attractive near fine example with tipped in newspaper clipping in very good or better price intact dustwrapper with just a few small chips to spine ends.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.