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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.
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$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