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Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed by Sidney Howard in October, 1934! FINE BOOK, CLEAN AND TIGHT, IN VERY GOOD+ DJ WITH ORIGINAL $2.50 PRICE, LIGHT EDGEWEAR, AND SMALL CHIP AND WRINKLES AT TOP OF REAR PANEL. Uncommon signed trade ediiton.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis, Sinclair. Dodsworth: dramatized by Sidney Howard. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1934.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: lxxii + 162 pp, a Postscript on Dramatization by Sidney Howard and Sinclair Lewis. Signed on dedication page by Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Howard, & Russian born actress Maria Ouspenskaya. 5.75" x 8.4" pale gray cloth boards, red letters to fr cover and spine. Binding tight with slight forward lean, spine cloth slightly sun-tanned. Cloth with no external wear, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. Text block clean and even all around. In glassine wrapper Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Special presentation edition signed by the authors Sinclair Lewis and Sidney Howard. This issue was made in a tiny quantity specifically for members of the original Broadway production with a special printed page which reads ÒTo Jo Mielziner for helping to turn ÔDodsworthÕ from a manuscript into a play with gratitude of [hand signed in ink] Sinclair Lewis and [hand signed in ink] Sidney Howard. New York - September 1934.Ó Illustrated with photographs from the production. Fine bright copy in a fine dust jacket. An important presentation copy to, Jo Mielziner, who designed the sets for the original production. Sidney Howard discusses MielzinerÕs contribution in his essay on adapting the novel into play on pages xvi-xvii. Sidney Howard was a very successful Broadway playwright in the 1930s and wrote the screenplays for Gone With the Wind and both film adaptations of Sinclair LewisÕ Dodsworth and Arrowsmith. Jo Mielziner is arguably the most distinguished set designer in Broadway history creating the staging for such classics as the original productions of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, South Pacific, Carousel, Mister Roberts, Key Largo, Abe Lincoln In Illinois, Pal Joey, The King and I, Guys and Dolls, etc. An excellent association copy of a highly successful Broadway play.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.