first edition hardcover
1949 · New York
by GASSNER, John, (ed.)
New York: Crown, 1949. First. hardcover. very good(+). 756 pages, top edge gilt, double column text, margins trimmed, large thick 8vo, rebound in red morocco over patterned boards, (several small dakr spots of soil to back cover, corners a bit rubbed), decoratively gilt stamped spine with raised bands, patterned endpapers. New York: Crown Publishers, (1949). First edition. A very good(+) copy. Contains plays by Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Gassner, Eugene O'Neil, Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, George Kelly, Philip Dunning and George Abbott, Philip Barry, Robert E. Sherwood, S.N. Behrman, Dorothy and DuBose Heyward, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Hickerson, Elmer Rice, Preston Sturges, John L. Balderston, Lewis Beach, Susan Glaspell, Paul Green, and E.P. Conkle (Inventory #: 269925)