La Turista
by SHEPARD, Sam
First Edition
Price: $2,500.00
- Bookseller: Ken Lopez - Bookseller, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 027093
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
- Place: Indianapolis
- Date published: (1968)
Book Description
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. (1968). The galley sheets of this play, Shepard's first full-length play and his second play to be published. Claspbound, front cover tanned and separating; rear cover has date and price and "DUPL NYPL." Front cover has the name of Paul Myers, curator of the Theatre Collection at the New York Public Library. Very good. Laid in are the galleys of Elizabeth Hardwick's introduction, dated 1967. Shepard is most well-known these days as an actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as test pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for Buried Child and he has won eleven Obie awards and been nominated for two Tonys, for Buried Child and True West. He received the Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992. A fragile and rare early state of this play by one of the most important playwrights of the latter half of the 20th century. The only copy we have seen. . First Edition.
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