The Green Pastures

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine faded, light wear to board edges and corners, and light wear to slipcase.. 4to. Plates by Robert Edmond Jones. Original green boards, gilt-lettered and decorated, unopened; publisher's board slipcase. The author's copy: Copy no. 2 of this large-paper edition, printed at the Lakeside Press, signed by the author and illustrator. One of 550 copies. Laid-in is an autograph note on the publisher's letterhead by Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr. to Marc Connolly, "Dear Marc – With the affectionate regards of John [C. Farrar] and myself. / Stan / 21 October." Winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 'The Green Pastures' was originally published by Farrar & Rinehart in an unillustrated edition in 1929.