THE ADDING MACHINE
by Rice, Elmer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare signed first edition of socialist, Piulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, inscribed on the ffe: "to Leonard L. Hess E. L. R. July 1923". Hess was a NYC author, whose short stories appeared in the American Mercury, Harper's Weekly, The Bookman and The Saturday Review mid-1920s-early 1930s. Rice was one of the founders of the Playwright's Company, along with Mazwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Kurt Weil and lawyer John F. Wharton 1938. The Adding Machine has been revived in recent years, this uncommon first edition of the play a production of The Theatre Guild. Orange cloth, black stamped titles, lacking dw. Covers soiled, mostly about edges and spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011580
- Title
- THE ADDING MACHINE
- Author
- Rice, Elmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1923
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABAA-NY , ,
Terms of Sale
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
returns within 10 days of purchase
About the Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Salisbury, Connecticut
About Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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