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New Voices in the American Theatre (Modern Library #258.3)
by ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1962]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #258.3. --- With soiling and foxing to textblock fore-edge, otherwise a clean, firmly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with a 2-inch tear near head of spine, some rubbing and other tears and creases to edges, else intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 559 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81829
- Title
- New Voices in the American Theatre (Modern Library #258.3)
- Author
- ATKINSON, Brooks (foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1962]
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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