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Rashomon: a play by fay & michael kanin Based on stories by ryunosuke akutagawa
by KANIN, Fay & Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1959. [xiv], 76pp. With three leaves of photographs. Original publisher's yellow cloth-backed blue paper boards, lettered and stamped in gilt and black, with a photographic portrait laid on. With the original publishers printed dustwrapper. Spine a trifle cocked, top and bottom edge fading, with some marking to both boards; wrapper is sunned and nicked at the edges. Internally bright and clean, with the presentation inscription to the FFEP: 'To Larry - With deepest respect and admiration. Fay and Mike' dated Sept 11, 1957. Fay and Michael Kanin wrote for both stage and screen as a collaborative force in the arts for much of their marriage, beginning with their first adapted screenplay Sunday Punch (1942) - written on their honeymoon - to which MGM bought the rights. They were nominated for a joint Academy Award in 1958 for Teacher's Pet, among many other accolades. Fay went on to be president of the Academy from 1979 to 1983. From the library of Laurence Olivier, to whom many books were gifted over the length of his illustrious, industrious, and enduring career as one of the most important figures of stage and screen in the 20th century. . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ31237
- Title
- Rashomon: a play by fay & michael kanin Based on stories by ryunosuke akutagawa
- Author
- KANIN, Fay & Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Plays, Theatre
Terms of Sale
Antiquates Ltd
Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Dustwrapper
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