THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO: A Comedy
by Laurents, Arthur
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. A play about the bittersweet romance between a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe and a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Directed by Harold Clurman, The Time of the Cuckoo opened at the Empire Theater on October 15, 1952. The production ran for 263 performances, earning Shirley Booth the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. It was adapted for the silver screen under the title Summertime (1955) with Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi starring. Octavo: [iv], 184 p. with a frontispiece photograph by Vandamm. Original cloth binding, with a photographic illustration inset on the front board and decorative black and gilt stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76254
- Title
- THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO: A Comedy
- Author
- Laurents, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Plays, Theater, Broadway, American Literature, Performing Arts, Books into Film
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...