Clash By Night

N.p.: N.p., 1941. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the Broadway premiere of Clifford Odets' dark social drama, set in Staten Island, this image showing leads Tallulah Bankhead and Joseph Schildkraut. On the verso is a very detailed mimeo snipe prominently mentioning Odets as the playwright, and stamped 12-25-41, two days prior to the opening of the play. … Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1942. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Spine lightly faded else very good. Octavo; pp; (x0, 242; red cloth, top edge stained blue, spine lettered in gilt. Romantic drama first produced on Broadway in 1941 starring Lee J. Cobb and Tallulah Bankhead. The play would eventually be adapted into the 1952 film directed by Fritz Lang… Read more about this item

NY: Random House. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth stated first printing hardcover, black topstain. Spine head slightly softened, bottom front board very faintly stained. Unmarked, firm binding. The DJ in mylar with flap price of $2.00 intact has trace of rubbing to spine edge. ; 8vo 8"… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, [1942]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white and black decorative dust jacket, black topstain; [10],242pp. Dampstain to jacket verso only just bleeding into cloth and exterior of rear panel, some general light shelf wear, spine rather toned, else Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. Romantic drama first produced on Broadway… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. Red cloth. Owner name on front fly, slightly sunned spine ends, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, and toned with an interior dampstain at the foot of the spine. The romantic drama that premiered on Broadway in… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Very good or better in a very good dust jacket.

CLASH BY NIGHT, Random House, 1942, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Not only a most successful Broadway play, but most successfully filmed with Fritz Lang as director in 1952 as well.

New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Very good or better in a very good dust jacket with tiny chips. Inscribed in 1942 by the author to an employee at Warner Brothers.

Random House, 1942. Hardcover. Odet's play ran for 49 performances in a Broadway production starring Tallulah Bankhead and directed by Lee Strasberg. It is better remembered today as the source for the 1952 film adaptation directed by Fritz Lang and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe. A very good copy in browned and lightly chipped dust jacket.