COMPULSION A PLAY BY MEYER LEVIN
Language: English
Published by SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NEW YORK, NY, 1959
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.Aah Rare Chicago
AbeBooks seller since February 27, 1999
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 23.40
Quantity: 1 available
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xliii +132 PAGES. THE 1" X 1/.2" BOTTOM PAPER OF THE DUST JACKET SPINE HAS BEEN TORN AWAY. THE JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. THE "CHEAP" PAPER IS TONED WITH AGE. THE INTERIOR OF THE BOOK IS OTHERWISE TIGHT AND CLEAN. THERE IS A FORMER BOOK OWNER'S INSCRIPTION, NAME AND ADDRESS ON THE FIRST FREE END PAGE. THIS IS AN INTERESTING THEATRE PLAYSCRIPT OF MEYER LEVIN'S POPULAR BEST SELLING BOOK "COMPULSION." THE PLAY WAS STAGED IN 1957 IN TWO ACTS AND 24 SCENES ON BROADWAY. THE LENGTHY FOREWARD BY MEYER LEVIN ON PAGES v--xl (20) PAGES CONTAINS A LENGTHY CRITICISM OF THE PLAYSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR MEYER LEVIN ,OF THE BOOK"COMPULSION, " THE AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL BOOK CLAIMS THAT HE WAS NOT ALOWED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WRITING OF THE PLAY BY THE BROADWAY PRODUCERS OF THE PLAY . HE CLAIMS FURTHER THAT SUCH A PRACTICE WAS A COMMON EVENT ON BROADWAY IN THE NEW YORK THEATRE DISTRICT. HE POSES THE RATIONAL FOR SUCH RESTICTIONS AS A CULTURE OF NEW YORK THEATRE PRODUCERS. , THE PLAY CONSISTS OF AN INTERVIEW OF THE ONE REMAINING MURDERER OF A SMALL BOY IN CHICAGO IN 1924. THE BOOK IS LISTED IN "CHICAGO IN STORY A LIERARY HISTORY" BT CLARENCE A, ANDREWS" WHO STATES THAT MEYER LEVIN ACCUSED A ROBERT THOM OF BEING THE REWRITER OF HIS TALE OF THE LEOPOLD AND LOEB MURDER CRIME. THE STORY WAS ALSO MADE INTO A MOVIE IN 1959 THAT STARRED ORSON WELLES. Size: 5" X 7 7/8".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- COMPULSION A PLAY BY MEYER LEVIN
- Author
- MEYER LEVIN
- Publisher
- SIMON AND SCHUSTER, NEW YORK, NY
- Publication year
- 1959
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- FAIR CONDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- BOOKS INTO MOVIES, CHICAGO, CHICAGO IN STORY
Aah Rare Chicago
Carlsbad, CA, U.S.A.
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Aah! Rare Chicago specializes in collections of Chicago authors such as David Mamet, Ben Hecht, Vincent Starrett,James T. Farrell, Eugene Field, George Ade, Studs Terkel and many others along with collections of Chicago Publishers such as Stone and Kimball and Way and Willams. We have hundreds of books about Chicago dating back to the early 1800s including Crime, Prostitution, Banking, Mayors, Architecture, Newspapers, Sports, the 1968 Democratic convention riots including posters and the subsequent conspiracy trial, Prefire imprints and Business. Much of the material is very difficult to find material such as in early in magazines and other ephemera.…
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