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Published by Piccadilly Theatre, London, 1933
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. May Whitty, Marie Ney, and Alan Napier. Book.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1933
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. mylar-covered dust jacket has a 2 inch surface tear along spine, a tape repaired closed tear along upper edge, toning and otherwise light wear along edges.
Published by Performance Programme Dated -1927 Season. 1926., 1926
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Original single sheet folded souvenir theatre programme 7½'' x 5'' with black lettering. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.
Published by Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1933
Seller: The Groaning Board, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition softcover. Stamp of previous owner on front end-paper. Toning wear to cover, especially at spine. Book somewhat slanted. The Lake was first performed at the Arts Theatre Club on Wednesday, March 1st, 1933, and was transferred to the Westminster Theatre on Wednesday, March 15th, 1933. From reviews on the back: The best new play in London. A play of bright wit and bitter irony. 126 pages. In the Broadway production December 26, 1933, Katharine Hepburn appeared in one of her first major roles. M04264.
Published by London: Rich & Cowan Ltd, 1933
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Signed
Condition: Very Good. Hard cover book. Revised edition October 1933. Half leather blue binding, banded spine, gilt. 130pp, One black and white photographic plate. A decorative double page is pasted into the front of the book and reads: 'Ormscliffe Dramatic Society (Inland Revenue) Presented to Alfred M. Beale Esq. by members of the Society as a mark of their appreciation of his production of the play "The Lake" at the Pier Pavilion Llandudno on the 23rd, 24th and 25th March 1942'. It lists the parts played and is signed by each player. Some minor foxing to edges. A Very Good copy. Nicely bound. Pictures available.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Co, Garden City, N.Y., 1934
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Play written in conjunction with Murray MacDonald concerning a bewildered young woman who is played by Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production. Hepburn is pictured at the rear panel of the dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few edge nicks and light wear.
Published by New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (HEPBURN, Katharine.) MASSINGHAM, Dorothy in conjunction with Murray MACDONALD. The Lake: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1933. First American edition. Presentation copy signed by Katherine Hepburn who starred in the first Broadway production: To Richard Aldrich/ Katharine Hepburn . With Richard Aldrich s Casa de Aldrich armorial bookplate on free front endpaper. Bound in full blue Spanish calf leather, with author and title in gilt on spine, separated by raised bands also decorated in gilt; marbled paper end papers; speckled edges. The faintest of foxing on second front and back free endpapers, otherwise a Near Fine copy. Note: The Lake debuted on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn's first major Broadway roles. Directed by Jed Harris, the notorious "big bad wolf" of American theatre, the play was a critical and popular flop, though it had a respectable run of 55 nights. Hepburn in particular drew sharp rebukes in the newspapers, many of which were penned by the same critics who loved her in The Warrior's Husband. Columnist Dorothy Parker famously quipped that Hepburn "ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." Despite the poor response, Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, "My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you." Hepburn refused, and paid Harris everything she had, $13,675, to close the production instead. Hepburn later referred to Harris as "hands-down the most diabolical person I have ever met", and claimed this experience was important in teaching her to take responsibility for her career. In 1937, Hepburn included a line from The Lake in the film Stage Door, thus making fun of her biggest failure. The line became one of Hepburn's signature catchphrases: "The calla lilies are in bloom again, such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion.". Signed by Author(s).