Zelcer Alfred (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 182pp. I11. Green, Laura (illustrator).

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 135. Bound in blue cloth with titles stamped in orange on spine. Laminated color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "To John Price, Best Wishes, David Mamet, June 1981, NYC." The provocative cover art for the Obie Award-winning theatrical script by Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago mirrors the main play's themes of modern romance, the swinging singles scene, and the raw sexual dynamics of the early 1970's, and adapted into the 1986 film About Last Night starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore about a young couple navigating a tumultuous romance against the crude, misogynistic advice of their older friend-mentors. The secondary play The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two elderly men sitting on a park bench, whose conversation pivots to ducks, revealing their individual outlook on friendship, mortality and natural law. A fine copy, personally inscribed by the playwright and now housed in a clear removable archival sleeve. Alfred Zelcer jacket design (illustrator). Signed.…