Plays by Lillian Hellman, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a small chip and some tears. Inscribed beneath the author's name on the half-title: "Who sends it to Mrs. Clark with warn regards. Lillian Hellman.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by LILLIAN HELMAN ( in the year of publication ) to the previous owners on the first white page. First edition stated on the copyright page. Hard bound in dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket that shows a chip to the upper front edge. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding sound. RARE! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth boards are Good with fading on cover and spine. Text is clean and bright in a tight and true binding. Appears to be inscribed on title page below the title by Hellman "who gives them to Sarah with great affection in August 1952." Handwriting matches examples found online. Sarah is mostly likely Sarah Cameron a woman Hellman encountered off and on and served as the subject of her book, Maybe: A Story. A rare find. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Printing Large 8vo.pp.815. Twelve theatre plays, being the collected plays of Lillian Hellman. Signed presentation from the author: "For Klaus Harpprecht with warmest regards. Lillian Hellman." Original publisher's cloth binding in red with gilt lettering at spine & black endpapers. Klaus Harpprecht (1927-2016) was a German journalist and novelist and chief speech writer for Willi Brandt. Lillian Florence Hellman (1905Ð1984) was an American playwright, author, and screenwriter. She was also known for her communist sympathies and political activism causing her to be blacklisted by the American film industry . Very good indeed in near very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly used & slightly nicked but protected by a clear sleeve. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Red cloth titled in gilt. Book Club Edition. Signed by Hellman to the title page. Slight rubbing to edges and points; slight toning to endpages. The DJ in mylar is lightly edgeworn, worn to points, lightly foxed/stained to front panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Ed Thus. 8vo. pp xiv, 330 + publishers advertisements.op red cloth lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Loosely inserted is a good signed typed one page letter to from 1942 to James Mulvey at Samuel Goldwyn on 7th Avenue New York ,it reads 'Dear Jim, here is all this junk back again and consent to the assignment to Samuel GoldwynÉ Upon the express proviso that in the event such an assignment is made Samuel GoldwynÉ Will execute and forward to me as a separate contract of assumption of all abilities no obligations in said contract in form satisfactory to my counsel sincerely Lillian.' Her name 'Lillian' is signed in ink by her. James A. Mulvey was a prominent film executive who served as president of the Samuel Goldwyn Company. In the mid-1930s, Mulvey and Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights to Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour, and they hired Hellman herself to write the screenplay for the 1936 Goldwyn-produced film These Three. The business relationship between the studio and the playwright was ongoing. Documents like the Bonhams Lillian Hellman Ephemera show that Hellman corresponded with Mulvey in the early 1940s regarding ongoing theatrical and film adaptations. Very good indeed in about very good clean dust wrapper very slightly chipped at spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed to theatrical management Julie Dorr. From Dorr's collection. Binding, text VG. Cover G with slight fading. Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First collected edition (?). Octavo, 330pp. Presumed first thus, unstated, which seems to have been typical of Random House plays during this period. A very good copy, sunned on the spine, with mold toning to extremities. Small ink scribble on the rear free endpaper. Lacking the dust jacket. A superb association copy, and in part the dedication copy, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Hellman on the front free endpaper to Herman Shumlin, who produced and directed all four of these plays on Broadway: "For Herman, see page xii Lillian Feb 1942." The passage referenced reads, "Herman Shumlin has directed and produced all four of the plays. On all four he has worked with the high seriousness which is the first requirement of a good artist." She continues for a full paragraph, extolling his virtues as a director and interpreter of her work. "Watch on the Rhine" was dedicated to Shumlin, and that dedication leaf appears just before the play in this volume, as it did in the first trade edition. An extremely appealing association copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed and dated by Hellman on the first free endpaper to her personal secretary Edith Lustgarten. A very good copy in the publisher's blue cloth covered boards, morocco - style label on the spine stamped gilt, lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by Author.