BEST PLAYS OF THE MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE : SECOND SERIES

John Gassner (Editor)

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, NY, 1947

About this Item

Text/Bright, clean & Near New. Red linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Faint creasing to title page. PO name to fEP dated 1949. Anthology of 17 plays edited by Hungarian-America drama critic, scholar, and professor John Gassner (1903 -1967). All the plays, with complete text, were staged between 1939 -1946, during World War II --- as playwritwrights adjusted to the melodrama of warfare. 774 pgs, the plays are: 1, The Glass Menagerie; 2, The Time of Your Life; 3, I Remember Mama; 4, Life With Father; 5, Born Yesterday; 6, The Voice of The Turtle; 7, The Male Animal; 8, The Man Who Came To Dinner; 9, Dream Girl; 10, The Philadelphia Story; 11, Arsenic and Old Lace; 12, The Hasty Heart; 13, Home of the Brave; 14, Tomorrow The World; 15, Watch On The Rhine; 16, The Patriots; and 17, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Strong copy despite flaws.

Seller Inventory # 019612

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BEST PLAYS OF THE MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE : SECOND SERIES
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology
  • History
  • Literature, Literary Criticism