clifford odets introduction harold clurman (4 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. The contents encompass the playwright's six best and most famous plays: 'Awake and Sing', 'Till the Day I Die', 'Paradise Lost', 'Golden Boy', and 'Rocket to the Moon'. 418p. Pap.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 12mo. volume bound in blue cloth. Condition: endpapers slightly toned; else very good. Pages: xvi, 237.

mass market paperback. Etat : acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 418 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine starting to slant; some foxing to edges; some tanning; small tear fore edge front cover; scuff to face cover and slight crease; tips bumped and chip; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. 1st Edition. First Edition ( 'First Published, March, 1935' ). This book was previously owned by the renowned sociologist Daniel Bell. Owned when he was a very young man and was acting in the play. On the front end paper is penned 'For performance in the Theatron production of Awake and Sing, Daniel Bell as Jacob'. At the top corner of this page is Bell's signature and across the way off the top edge of the front inside cover he wrote 'Property of Daniel Bell'. He also penciled a good deal on the pages, almost all of it putting squares around dialogue with the word 'omit' next to the chosen sections. I guess they were doing a shortened version of the play, perhaps a college production. The original presentation of the play by the Group Theatre was at the Belasco Theatre on February 19, 1935. This is the book of that play. Jacob was played by Morris Carnovsky. The cast also included Stella Adler and Jules Garfield before he changed his name to John Garfield. Garfield was a good friend of Clifford Odets. The production was directed by Harold Clurman who wrote the Introduction to this book. You can see the covers of the book in the photos. There is a slightly darkened area off the front bottom edge just adjacent to the spine. The spine has a few spots. The lettering on the spine is still bright. There is a thin tear off the bottom edge of the spine at the juncture between the spine and the rear cover. There is also a little wear at the top edge of the spine. There are three thin spots along the rear middle edge where there is rub-through. The other edges are all free of any rubbing. That's also the case for the cover corners, no rubbing. The spine has a very clear forward lean and the page edges are level with (and jut out a little in one place) the cover edges which wouldn't usually be the case. The juncture between the front inside cover and front end paper is in very good shape as is the juncture between the rear cover and rear inside end paper. However, there is a crack with webbing showing at the juncture between the blank side of the half-title page and the title page. Nevertheless, both pages are tightly bound from top to bottom. The rest of the pages are nicely, tightly bound. There are two instances where there is a thin space at the juncture between facing pages. These four pages are tightly bound from top to bottom. In the main, the pages are clean. I did find half-dozen or so instances of small stains. I also found a large stain in the same place and shape on two facing pages. The stains do not interfere with one's ability to read the dialogue. I found one placeholder crease. I didn't notice any other creasing. There are no markings (as in stampings) anywhere in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And Dr. Bell's penciling and signatures represent the only writing. I may have the only dust jacket on this book but it's in poor shape. On the positive side it's pretty clean. On the negative side its parts are detached and the rear cover and part of the spine is missing. So less than ideal condition overall, but probably the most unique of any of the books that came out of Daniel Bell's personal library. Daniel Bell is not best known for his acting in this play. He is best known for his 'contributions to post-industrialism. His most influential books are The End of Ideology, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. Two of these, the End of Ideology and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism were listed by the Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 most important books in the second half of the twentieth century. Besides Bell only Isaiah Berlin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Camus, George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, had two books so listed.'.