Emmet Sherwood Robert

La forêt pétrifiée (L'Arbalète n°11)

Marc Barbezat, 1946. 1946. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 314 pages. Couverture contrepliée à trois rabats. Coins frottés. Couverture jaunie. Certaines pages non coupées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne. .

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Catalogue: LETTRES

SHERWOOD, ROBERT EMMET

Abe Lincoln in Illinois: A Play in Twelve Scenes

New York and London, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1939. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. The plastic protected jacket is marked and worn, with a few nicks to the edges. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Minor foxing and tanning on the pastedowns and endpapers. A few instances of minor pencil marks on the rough cut pages. The binding is sound; text is clear. CM. Good.

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Book number: 480002

Catalogue: Performing Arts/Film

SHERWOOD, Robert Emmet

Abe Lincoln in Illinois: A Play in Twelve Scenes

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 250pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket quite age toned and edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips -- but complete and overall quite presentable. A tight and quite attractive early printing of this Pulitzer Prize winner by the American playwright and screenwriter (1896-1955). Pages vii-viii list the original stage cast from the Playwrights' Company production of 1938, with of course Raymond Massey leading the way as Lincoln -- which leads to this copy's fun autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is an Autograph Note Signed by the third and last wife of Massey, Dorothy Whitney Massey (1902-82). 1p, 6" X 7", New York, NY, 13 December 1939. Addressed to Arnold Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln scholar). Near fine. Single original horizontal fold. On "Raymond Massey" letterhead, she notes: "Mr. Massey has asked me to thank you for your kind letter, and for sending him a copy of 'Amberglow.' He hopes that you will enjoy Mr. Sherwood's fine play," boldly penned in black ink and signed by the brand-new Mrs. Massey. Here's the fun part: When Massey and his second wife, actress Adrienne Allen, divorced early in 1939, they used husband-and-wife attorneys Whitney and Dorothy Whitney. The Whitney's then divorced and, within two weeks in July, Massey married Dorothy Whitney and Adrienne Allen married William Whitney! If this plot sounds familiar, that's because Massey's friend Ruth Gordon joined with Garson Kanin and used this as the basis for their script "Adam's Rib," filmed in 1949 with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Canadian-born Raymond Massey (1896-1983) excelled at portraying American historical figures in films, and is justly regarded for his portrayal of the 16th president; a film version of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" was released in 1940 and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Laid into this copy is a 3¼" X 8½" stiff green promotional leaflet for the December 12th, 1939 showing of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in Cleveland -- the very performance attended by Arnold Gates that prompted him to write Massey and give him a copy of his just-published booklet mentioned by Dorothy Massey in her letter, "Amberglow of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge. .

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Book number: 47885

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Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Drama

Sherwood, Robert Emmet,

Idiot's Delight.

NY, Scribner, 1936. 1st ed. G. Maroon binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS048429I

Catalogue: Theatre

SHERWOOD, ROBERT EMMET

The Petrified Forest

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1935, First Edition. Hardcover. Used, Hardcover - first edition, with 'A' on publisher's page. Very good in good, unclipped ($2.00) jacket. Cast list from original production precedes half-title, listing Leslie Howard as Alan Squier and Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee (photo of Howard on front of jacket). Jacket is a little scuffed and worn, with a few minor nicks; marked on underside; now mylar-protected. Faint wear to boards beneath; page block lightly tanned. One or two minor imperfections within; pages appear clean and content is clear. TS. Very Good.

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Book number: 606279

Catalogue: Performing Arts/Film

SHERWOOD, Robert Emmet

The Queen's Husband

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth. xix, 190pp. Near fine. Tight, attractive first edition. .

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Book number: 11020

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: American Literature