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Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Dark-blue cloth with gold-color lettering on spine, sewn-in blue ribbon bookmark, 911 pp., housed in cream-color slipcase with gold-color lettering. Book and slipcase in excellent condition.

GLORIOUS: WITTY: FARCICAL: INGENIOUS: EXUBERANT: PANACHE: BELOVED: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (Orig. 2004) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ LOA logo at center & double-ruled borders gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW blue silk-finish Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-blue LOA patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.00" x 8.12" x 1.22", 0.57 kg, 911 pp. Slipcase: 5.34" x 8.50" x 1.46", 0.66 kg * CONTENTS: George S. Kaufman & Company: Broadway Comedies: The Royal Family (1), Animal Crackers (109), June Moon (195), Once in a Lifetime (273), Of Thee I Sing (396), Dinner at Eight (469), Stage Door (591), You Can't Take It With You (687), The Man Who Came to Dinner (763); Kaufman Chronology (849), Biographical Notes (869), Note on the Texts (874), Copyrights & Acknowledgments (880), Notes (881) * ABOUT THE BOOK: If Eugene O'Neill represents the tragic mask of American drama, then George S. Kaufman can easily lay claim to its smiling counterpart. No other comic dramatist in America has enjoyed more popular success & perennial influence or been more fortunate in his choice of collaborators, who included George & Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart, Irving Berlin, & the Marx Brothers. Here, in the most comprehensive collection of his plays ever assembled, are 9 classics: his uproarious "backstage" play "The Royal Family" (1927, written with Edna Ferber); the Marx Brothers-inspired mayhem of "Animal Crackers" (1928, w/ Morrie Ryskind) in a version discovered in Groucho Marx's papers & published here for the first time; "June Moon" (1929, w/ Ring Lardner), a hilarious look at a young composer trying to make it big on Tin Pan Alley; "Once in a Lifetime" (1930, w/ Moss Hart), one of the first & best satires of Hollywood; Pulitzer Prize winners "Of Thee I Sing" (1931, w/ Morrie Ryskind & Ira Gershwin) & "You Can't Take It with You" (1936, w/ Moss Hart); "Dinner at Eight" (1932, w/ Edna Ferber), a tart ensemble piece that mixes comedy & melodrama; "Stage Door" (1936, w/ Edna Ferber), his much-loved story about young actresses trying to make it big in New York City; & "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939, w/ Moss Hart), an unforgettable burlesque of America's cult of celebrity. Bursting with vernacular wit, farcical ingenuity, & theatrical panache, these plays have remained beloved favorites & exuberant reminders of Broadway in its glory days. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Laurence Maslon is an associate arts professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts & a former associate artistic director at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He was senior consultant & co-writer for 2 episodes of the 6-part PBS series "Broadway: The American Musical" as well as coauthoring w/ Michael Kantor the companion volume for the documentary. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).

Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. 1st ed. 207pp., plus frontispiece. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Corners bumped and with very slight fading to spine. Text clean.

. . . . First edition, with publisher's colophon on copyright page 8vo, hardcover. No dj, blue cloth. Vg condition. Spine ends very slightly nicked. Spine title faded, title still legible. Covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy, square and tight. 207 pp., frontis. illustration of the play's cast, from the play's Act III. American, Comedy, History, Stage, Theater, Theatre,

First Printing of the Books, Inc. Edition, 1945. Small hardcover. No DJ. General wear to cover edges/corners. Spine title print is rubbed. Top corner of the front endpaper has an indentation from a previous pricing. Content pages are clean and unmarked. 207 pages.

First edition. Close to near fine in a good only un-clipped dust jacket. (Spine sunned and chipped at both ends. Short edge tears & shallow chipping at edges of jacket. ) From the library of Hollywood screenwriter Allen Rivkin with a pencilled "With all respect...and signature" in an unknown hand at head of front end-paper. Pulitzer Prize winner for Best Drama on Broadway. Filmed by Frank Capra in 1938.; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 207 pages.

First edition. 207 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel that's a little chipped at ends, small scratch in front panel, Very Good. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play that formed the basis for the 1938 Capra blockbuster.

First edition. Close to near fine in a good only un-clipped dust jacket. (Spine sunned and chipped at both ends. Short edge tears & shallow chipping at edges of jacket. ) From the library of Hollywood screenwriter Allen Rivkin with a pencilled "With all respect...and signature" in an unknown hand at head of front end-paper. Pulitzer Prize winner for Best Drama on Broadway. Filmed by Frank Capra in 1938.; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 207 pages.

First edition. 207 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel that's a little chipped at ends, small scratch in front panel, Very Good. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play that formed the basis for the 1938 Capra blockbuster.