ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS

by Robert Sherwood, Jo Mielziner

$575 · Offered by Johnnycake Books · No longer available

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Ownership copy of stage designer Jo Mielziner, with his signature upper right corner dated 1938 of the ffe. ABE LINCOLN was the first production of The Playwrights' Company formed in 1938 by Sherwood along with fellow playwrights Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, and Kurt Weill, for which Mielziner designed the set. Laid-in is a TLS on The Playwrights' Company letterhead, dated July 16, 1949, from Sherwood to Mielziner

• Binding: Hardcover

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