Street Scene: an American Opera Based on Elmer Rice's Play

by Performance, Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice, Langston Hughes, music

$3,500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Chappell & Co., Inc, 1948 . First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on title page: For Joe Littau, a merry Christmas and thanks for a beautiful job!, signed Kurt Weill , undated but annotated in pencil, presumably by Littau: Xmas, 1948. Quarto 30cm . Original buff wrappers, printed in red on front cover; 274pp. Professional paper repairs at spine ends; expected tanning to

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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