Damon. Guys and Dolls.

by RUNYON

£15,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Advance copy in unique binding RUNYON, Damon. Guys and Dolls. New York: Frederick A. Stokes . 1931. 8vo. Original limp cover with pictorial dust jacket pasted on at spine; "Pub'n Date Aug 20 1931" stamped on preliminary blank; Housed within red quarter morocco publishers folding box with five raised panels to spine; title plus "First Edition" lettered in gilt to spine; pp. [8], ix-xxii, [2], 3-313, [3]; dust jacket slightly soiled and spine chipped at head and foot; minor indents to text block and extremities demonstrating some minor loss; a little creasing to reverse endpapers and dust jacket; otherwise very good copy of a scarce edition. Advance Proof Copy of Damon Runyon's classic. We have been unable to locate any other example of this binding variant. There are other examples of advance copies in a traditional cloth binding with the dust wrapper while the first softback edition has a completely different design, making this an extremely scarce publishing anomaly. Guys and Dolls is a collection of thirteen short stories written by the legendary Damon Runyon, who, as the front flap asserts, "knows more of Broadway, and of sporting life, and of the underworld, than any other writing man alive". The theatrical adaptation of Guys and Dolls is considered one of the most successful Broadway musicals ever in production. The play first premiered in 1950 where it won the Tony Award and was subsequently transformed into a film starring Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. The musical i

• Binding: Hardcover

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