The Ladies of the Corridor (First Edition, inscribed by Dorothy Parker)
by Dorothy Parker, Arnaud D'Usseau
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
A pitch-black, two-act satire first performed in New York on October 21, 1953 at the Longacre Theatre, under the direction of Harold Clurman.
Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a few tiny pinholes on the bottom right corner of the front panel, and a lightly faded spine panel.
Synopsis
The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of Literature ?s leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor , a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel. Loosely based on Parker?s life, and co-written with famed Hollywood playwright Arnaud d?Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor exposes the limitations of a woman?s life in a drama teeming with Parker?s signature wit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158718
- Title
- The Ladies of the Corridor (First Edition, inscribed by Dorothy Parker)
- Author
- Dorothy Parker, Arnaud D'Usseau
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Theatre | Humor | Persons of Interest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Theatre;
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- First Edition
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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