Old Acquaintance by JOHN VAN DRUTEN - 1941

NY. Fair with no dust jacket; Cloth; Random House; 1941. Red cloth, fair. Fraying to spine, staining, hinges cracked. Previous owner name. A Comedy in Three Acts, black & white photographs thru out. 181 pages. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .

Random House, 1941. Hardcover. Good. 1941. No edition remarks. 181 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Contains ex-libris plate. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Boards are mildly warped.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth, paper label to spine. First UK edition. Crown and edge bumped, covers mottled, slight foxing, rear hinge cracked. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, lightly toned/stained/edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Random House, 1941. Hardcover. 181p., frontispiece, original cast, scenes, illustrated with 3 b&w production photos, offsetting to endpapers, non-authorial gift inscription else very good first edition in red cloth boards and unclipped, worn and chipped dust jacket, original $2.00 price on flap. Basis of the Cukor film starring Bette Davis and Gig Young. Classic American comedy.

New York: Samuel French Ltd, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 128 pages; VG-/Missing DJ; reddish brown spine with black lettering; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the exterior of the book; marked soiling to the exterior with significant soiling and tanning to the spine; marked creasing and fraying to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine; marked bumping to the corners of the boards, particularly the bottoms; fraying to the cloth on the corners of the boards; minor bumping to the tail of the spine; spine is slightly cocked; top edge of the text block is dyed dark gray; marked soiling to the edges of the text block; minor soiling and age-toning to the front and back paste downs and free endpapers; 2.5 inch long black stamp from previous owner to the front paste down; bookplate from previous owner to the ffep; signed flat by van Druten on ffep; marked creasing to the back paste down/verso bfep along the gutter; shelved in Plays. 1357838. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York, Random House [1941]., 1941. First edition. 8vo. 3 b/w halftones from the stage production by Lucas and Monroe Studio. Dust jacket (unclipped; long tear; small stain on foredge). Very good. 181 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Basis of the 1981 MGM production "Rich and Famous", directed by George Cukor (his last film), starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset. Also basis of the 1943 film "Old Acquaintance", directed by Vincent Sherman, starring Bette Davis. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.