Click here to see our other books!
US Buyers Please Note - The new tariffs do not affect books!
The Male Animal: A Play
James Thurber; Elliott Nugent
1940
Random House : New York
8" by 5.5"
202 pp.
SUMMARY
The first edition, first impression of Thurber and Nugent’s Broadway campus comedy, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper and illustrated throughout with Thurber’s vignettes.
First Edition,Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 15.99
EU Postage: £ 13.99
European Postage: £ 14.99
Asia Postage: £ 18.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 19.99
DESCRIPTION
In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Complete with the publisher’s original dust wrapper, price unclipped; the flap corners have been slightly trimmed.
First edition, first printing. Published in the same year as the original Broadway production, which opened at the Cort Theatre, New York, on 9 January 1940 and ran until 3 August 1940.
Illustrated with a monochrome photographic frontispiece, one further photographic plate, and numerous in-text vignettes by James Thurber. Collated, complete.
A three-act campus comedy centred on Tommy Turner, an English professor at a football-obsessed Midwestern university, who faces dismissal and accusations of radicalism after intending to read Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s anarchist statement to his class.
From the theatrical collection of Clive Hirschhorn, theatre critic for the Sunday Express from 1966 to 1993. Known for his witty and thorough reviews, features and interviews, Hirschhorn also authored several works on the film industry, including his critically acclaimed biographies of Hollywood stars, Gene Kelly and James Mason.
A renowned book collector, the majority of works from Hirschhorn’s incredible library of theatre-related material have a characteristic pencil inscription with his date of acquisition to the upper corner of the paste down.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Light spotting to joints. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper, very smart. Price unclipped; the flap corners have been slightly trimmed. Light browning to perimeters. One or two small chips, closed tears, and creases to extremities. One or two light spots and handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge.
Overall Condition: Very Good Indeed Very Good Indeed
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
GUARANTEE
We offer a full money back guarantee on our descriptions.
Please ask for details and conditions. We prefer PAYPAL.
If you pay via PAYPAL we will post the item off the same or the next working day with the postage you have selected.
Please note we cannot accept USD cheques