Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First Edition (Stated). Book Condition: Fine.  Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in archival protective cover.  Dust Jacket Design By H. Lawrence Hoffman (illustrator). First printing of the Harcourt hardcover edition. First collection of plays. xi, 266pp. Burnt orange quarter-cloth, black paper boards, black ink silver gilt spine lettering and front cover design. Dust jacket price $3.95. Signed by Horton Foote on the title page. "Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film 'To Kill a Mockingbird'and the 1983 film 'Tender Mercies', and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play 'The Young Man From Atlanta'. In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In describing his 3-play work, "The Orphans' Home Cycle", the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal said this: "Foote, who died last March, left behind a masterpiece, one that will rank high among the signal achievements of American theater in the 20th century." In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts." - wikipedia."A Young Lady of Property," "John Turner Davis," "The Tears of My Sister," "The Death of the Old Man," "Expectant Relations," "The Midnight Caller," "The Dancers," and "The Trip to Bountiful." Preface by the author. List of the players in the original productions.Eight plays by the Texas author, all set in an imaginary town on the Gulf Coast, all written and produced for the television programs Philco-Goodyear Playhouse and Gulf Playhouse between January 1953 and March 1954. "The Trip to Bountiful," which numbered among its original cast Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint was later staged on Broadway, and still later adapted into the 1985 film for which Geraldine Page won an Oscar.