BIB_ID
87486
Accession number
MA 8548
Creator
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.
Display Date
New York, New York?, 1965?
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (81 pages), bound ; 29.6 x 23.2 cm
Notes
A mimeograph copy of a playscript for the three-act play by James Baldwin. The play was published in 1954, and its first performance was by the Howard Players at Howard University, May 11-14, 1955. This was followed by a Broadway production at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opening on April 15, 1965.
Stamped in black on title page: "Ford Foundation Program for Playwrights / 130 West 56th Street / New York 19, N.Y."
Typed on title page: "Return to: / Sidney Bernstein / 24 West 8th Street / New York 11, N.Y."
Library's copy has pages 25 and 26 swapped.
Annotated with dialogue corrections in pencil by Baldwin on verso of page 41.
Stamped in black on title page: "Ford Foundation Program for Playwrights / 130 West 56th Street / New York 19, N.Y."
Typed on title page: "Return to: / Sidney Bernstein / 24 West 8th Street / New York 11, N.Y."
Library's copy has pages 25 and 26 swapped.
Annotated with dialogue corrections in pencil by Baldwin on verso of page 41.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Orange cloth drop-spine box (31 cm)
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