Record ID:
87486
Accession number:
MA 8548
Created:
New York, New York?, 1965?
Credit:
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.
Housed in:
Orange cloth drop-spine box (31 cm)
Binding:
Yellow paper wrappers, front cover reads "The Amen Corner by James Baldwin" in an unidentified hand.
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
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