Lot 184
  • 184

Albee, Edward

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • All Over. [N.p., c. 1971]
  • paper, ink
79 pp (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 279 x 216 mm) multigraphed play script (versos only). Bound with clasps into stiff blue paper wrappers with title and author's name embossed on upper cover; wrappers with some wear and creasing. 

Provenance

Millicent Osborn (signed by her on the title-page)

Condition

Condition a described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SCRIPT OF ALBEE'S PLAY ALL OVER, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN RED INK TO ACTRESS AND WRITER MILLICENT OSBORN, "with love, Edward".

All Over opened on Broadway in March 1971, directed by John Gielgud and starring Jessica Tandy, Colleen Dewhurst, and Madeline Sherwood. The following year, it was directed by Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company.