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A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection

Lucy Barton, Kenneth Tynan

Paul Newman's Copy of He That Plays the King & Historic Costume for the Stage Signed by Joanne Woodward

Walter H. Baker Co. and Longmans, Green and Co.

1935 - 1950

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A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection

Finely bound set of Barton and Tynan's Historic Costume for the Stage and He That Plays the King.

  • Sold as a set of 2.


Lucy Barton (American).

Illustrated by Davis Sarvis (American).

Historic Costume for the Stage.

Boston: Walter H. Baker Co., 1935.

605 pages.

First printing.

Signed indecipherably.

Hardbound in green linen with gilt stamp.


Kenneth Tynan (British).

Introduction by Orson Welles (American).

He That Plays the King: A View of the Theatre.

London: The Collector's Book Club and Longmans, Green and Co., 1950.

256 pages.

Octavo.


Limited edition de luxe of 50 copies, this being number 42 of 50 signed by Tynan on the limitation page for members of The Collector's Book Club.

Inscribed Christmas 1959, to P.L, the greatest director of them all! I Love You, Your Wife.

Bound in one-quarter tan morocco with raised bands, gilt letters, marbled boards and top edge gilt.

Condition Report

Revive
Fair
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Like New

Tight binding.

Wear consistent with age and use.

Dimensions

Historic Costume for the Stage

Height: 10.25 inches / 26.04 cm

Width: 7.5 inches / 19.05 cm

Depth: 1.5 inches / 3.81 cm


He That Plays the King

Height: 9.75 inches / 24.77 cm

Width: 5.75 inches / 14.61 cm

Depth: .63 inches / 1.60 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Costume, History, Plays, Modern first editions

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