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  First Edition of The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and Democracy and Esther; Inscribed by Romulus Linney to Director Alan Schneider

  LINNEY, Romulus [Alan Schneider].

  The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and Democracy and Esther: Two Plays

  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

  First edition of this collection of two plays by Romulus Linney. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Alan Schneider with many thanks and best wishes, Romulus Linney, New York, April 1973.” The recipient, Alan Schneider, was among the foremost American directors of his generation and the great champion of the postwar stage in the United States: he directed the American premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1956 and remained Beckett’s preferred American director, staged the United States premieres of Pinter’s plays from the 1962 off-Broadway double bill of The Dumb Waiter and The Collection through the Broadway premiere of The Birthday Party in 1967, and won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Direction for the original production of Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.

  Price: $650.00     Item Number: 152218

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