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  First Edition of The Gingham Dog; Inscribed by Lanford Wilson to Alan Schneider, Director of the Original Broadway Production

  WILSON, Lanford [Alan Schneider].

  The Gingham Dog.

  New York: Hill & Wang, 1969.

  First edition of the play that marked Lanford Wilson's Broadway debut. Octavo, original publisher's black cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page to the director Alan Schneider, "To Alan, in thanks and appreciation for a great job on this play - and for an experience which was easy and fun and rewarding (a great deal more than I had hoped for my Broadway trip). It's great, also, just to know wonderful people working in the theater. Also, of course, to my girl, Eugenia - Lanford. 11/13/69." The recipient, Alan Schneider, directed the original Broadway production of The Gingham Dog at the John Golden Theatre in 1969, the playwright's Broadway debut. 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 Afr...

  Price: $1,600.00     Item Number: 152237

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