A Texas Trilogy.
JONES, Preston. [Alan Schneider].
A Texas Trilogy.
First Edition of Preston Jones’s A Texas Trilogy; From the Library of Alan Schneider, Director of the Broadway Premiere
New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.
$1,600.00
In Stock
Item Number: 152186
First edition of Jones’s celebrated trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of the director Alan Schneider with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Alan Schneider directed the original play adaptation of A Texas Trilogy, staging its triumphant engagement at the Kennedy Center in the spring of 1976 and its Broadway premiere at the Broadhurst Theatre that September. 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? Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A desirable copy from the library of the trilogy’s original director.
A Texas Trilogy — The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, and The Oldest Living Graduate — established Preston Jones as the great dramatist of small-town Texas life. Premiered at the Dallas Theater Center, the three plays moved to the Kennedy Center in 1976, where they became the sensation of the Bicentennial season, before opening on Broadway that September. Jones died in 1979 at the age of forty-three, leaving the trilogy as his enduring monument.
