[Rarebooks] FS: Vincent Price's Copy Inscribed by Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, etc.

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Wed Dec 7 12:20:55 EST 2005


HELLMAN, Lillian (PARKER, Dorothy) (PRICE, Vincent). WATCH ON  THE
RHINE.  A PLAY IN THREE ACTS. Actor Vincent Price's Copy Inscribed  to
him  by  Hellman,  Parker, and others. New York:  Privately  Published
1942.  First Edition. Folio (9" x 12-1/8") bound in original pictorial
red  boards with a black cloth spine. Copy #125 of 349 numbered copies
of    this  special  edition,  with   proceeds  going  to  the   Joint
Anti-Fascist    Refugee  Committee.  Foreword   by   Dorothy   Parker.
Illustrations  by Rockwell Kent, Fritz Eichenberg, Don Freeman, Donald
Gelb,    William  Gropper,  Benjamin   Kopman,  Hans   Mueller,   Luis
Quintanilla,  Philip Reisman, William Sharp, and Lawrence Beall Smith.
This  is  actor  Vincent Price's copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED to  him  by
several  of  the  contributors in ink and  pencil  including  Hellman,
Gropper,  Gelb,  Smith,  Herman Shumlin (who produced  this  play  and
others  by  Hellman  on Broadway), and  Parker  ("with  gratitude--and
complete--").   The  Joint  Anti-Fascist   Refugee  Committee  was  an
organization  dedicated  to aiding Spanish refugees and  lobbying  the
U.S.  leadership  on  behalf  of the  deposed  Republican  government.
Lacking slipcase. Mild fading to spine. About Fine            $2500.00

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