[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed to Vincent Price by Lilliam Hellman, Dorothy Parker, William Gropper, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

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HELLMAN, Lillian (PARKER, Dorothy). WATCH ON THE RHINE. A PLAY IN
THREE  ACTS  Inscribed to actor Vincent Price 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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