The Subway: A Play in Nine Scenes

New York: Samuel French, 1929.

Price: $225.00

Hardcover. First edition. A small and faint stain on the foredge else fine in fine dustwrapper with the price blacked out on the front panel. A play about the humanistic aspirations of a young girl suppressed by the cold mechanistic society, as symbolized by the subway. The original, and only, Broadway production ran for 35 performances and featured Jane Hamilton in the lead. A very nice copy.

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Item #75753 The Subway: A Play in Nine Scenes. Elmer L. RICE.

Elmer Rice
birth name: Elmer Reizenstein
born: 9/28/1892
died: 5/8/1967

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American playwright, director, and novelist noted for his innovative and polemical plays. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore