Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts

New York: Samuel French, 1927.

Price: $1,200.00

Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Barrett H. Clark. Fine in an attractive example of the fragile dustwrapper with a chip at the bottom of the front panel affecting a couple of words on the front panel. Signed by the author on the title page. Riggs, of Cherokee descent, was the first Native-American writer to achieve widespread success as a playwright. This was his first published play, making this almost certainly the first published play by an author of Native-American descent (long predating the works of Hanay Geiogamah and others). His play *Green Grow the Lilacs* was later adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein into their first collaboration, the musical play and subsequent film *Oklahoma!* A very uncommon title.

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Item #348568 Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts. Lynn RIGGS.
Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts
Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts
Big Lake: A Tragedy in Two Parts