New York: Samuel French, 1931.
Price: $275.00
Hardcover. First edition. Slight nicking at the crown, very good or better in very good dustwrapper with some moderate overall soiling and short tears. Considered one of the best dramas about lawyers ever conceived, the original Broadway production ran for 232 performances with Paul Muni in the lead. Muni resumed the role for 104 performances in a 1932 revival, and again for another 258 performances in 1942. In 1933 William Wyler directed the film with John Barrymore in the Muni role, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, and Melvyn Douglas. Rice's previous play, *Street Scene*, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. Scarce in this condition.
Item #380826
Elmer Rice
birth name: Elmer Reizenstein
born: 9/28/1892
died: 5/8/1967