This is New York
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small crease on front fly, spine lettering dull, and most wear at the spine ends about very good lacking the dustwrapper. A play about a Senator from South Dakota who comes to the big city and gets tangled up in its many intrigues. Sherwood won three Pulitzer Prizes for his plays, this wasn't one of them. With the bookplate of actress Ruth Gordon and her husband the director and writer Garson Kanin.
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Robert E. Sherwood
birth name: Robert Emit Sherwood
born: 4/4/1896
died: 11/14/1955
Biography
American playwright whose works reflect involvement in human problems, both social and political. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature He was also a speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt.more