[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity

New York: Play Bureau. Federal Theatre Project / Bureau of Research and Publication, Federal Theatre Project for New York, (1936).

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Softcover. Playscript and accompanying music. Two volumes. The script is quarto. Mimeographed leaves printed rectos only in stapled printed Play Bureau wrappers. 36, 43pp., [2] leaves. A couple of small grease pencil marks on front cover, top corner bumped, small tears on the yapped edges of the wrappers, but sound and very good or better. The accompanying music is volume is: Octavo. 14pp., unbound signatures. Slight stains on front wrap, near fine. An adaptation of the first American comic opera with music and lyrics separately published. *OCLC* results are, predictably perhaps, confusing about this play. It appears that they locate about a half dozen copies of the script, and perhaps three or four copies of the music.

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Item #435445 [Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity. Andrew BARTON, Ben Russak.
[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity
[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity
[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity
[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity
[Playscript]: The First Comic Opera in America: The Disappointment or the Force of Credulity a New American Comic Opera... Printed in the Year MDCCLXVII (1767) [with]: Music and Lyrics of The Disappointment or The Force of Credulity