Between the Covers

Hardcover. First American edition. Quarto. Red cloth gilt. Light ownership stamp of the Tamara Daykarhanova's School for the Stage in New York City, fine, lacking the presumed dustwrapper. This copy is Inscribed on the half-title to Daykarhanova by the entire Class of October, 1936 (all three members), which included Horton Foote: "For (word obscured) for the stage with love and gratitude. The Class of October Nineteen hundred and thirty-six. Jane Rose Price, Horton Foote, Dorothy Vernon Smith McFarland." Daykarhanova was a Russian émigré who trained with Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. Foote trained with her in the mid-1930s, and went on to win Academy Awards for his screenplays for *To Kill A Mockingbird* and *Tender Mercies*. An interesting piece of Horton Foote "juvenilia."

Item #80398