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OF MICE AND MEN, SIGNED BY BROADWAY CAST, PLUS COPIES OF VARIOUS PLAYBILLS FROM STEINBECK'S LIBRARY. 1. STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Of Mice and Men: A Play in 3 Acts. New York: Covici Friede, 1937.
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OF MICE AND MEN, SIGNED BY BROADWAY CAST, PLUS COPIES OF VARIOUS PLAYBILLS FROM STEINBECK'S LIBRARY.
1. STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Of Mice and Men: A Play in 3 Acts. New York: Covici Friede, 1937.
8vo. Publisher's beige cloth printed in black and red, top edge blue, dust jacket. Some darkening to pastedowns, dustsoiling to edges; jacket with minor rubbing at head and tail of spine.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE BROADWAY CAST MEMBERS on the cast list page: WALLACE FORD as George; BRODERICK CRAWFORD as Lenny; JOHN HAMILTON, THOMAS FINDLAY, SAM BYRD, CLAIRE LUCE, H. ALBERT SMITH (signing on Will Geer's line); CHARLES SLATTERY, WALTER BALDWIN LEIGH WHIPPER, and director GEORGE S. KAUFMAN. The Broadway adaptation of Of Mice and Men ran at the Music Box Theater from November 23, 1937 to May of 1938. The IBDB lists H. Albert Smith as Will Geer's replacement, so this was signed sometime after the original opening.
2. Of Mice and Men. San Francisco: San Francisco Theatre Union, July 1937. 8vo. Printed playbill, 4 pp. Some creasing, toning, and thumbing. Both leaves with John Steinbeck blindstamp to upper margins. Of Mice and Men was first staged in San Francisco before transferring to Broadway in November of the same year. This cast list mentions that Candy's dog is played by "Lady."
3. The Playgoer: The Magazine in the Theatre / Official Program of the Geary Theater. San Francisco: L. Frentrup Co., beginning April 24, 1939. 8vo. 31 pp. Printed wrappers. With broadside for Kiss the Boys Goodbye laid in. WITH: Another copy.
Provenance: These three theater programs are likely part of the "incunabula" that Steinbeck sent to Dave Heyler in the mid-1950s (Steinbeck to Heyler, November 19, 1956).
Of Mice and Men was selected as Best Play of 1938 by the New York Drama Critic's Circle. Goldstone & Payne A8a.
8vo. Publisher's beige cloth printed in black and red, top edge blue, dust jacket. Some darkening to pastedowns, dustsoiling to edges; jacket with minor rubbing at head and tail of spine.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE BROADWAY CAST MEMBERS on the cast list page: WALLACE FORD as George; BRODERICK CRAWFORD as Lenny; JOHN HAMILTON, THOMAS FINDLAY, SAM BYRD, CLAIRE LUCE, H. ALBERT SMITH (signing on Will Geer's line); CHARLES SLATTERY, WALTER BALDWIN LEIGH WHIPPER, and director GEORGE S. KAUFMAN. The Broadway adaptation of Of Mice and Men ran at the Music Box Theater from November 23, 1937 to May of 1938. The IBDB lists H. Albert Smith as Will Geer's replacement, so this was signed sometime after the original opening.
2. Of Mice and Men. San Francisco: San Francisco Theatre Union, July 1937. 8vo. Printed playbill, 4 pp. Some creasing, toning, and thumbing. Both leaves with John Steinbeck blindstamp to upper margins. Of Mice and Men was first staged in San Francisco before transferring to Broadway in November of the same year. This cast list mentions that Candy's dog is played by "Lady."
3. The Playgoer: The Magazine in the Theatre / Official Program of the Geary Theater. San Francisco: L. Frentrup Co., beginning April 24, 1939. 8vo. 31 pp. Printed wrappers. With broadside for Kiss the Boys Goodbye laid in. WITH: Another copy.
Provenance: These three theater programs are likely part of the "incunabula" that Steinbeck sent to Dave Heyler in the mid-1950s (Steinbeck to Heyler, November 19, 1956).
Of Mice and Men was selected as Best Play of 1938 by the New York Drama Critic's Circle. Goldstone & Payne A8a.