Buy this book on-line WILLIAM ARCHIBALD : The Innocents. A New Play Based on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. With drawings by the authorCoward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1950
First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 144pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped decoration to the upper board. With a frontispiece drawing and two further black and white drawings introducing each act. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and the free endpapers very slightly toned and marked. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked with a small area of loss from the head of the rear panel-spine panel, and with several further tiny slivers of edge- or enclosed loss, a touch of chafing to the natural folds, and a little toning to the rear panel. The author's uncommon first play, which opened on Broadway in 1950 and was memorably filmed by Jack Clayton in 1961 (Archibald co-wrote the screenplay with Truman Capote, winning an Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for his efforts).. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WILLIAM ARCHIBALD : The Innocents. A New Play Based on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. With drawings by the author. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, collectables, first editions, livres anciens and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |