Benet, Stephen Vincent

John Brown's Body (with theatre production wrap-around band)

New York: Rinehart & Co., (1953). Hardcover. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 336 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Present is the very scarce wrap-around band featuring photographs of the actors (Anderson, Powers and Massey as well as director Laughton) This edition (the 38th printing of Benet's Pulitzer Prize winning narrative poem from the 1920s), was published to coincide with the Broadway dramatic reading production (1953) that was directed by Charles Laughton and starred Tyrone Power, Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey. Fine / very good. Item #E16601

Price: $20.00