My Fifty Years in The Theatre

Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (with no statement as is correct). Grass green cloth. 157 pp. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, "For Dr. ____/ Owen Davis". Memoirs of the theatre--the plays, players, theatrical managers and the theatre iteslf--of the 50 years between 1897 and 1947. Generall fine, very slight fade to the spine strip. No dust jacket. American dramatist Owen Davis (d.1956) began his career writing lively sketches of the New York tenderloin district for publications such a s"Police Gazette in the early part of the 20th century. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Icebound". He collaborated with such literary figures as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Pearl Buck. Near Fine. Item #E8124G

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