Crucible by Miller Arthur, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur Miller on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some expert restoration. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Uncommon signed. The Crucible has been adapted for film, television, and opera. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem, and later Miller himself adapted the play as the 1996 film The Crucible. The latter including in its cast Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, and it earned Miller his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. On television, the play has aired in 1968 and 2006. Finally, the play was adapted by composer Robert Ward into an opera in 1961, for which it received the Pulitzer Prize.

First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Arthur Miller on a page bound in. In fine condition. The Crucible has been adapted for film, television, and opera. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem, and later Miller himself adapted the play as the 1996 film The Crucible. The latter including in its cast Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, and it earned Miller his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. On television, the play has aired in 1968 and 2006. Finally, the play was adapted by composer Robert Ward into an opera in 1961, for which it received the Pulitzer Prize.

First edition of Miller's Tony Award-winning play, a bitter satire inspired by the heightened political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals during the McCarthy era. Octavo, original half cloth over patterned boards, top edge red. Association copy, inscribed by Arthur Miller on the front free endpaper to his mother and father, "To Mother & Dad With my love Arthur." Arthur Miller was the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. His father was born in RadomyÅl Wielki, Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now Poland), and his mother was a native of New York whose parents had immigrated from the same town. Miller's father, Isidore, owned a women's clothing manufacturing business which employed over 400 people and the family lived on West 110th Street in Manhattan, owned a summer house in Far Rockaway, Queens, and employed a chauffeur. In the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Millers lost almost everything and were forced to move to Gravesend, Brooklyn where, as a teenager, Miller delivered bread every morning before school to help with their finances. After graduating in 1932 from Abraham Lincoln High School, Miller worked several jobs in order to pay for his college tuition at the University of Michigan where he would major in journalism. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. With a picture of Miller's parents laid in. From the library of Arthur Miller. An exceptional association copy on this landmark of twentieth century literature. Written as an allegory for the heightened political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals during the McCarthy era, Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible offers a dramatized and partially fictionalized retelling of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692â"93. In 1952, Miller's close personal friend Elia Kazan appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and named eight members of the Group Theatre who had recently been fellow members of the Communist Party. Kazan's act outraged Miller and inspired him to travel to Salem to begin work on The Crucible. The play was first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway on January 22, 1953, starring E. G. Marshall, Beatrice Straight and Madeleine Sherwood to largely hostile reviews but was soon awarded the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. The HUAC took an interest in Miller himself not long after The Crucible opened, and in 1956 summoned him to appear before the committee. During the hearing, Miller refused to comply with the committee's orders to provide the names of colleagues who may have been involved with Communist Party and was found guilty of contempt of Congress, a ruling which was overturned the following year. Though is was only somewhat successful at the time of its release, The Crucible remains Miller's most frequently produced work. In 1996, a film adaptation of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Scofield, Bruce Davison and Winona Ryder was released. Miller spent much of 1996 working on the screenplay and it earned him his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.

First edition, early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Gerald Kramer, Arthur Miller." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Gjon Mili. Uncommon signed. The Crucible has been adapted for film, television, and opera. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre adapted it as the 1958 film Les Sorcières de Salem, and later Miller himself adapted the play as the 1996 film The Crucible. The latter including in its cast Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, and it earned Miller his only nomination for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. On television, the play has aired in 1968 and 2006. Finally, the play was adapted by composer Robert Ward into an opera in 1961, for which it received the Pulitzer Prize.

Original-Broschur. Condition: Gut. deutschsprachige Erstausgabe. auf Titel signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller Arthur Miller (1915-2005) leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Papier etwas altersgebräuntEcken und Ränder leicht beschädigt. Signed by author Size: 8°. Vom Autor signiert. Buch.

First edition. 8vo, pp. 32. Bound in slightly soiled paper wraps. Signed by Arthur Miller. Rare.

A Viking Compass Book / New York 1973. In-12 broché de 152 pages au format 13 x 19,5 cm; Couverture illustrée. Pièce en 4 actes. Dos carré. Infimes frottis aux coins. Très légère trace de pliure au coin inférieur droit du 1er plat. Réédition en superbe état général. Rarissime et précieux exemplaire enrichi d'une belle dédicace autographe, signée, de l'auteur.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Arthur Miller on the title page. Bound in publisher's pin-stripe paper boards over grey cloth backstrip with spine lettered in red. Very Good+ with light wear to crown, toning at edges and light marking to text on 5 pp. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, chipping to spine ends and top edges and light toning to covers and flaps. Miller's blockbuster drama centered on the Salem Witch Trials. The screenplay won him the 1953 Tony Award and was later adapted Academy Award Winning 1996 film starring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day Lewis.