Gold Eagle Guy by Levy Melvin (12 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 188 Pp. Maroon Cloth, Gilt. Lightly Used, Gilt Intact And Rather Bright But Not Brilliant, Hinges Tight, No Fraying But Close To It At Corners, No Names Or Marks, Aging To Pages With Some Foxing To Endpapers.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in very good+ price-clipped dust jacket with wear at head and foot of spine and wrinkling. Nice copy of this play wherein a San Francisco waterfront roustabout ultimately becames a ruthless shipping magnate. Levy had quit the Communist Party earlier because he felt their ideological positions would restrain plot development in his work. See Himmelstein, Drama Was a Weapon for more on this play and other work by the Group Theatre. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pp.…

Hardcover. 188p., first edition, very good condition in an unclipped, edge worn dj with some staining along the spine and a few closed tears. Radical play set in the San Francisco waterfront from 1860 to 1906. "One Marxist critic, Stanley Burnshaw, stated that this play told the unadorned truth about the corrupt business practices in the nineteenth century that culminated in America's economic crisis in the mid-thirties." - Sam Smiley, THE DRAMA OF ATTACK, DIDACTIC PLAYS OF THE AMERICAN DEPRESSION. Columbia, 1972. p. 50.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good dj. First Edition. [moderate wear to extremities, very slight fraying to lower corners, some discoloration to endpapers, vintage bookseller's label at bottom corner of front pastedown (Franklin Bookshop, Baltimore), small tears/dents in fore-edges of the first few pages; the jacket is edgeworn, with a 2" wide chip at the bottom of the front panel, a couple of other tiny chips and various other small nicks and tears]. The Group Theatre's previous production, "Men in White," had won the Pulitzer Prize; this play was less well received, running for just 65 performances between November 1934 and January 1935. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To ______ with / affection + / nostalgia / Melvin Levy / 12/17/72." This play, set on the San Francisco waterfront between 1860 and 1906, is about "Guy Button, who begins life as a roistering sailor, and fights his way ruthlessly to fortune and power." It was the 1935 offering in New York of The Group Theatre, with J. Edward Bromberg in the leading role; the opening-night cast also included Roman Bohnen, Clifford Odets, Morris Carnovsky, Sanford Meisner, Luther Adler, Art Smith, Elia Kazan, Jules (later John) Garfield, Russell Collins, and Paula Miller (later Paula Strasberg). (Although not noted anywhere in this book, the production's director was Lee Strasberg.) The final scene takes place during the San Francisco Earthquake. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Corners a little bumped, near fine in good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a soiled spine and some tears at the flap folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Endpapers a little foxed, else near fine in very good dust jacket with dampstaining at the foot of the spine.

First Edition. A Play set in San Francisco. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with wear to rear spine edges.

dj. First Edition. Ocavo (21cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine; dustjacket; 188pp. Bit of soil to text block edges, else a fine, straight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, creased and bruised with a closed tear on rear panel, otherwise unworn. Proletarian historical drama set on the San Francisco waterfront during the "Barbary Coast" era.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Yellow cloth hardcover. First edition stated. Inscribed to the ffep by Levy. Slight wear to spine ends/points; tight and square. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, edgeworn, chipped, rubbed to joints, with a small hole rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. INSCRIBED & dated in year of publication by Melvin Levy to Sam Marx head of MGM studios story department on front end-paper. Near fine in very good+ or better dust jacket. (A few small chips at corners. Short edge tears in jacket. Name of previous owner inked at head of front end-paper) A Group Theatre production.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.