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Cabaret.
by MASTEROFF, Joe; KANDER, John (music); EBB, Fred (lyrics)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, Random House, 1967. . First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; 3 black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece, unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth-backed yellow boards, red lettering to spine, minor soiling to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket, slightly dust-soiled, minor creasing to corners and head and foot of spine panel, else very good.
From the collection of Clive Hirschhorn, who for decades was the film and theatre critic for the London Sunday Express, with Masteroff's signed presentation inscription: 'To Clive - a really old chum! Joe Masteroff'.
The book of the musical, based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood which drew upon his experiences in the poverty-stricken Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1972, it was adapted into the film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, which won eight academy awards.
From the collection of Clive Hirschhorn, who for decades was the film and theatre critic for the London Sunday Express, with Masteroff's signed presentation inscription: 'To Clive - a really old chum! Joe Masteroff'.
The book of the musical, based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood which drew upon his experiences in the poverty-stricken Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1972, it was adapted into the film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, which won eight academy awards.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109120
- Title
- Cabaret.
- Author
- MASTEROFF, Joe; KANDER, John (music); EBB, Fred (lyrics)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York, Random House, 1967.
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