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THE MAGIC CURTAIN. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention by the Founder of the Theatre Guild by Langner, Lawrence - 1951

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THE MAGIC CURTAIN. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention by the Founder of the Theatre Guild by Langner, Lawrence - 1951

THE MAGIC CURTAIN. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention by the Founder of the Theatre Guild

by Langner, Lawrence

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1951 1st, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 113 photos. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1951. First edition. Review copy, with slip laid in. Autobiography by Langner, who distinguished himself first as an international patent attorney before he went on to found the Theatre Guild in 1918. From the library of Milton Merlin, award-winning theatrical writer, director, producer, and book reviewer for the L.A. Times under editor of Paul Jordan Smith. A very good copy in lightly worn jacket with one small chip to the spine heel.
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  • Date Published 1951
  • Keywords General, Langner, Lawrence Theatre Drama Autobiography Guild

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New York: Dutton, 1951. hardcover. Illustrated with 113 photographs in gravure. 498pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1951. Very good.<br/><br/>
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New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very good condition-DJ soiled/Dust Jacket. 1951. First Edition. 8vo., 498 pp. .
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The magic curtain. The story of a life in two fields, theatre and invention by the founder of the Theatre Guild

by LANGNER, LAWRENCE

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London / Wellington / Toronto / Sydney: George G. Harap & Co. Ltd., 1952. 498 pp. Index. B/w photographs. Jacket chipped on the upper and lower part of the back.. Hard Cover. Book good/Jacket : small traces of use.
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The Magic Curtain. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention, by the Founder of the Theatre Guild

by LANGNER, Lawrence (1890-1962)

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London: George G. Harrap and co., 1952. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; [4]; 498. With numerous photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Purple cartographic endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30/- to front flap. Top edge red. Interior bright and mostly clean, some spotting to title page and index. Edges toned. Dust-jacket marked to lower. Toning to spine. Wear and tearing to extremities. Very good. The autobiography of Lawrence Langner, who began his career alongside the Washington Square Players but soon went on to establish the Theatre Guild in 1918.
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