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New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, offset cream spine titles, lacking dust jacket, 102 pp. Good condition, cocked spine with moderate wear. From the library of New York School poet, librettist and publisher, Kenward Elmslie. On front free endpaper in blue ink: "Kenward Gray Elmslie - 1945," with penciled doodles. Adaptation of Perelman and Nash's hit musical (scored by Kurt Weill), which satirized sexual and cultural mores of the day. The musical's debut production starred Martin, whom Elmslie would unsuccessfully court decades later for his adaptation of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a nearly fine dust jacket with only the slightest fading on jacket spine to the red lettering. Perelman's sixth book, a musical play performed on Broadway starring Mary Martin, with songs by Kurt Weill. Filmed in 1948 with Ava Gardner as Venus.