The Green Pastures

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. VG. (1929). 1st ed. Owner inscription, spine sunned. .

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. First Illustrated Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1936 film, co-directed by the author and starring Rex Ingram. Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed at the extremities with taps to the bottom board corners. Jacket with toning on the front panel,… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, trade issue. Spine sunned, else very good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Very nicely Inscribed by the author, although we have not as yet identified the recipient: "For Michael, my ancient adviser and friend. Marc. Paris, 1930." A very nice copy of the first edition of this… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. Fine. Though slightly leaned, the jacket square and with only modest shelfwear at ends of spine, owner's name on front free endpaper, price intact, spine unsunned. 8vo. 173pp. Original green cloth; original printed dust jacket. A superior copy of Connelly's classic play (and early Farrar imprint), winner of the 1930… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large paper edition. Quarto. Illustrated by Robert Edmond Jones. Modest wear at the extremities, light toning on the boards, else near fine with the usually faded spine unfaded, lacking the cardboard slipcase. One of 550 numbered copies Signed by both Connelly and Jones. The uncommon large paper edition of… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good book, and a wonderful play published in Robert Littell, a well regarded critic in the early 20th century writing forThe New York World. "It is something at once so moving, so intimately… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Large paper edition. Quarto. Illustrated by Robert Edmond Jones. Spine quite sunned as usual, thus very good in the original, lightly worn and very good cardboard slipcase. One of 550 numbered copies Signed by both Connelly and Jones. The uncommon large paper edition of this play, a musical… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition, trade issue. Boards stained, with some tidemarks in the gutters of the first dozen leaves, externally fair only, internally about very good in good dustwrapper split along the front gutter and toned (possibly supplied to the book, but as we received it). Nicely Inscribed by the author: "To… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth/gilt. First edition with the FR symbol on the copyright page. Front hinge starting, scattered slight foxing, cloth extremities sunned, PO pencilled name, bookseller ticket at rear. The DJ in mylar is sunned, chipped to spine ends, slightly soiled/stained. Flap price… Read more about this item

NY: Farrar and Reinhart. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed, part of magazine article or . playbill article discussing critical reaction to the play pasted to front . endpapers, pages toned, jacket sunned and lightly tattered.. 1929. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. The author was a member of the Algonquin Round Table and received the 1930 Pulitzer Award for… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1936 film, co-directed by the author and starring Rex Ingram. A lovely copy. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. None of the usual foxing or offsetting on the endpapers, and only a touch of the… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 1941. First Penguin Edition . Good Plus. 4.5 x 7.25 inches (11 x 18.5 cm). Blank rear cover variant. Overall condition is Good Plus. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £9.95; USA £13.45; Oceania £13.65; Rest of World £12.20. A postage refund will be made after the order… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930, this play portrays episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African American child in the Depression-era South. Among other things, it's notable for having the first all-black Broadway cast. Octavo. Original… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, trade issue. Owner's early ink name and date on front flyleaf, spine is lightly faded at extremities, else a very good or better copy in modestly spine-toned near fine dust jacket. A musical comedy based on white novelist Roark Bradford's *Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun*,… Read more about this item

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 173 pages; Description: xvi, 173 p. 20 cm. Subjects: African Americans --Religion --Folklore. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Farrar & Rinehart, 1929-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. First printing with the FR colophon on copyright page. Inscribed and SIGNED by Marc Connelly on the front endpaper. The volume is bumped at the spine ends, lightly toned on the spine and sunned on the top edges. The unclipped dust jacket is lightly… Read more about this item

Madison : Published For The Wisconsin Center For Film And Theater Research By The University Of Wisconsin Press, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 206 pages; A volume from the Wisconsin/Warner Bros Screenplay Series. Description: 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Green pastures. [Motion… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz, 1930. Hardcover without jacket. First UK edition. No significant exterior wear; page block and some pages are foxed. Endpapers are tanned; small label on rear pastedown. Text is clear throughout. TS. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Good. Used.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Very good with a darkened spine, wear at the spine ends and corners. Inscribed by the author on the title page from another copy of this book which has been laid in.

1930. CONNELLY, Marc. THE GREEN PASTURES. A Fable Suggested by Roark Bradford's Southern Sketches, "Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun." NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. Small 8vo., green cloth in dust jacket. First Edition, later printing. Signed presentation from Connelly on the front endpaper: "For Ellen Lundberg-Nyblow, with happy memories, of her kindness and hospitality. Sincerely, Marc Connelly.… Read more about this item