ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
New York: Random House, 1941. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Item #5794
Octavo. [8], 187 pp., plates. First edition, thus. As issued in coarse beige cloth with title and skull and bones vignette in purple and black on the front cover and spine. A very nice copy with some toning to the endpapers and some light staining to the textblock edge including some spotting to the margins of a few pages; 4 full-page photographs are present. Dust jacket is chipped along the top edge of the spine and a the front panel; spine is darkened; front panel has a small hole near the spine and the remnants of a date in pencil; price intact on the front flap. A very nice copy in a relatively good dust jacket of this classic Broadway play that was later adapted to film and directed by Frank Capra.
Price: $450.00