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NF in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with stamped grey paper over boards and black half-cloth, in black jacket with yellow and white titles, 8vo. 1st edition (stated). 327pp. Index, chronological list of plays directed by Clurman. NF/VG. Book has light scuffing to cloth and mild shelving soil upper page edges. Jacket shows clouding over binding edges and hinge ridges; internally taped 1/2" tear upper rear edge near corner; touches of surface loss at ends of front hinge. Central panels and titles clean and bright. Jacket in Brodart. Prev. owner's name/info mid ffep.
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Very Good in very good jacket. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, very good, inscribed to David Diamond, "musician friend" by Clurman in 1976 and with the estate stamp of William Goldman, "From the Library of William Goldman (1931-2018) jrg." With Diamond's marks and annotations in pen, notes about the text on the rear endpapers and with a laid in change of address card from Clurman. Clurman figures notably in Goldman's "The Season, a Candid Look at Broadway" which Clurman later called "a hatchet job on Broadway, " adding that Goldman "is rude about Clive Barnes and most of the other daily theater critics, is irreverent of Mike Nichols and derisive of a gaggle of other Broadway big shots generally treated with cordiality." Diamond must have lent Goldman this book and never got it back.
If you have ever seen a Broadways show, you have this man to thank, to a great degree.
This is a wonderful book that not only talks about theater folks, but movie stars and other luminaries of the time.
"American Masters", on P.B.S. showed a one hour program entitled, "Harold Clurman---A Life in Theater"; regrettably, it is not available on DVD...yet. You can write PBS and implore them to make it available, as I have.
The other book which Harold wrote was entitled, "The Fervent Years." It sounds just as great a read as this book was.
