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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Folio. Original brown cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Increasingly uncommon with dust jacket in this condition.. Gnoli, Domenico. Beautiful first edition of Domenico Gnoli's (1933-1970) modern fairy tale about a melancholy prince who discovers how to smile. Gnoli was a renowned Italian painter and stage designer best known for his surrealist pop art and canvas work featuring extremely scaled paintings of folds, patterns, and textures. Gnoli's more surrealist and fantastical illustrations, sketches, and etchings recall the famed works of Edward Gorey (with which Gnoli's works were sometimes confused)-and Gnoli's talent for the surreal and fantastic are on full display in his most popular and treasured book, Orestes or the Art of Smiling. Equal parts fairy tale and work of art, Gnoli's 1961 book tells the tale of Orestes, young Prince of Terramafiusa, and how he… Read More

Helen Hayes Theatre, 1940. Original script. Script, 9 x 11 inches, 32 pp. Bound in original boards. Mild wear to boards, especially at head and base of spine. Slight toning to page borders (not affecting text) and minor smudging to certain pages from prior use. Pencil marks and notations throughout, including corrections and strike outs, possibly made in connection with the original October 27, 1940 radio broadcasting of the production.. An original radio script for the October 27, 1940 broadcasting of an adapted version of Rose Wilder Lane's (1886-1968) classic novel, Let the Hurricane Roar. Helen Hayes MacArthur (1900-1993) was an American actress and radio personality whose prodigious career spanned eighty years. Hayes would earn the nickname the "First Lady of American Theatre," and she remains among only a handful of performing artists to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. Hayes was the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting, and she would also receive the… Read More