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Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
First Edition 1940 Life with Father Hardcover by Howard Lindsay Russel Crouse$20.00
Vintage first edition, "Life With Father Made Into A Play" 1940, hardcover and written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
Book condition: Used - Very Good condition tightly bound, no marks, bent pages, clean copy. No dust jacket. There is a tiny bit of fray on the top and bottom of the spine.
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Knopf
Date published: 1940
The wording hardback edition runs: Clarence Day's Life With Father Made Into a Play by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse.
Clarence Shepard Day Jr was a stockbroker who became a New Yorker columnist and cartoonist. Life With Father was a series of humorous domestic sketches that appeared in book form in 1935, although by that time the writer, semi-invalided by arthritis for much of his life, had died. Accordingly, Day shares with Jonathan Larson, whose posthumously produced musical Rent is ninth in the Broadway hit lists, the melancholy distinction of having spawned a lucrative theatrical sensation that he never saw. The Broadway script was written by Lindsay and Crouse, who are most remembered for their work on the book of the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes.
The play/book is set in the late 19th century in the Madison Avenue home of bigoted, short-tempered stockbroker Clarence (Father), his saintly wife Vinnie (Mother) and their four children.
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