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Tobacco road, a three act play / by Jack Kirkland, from the novel by Erskine Caldwell.
LIBRA PS3521.I6996 T63 1934
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirkland, Jack, 1902-1969.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tobacco farmers--Drama.
- Tobacco farmers.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Viking Press, 1934.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright 1934 by Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell."
- "Jack Kirkland has dramatized 'Tobacco Road' in the manner in which, were I myself a playwright, I should have liked to do it. He has followed the novel from beginning to end just as it was written, eliminating those scenes unnecessary for the stage and creating new scenes that are necessary in a dramatic version."--A Note about 'Tobacco Road'" by Erskine Caldwell.
- " ... the first performance, December 4, 1933, at the Forty-Eighth Street Theatre, New York City ..."
- Beige cloth lettered in green and beige on front cover and spine. Top edge stained.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has label of The Drama Book Shop, Inc., New York City.
- OCLC:
- 1856196
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