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Green grow the lilacs, a play / by Lynn Riggs.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, Lynn, 1899-1954.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmers.
- Cowboys.
- Love.
- Manners and customs.
- Oklahoma--Social life and customs--Drama.
- Oklahoma.
- Love--Oklahoma--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Cowboys--Oklahoma--Drama.
- Farmers--Oklahoma--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph) b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Riggs, Lynn, 1899-1954 (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
- Abernathy, Milton (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 166 pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Binghamton, N. Y. : Manufactured in the United States of America by The Vail-Ballou Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Los Angeles : Samuel French, Thos. R. Edwards Managing Director ; London : Samuel French Ltd., 1931.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Title page printed in red and black within double-lined border.
- "Copyright 1930, 1931, by Lynn Riggs."
- " ... program of the first performance of 'Green Grow the Lilacs,' as produced at the Guild Theatre, New York, Monday evening, January 26, 1931 ... "
- Contains lyrics for old and traditional songs used in play (Sam Hall, Home on the Range, Goodbye, Old Paint, Strawberry Roan, Blood on the Saddle, Green Grow the Lilacs, Chisholm Trail and Next Big River).
- Price from dustjacket.
- Black cloth spine lettered in gilt with brown cloth boards. Top edge stained brown.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has bookseller's label on back pastedown: "The Drama Book Shop Inc ... New York City".
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "For Milton Abernathy - with all good wishes - Sincerely, Lynn Riggs Chapel Hill Apr. 18, 1931".
- OCLC:
- 287904
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