Act One: An Autobiography (The Modern Library, No. 329)
New York: The Modern Library, 1959. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2325001
1960-63 printing, Toledano 329.1, binding/jacket style 8j with 415 titles on verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Pencil gift note on title page, jacket edges lightly rubbed with minimal loss from spine head.
444 pp. Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the early twentieth century. Hart's story inspired a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and readers everywhere as he eloquently chronicled his impoverished childhood and his long, determined struggle to reach the opening night of his first Broadway hit. Act One is the quintessential American success story.
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