Catalogue 87: Fine Books & Manuscripts

F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S

THE BASIS FOR A CLASSIC OF BROADWAY

53. Guys And Dolls RUNYON, Damon

Stokes, 1931. First edition. Original red cloth lettered in black in scarce pictorial dust- wrapper, after a design by Arthur Hawkins. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, which has some archival mending to tears to the folds and a small amount of neat restoration to the spine ends, though the amount of new material is minimal. [41754] £17,500 Runyon’s first book of short stories was the basis for the acclaimed Broadway musical written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, and also for the 1955 the film, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone; Queen’s Quorum 84.

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