ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. A Play in Three Acts

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Durant's ink stamp on the front free endpaper. Slightly cocked with a little foxing. Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A prequel to her 1939 drama THE LITTLE FOXES. Patricia Neal, making her Broadway debut, won a Tony Award for her performance in this play. Made into a film in 1948 starring Fredric March. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to American pro-Soviet journalist Kenneth Durant and his wife, poet Genevieve "Jed" Taggard, who died at the age of 54 in 1948: "For Kenneth and Jed/Because it comes with/great affection, and because/they said the only things/I wanted to hear./Love/Lillian." (truncated) A telling inscription and a fine association. (Inventory #: 020422)