first edition Hardcover
1958 · New York
by LAURENTS, Arthur, book, Music by Leonard Bernstein and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
New York: Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight toning, spotting, and a bump on the top board edge else near fine in a very good spine-faded dust jacket with some creasing and tiny tears. Sondheim's first Broadway musical, a breathtaking update of Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* to contemporary New York street-gangs. That the achievement could further be translated so successfully to film, winning ten Academy Awards, is without precedent. It is also the only film for which two directors received Oscars (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise). (Inventory #: 556592)
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