Lips Together, Teeth Apart [Signed to Elaine Steinbeck]

Garden City, NY: The Fireside Theatre, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: The Fireside Theatre, 1992. Book Club Edition. Signed by McNally to his close friend Elaine Steinbeck at title page with inscription, "For Elaine, You have given me so much! I love you--every single thing about you. Ter-le-beau 7.04.92." McNally tutored Steinbeck's sons while they traveled in Europe, and, at the renaming of the Bay Street Theatre's stage after Elaine, he praised her "wisdom, wit, and gusto." Octavo. 144 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket. Red and gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and creased with a few closed tears. Boards show light shelfwear and bottom corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked; overall a Very Good copy and a lovely association.