Paris Bound: A Comedy

New York: Samuel French. Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1929. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket is lightly worn, with a few tiny scrape marks on the front panel, a small tear with just a bit of paper loss at the upper left corner of the rear panel]. Barry's first major hit (immediately preceding the much better-known "Holiday"), this comedy about infidelity had a Broadway run of 234 performances during the 1927/1928 season. It also had the distinction of being the first of the playwright's plays to be adapted for the movies (with Ann Harding and Fredric March, in 1929), and was also produced in numerous theatres around the country, thereby providing its author with royalties for many years. Rather unusual for printed playscripts, this volume includes the musical score for Acts II and III, at the back of the book. (NOTE that the "3rd printing" designation appears only on the jacket spine, not in the book itself, which bears only the 1929 dated; the presence of several later works among the list of Barry's plays on the rear panel, however, dates this reprint -- or at least the jacket -- at circa 1932 or 1933.) .