Chicago
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Very Good-/Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative boards in yellow printed dust jacket; ix,[3],111pp. Dust jacket quite chipped and dust-soiled with a few soil spots to upper jacket panel, top inch of spine panel missing affecting title text, boards also quite rubbed and worn, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; overall a Good to Very Good copy only.
Inaugural volume of Knopf's series "The Theatre of Today." The play was adapted into the 1927 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. More memorably, "Chicago" eventually became the Broadway smash hit musical in 1975 which was in turn adapted into the Academy Award-winning film in 2002 directed by Rob Marshall and starring René Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere.
Inaugural volume of Knopf's series "The Theatre of Today." The play was adapted into the 1927 film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. More memorably, "Chicago" eventually became the Broadway smash hit musical in 1975 which was in turn adapted into the Academy Award-winning film in 2002 directed by Rob Marshall and starring René Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere.