Man of La Mancha; a musical play [*SIGNED*]

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Good dj. (c.1966). First Edition. Hardcover. [minor wear to cloth at spine ends, no other significant wear; the jacket is rubbed and scuffed, with a few tiny edge-nicks, and is severely color-shifted along the spine and along the left edge of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by playwright Wasserman on the front endpaper: "To Del, who / helped -- / Dale." Musical adaptation of "Don Quixote," which premiered in 1965 with Richard Kiley in the title role; filmed by director Arthur Hiller in 1972, with Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren. [Note re book content: please note that, as usual with published versions of musical plays, this incudes the lyrics of the songs but NOT the music.] As noted by the playwright in his introduction, the play was written "first for television in a ninety-minute version [that] was produced with considerable éclat and garnered a number of awards but left me profoundly dissatisfied, for the strictures of television and its assertive naturalism had defeated both my design and intentions." That earlier, non-musical TV incarnation (aired under the "DuPont Show of the Month" banner on November 9, 1959) was entitled "I, Don Quixote." The connection between Wasserman and the inscribee, film/TV director Delbert Mann, is unknown (at least to me), as is the nature of whatever "help" he may have provided to the author. (He did not direct the DuPont show, however,) Signed by Author .