War in Heaven

New York: Coward-McCann. Very Good+ in Very Good- dj. (c.1938). 2nd impression. Hardcover. [a decent solid copy, light soiling and age-tanning to edges of text block, light shelfwear, old tape marks on endpapers; the jacket has some shallow chipping and a couple of small tears along top edge, and appears to have been slightly trimmed along the top and bottom edges (since it's about 3/16" shorter than the book itself)]. The noted playwright's only novel, about "one memorable evening in the lives of a number of vaudeville artists." He also adapted the book for a dramatic version, "Here Come the Clowns," which opened on Broadway in December 1938; although it wasn't exactly a smash hit (it closed the following February after just 88 performances), Barry didn't have much time to brood about since, since the biggest success of his career, "The Philadelphia Story," opened the very next month and ran for a full year. Somewhat uncommon. .