CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN. by Elder, Lonne III.

CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN.

Edition: Book club edition.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - The first commercially produced play by this African American writer, a story set in Harlem with its moments of triumph leading inexorably to the tragedy with which it ends. Richard Watts in the NY Post said this 'revealed [Elder] as one of the most important playwrights in America and an author of rare integrity and creative strength.' Laid in is a brochure from 'Curtain Time' presenting this as the December 1969 selection (illustrated with several photographs.) 180 pp.

Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. (bookplate mostly hidden by dj flap.)

Book ID: 37979
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