Description
Samuel French, Published 1933. Wraps, 33 pp.; 19 cm; staple bound; no statement of later printing.
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Condition & notes
In Acceptable condition. Green paper covers with black lettering within a ruled border. "PRICE" stamped in purple ink diagonally across lower front cover, with a fainter partial impression above. Mild shelf wear with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, scattered foxing and some soiling. Vertical crease through the text block. Innermost folded leaf, pp. 13 to 16, has pulled away from the staples and is laid in; all leaves present. Light pencil underlining on a few pages. Pages toned. Weak inking along the left edge of the type block on some pages is as issued. Smiler sells papers on a drab street in an unnamed American city and clicks a toy pistol that will not fire. Lisa, his lame playmate, has never been told about dragons. St. George's dragon then saunters in, shrunken with the years, a vegetarian these many years, speaking Oxford and still amused at having outwitted the knight who claimed to have killed him, and lends the pair a helping claw against a motion picture producer named Adolf Schnitzel. Awarded a prize in Class II of the Junior League Playwriting Contest, 1932. Cast of seven; playing time forty minutes. The note on the cast page asks for Pat's Irish twang, Tony's Italian and Schnitzel's German against the Dragon's Oxford, so that the play is, in its own words, at once a product of and a comment on the contemporary melting pot. Covers carry the Junior League Plays list, including three dramatizations from L. Frank Baum.