SIGNED - MARC CONNELLY - THE GREEN PASTURES, LIMITED ED 550 COPIES 1930 SOUTHERN

  SIGNED - MARC CONNELLY - THE GREEN PASTURES: A FABLE SUGGESTED BY ROARK BRADFORD'S SOUTHERN SKETCHES, "OL' MAN ADAM AN' HIS CHILLUN" — By Marc Connelly, With Illustrations by Robert Edmund Jones — LIMITED EDITION OF 550 COPIES, 1930

 Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York (1930)

Signed, limited edition printing of "The Green Pastures" by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Marc Connelly, in very well preserved condition. Signed and inscribed on the first blank page to Frederic Golden-Howes, March 1930, New York. Full leather boards with raised spine bands and gilt. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for some very light foxing on the bottom of the frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated by Robert Edmund Jones. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "The Green Pastures" is an amusing and sensitive play portraying scenes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African American child in the Depression-era South. Adapted from "Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun," a collection of short stories by Roark Bradford. Author later collaborated with William Keighley in the direction of a Hollywood film adaptation of the play made in 1936, starring Rex Ingram as "De Lawd," and later adapted twice for television in 1957 and 1959.