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Cabaret. BY JOE MASTEROFF

Creator: JOE MASTEROFF
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
MASTEROFF, JOE; KANDER, JOHN (MUSIC); EBB, FRED (LYRICS).
Cabaret.
Stock Code 109120
New York, Random House, 1967
£1,500
From the collection of Clive Hirschhorn, who for decades was the film and theatre critic for the London Sunday Express, with Masteroff's signed presentation inscription: 'To Clive - a really old chum! Joe Masteroff'.

The book of the musical, based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood which drew upon his experiences in the poverty-stricken Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1972, it was adapted into the film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli which won eight academy awards.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author; 8vo; 3 black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece, unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth-backed yellow boards, red lettering to spine, minor soiling to extremities, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket, slightly dust-soiled, minor creasing to corners and head and foot of spine panel, else very good.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1950-1979
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	109120
Incollect Reference #:	647648

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