Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition first printing of Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung adapted by Edward Albee in an price-clipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. First Edition, stated
The book is in Near Fine condition with black cloth boards with a few spots, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price cut from the front flap, and very mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung are two one-act plays by Edward Albee – probably the premier absurdist playwright in the United States. Box is a highly abstract monologue. It begins with the sound of an invisible woman’s voice that comes from the back and sides of the auditorium as the audience looks into the interior of the outline of a large cube. Then in Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung, a separate, but related play, the lights come up to reveal the outline of an ocean liner, two figures in deck a wealthy woman of sixty and an aged minister. The lady unfolds a convoluted autobiographical narrative about her husband’s death, her unhappy relationship with her daughter, an accident she witnessed, and her own attempted suicide.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
