Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 257

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BALDWIN, JAMES. Giovanni's Room. Small archive consisting of thirteen letters, and one actor's head-shot and resume relating to the proposed stage adaptation of James Baldwin's second novel. Vp, 1957-1958

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Original letters, and carbon copies from, Broadway producer and director John Wilson. Wilson seems to have enthusiastically embarked on the project, only to pull out after a series of frustrating negotiations and misunderstandings. This production never came to fruition and Giovanni''s Room was not seen on the stage until a West End production in London in 1996.