Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 230

Unsold
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
SAROYAN, WILLIAM. Signed Theatre Guild Contract. 28 pages and 1 page contents at end. Stapled folio, contract stipulations typed over printed sheets, slight edgewear, folded; preserved in custom cloth case. Signed "William Saroyan" and initialed "WS" three times. New York: Theatre Guild, Inc., 1939

Additional Details

signed contract for an unspecified play with the Theatre Guild for the production of a script which was to be delivered by Saroyan by November 15, 1939 and to be produced on or before November 1, 1940. This contract likely for either the Pulitzer Prize winning The Time of Your Life, produced by the Theatre Guild and which opened on October 25,1939; or A Theme in the Life of the Great American Goof; or Love's Old Sweet Song, both of which premiered in 1940.