Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover
• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket
• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside
Condition notes: Cloth boards with gilt lettering. Typical age toning and light wear consistent with an 1930s hardcover. A solid vintage copy with strong shelf presence.
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Blurb: “A landmark of American stage and screen, The Petrified Forest is Robert E. Sherwood’s tense, dialogue-driven drama that helped define Depression-era storytelling. Best known for its iconic Broadway and Hollywood adaptations, the play blends existential longing, crime, and romance into a stark portrait of people trapped by circumstance and dreaming of escape.
Set in a lonely desert roadhouse, the story brings together disillusioned intellectuals, restless dreamers, and a dangerous fugitive, creating a pressure-cooker of ambition, despair, and fatalism. Sherwood’s sharp, literary dialogue gives the play a distinctly modern feel, capturing the mood of a generation searching for meaning in a world that feels frozen in place.
This 1935 Charles Scribner’s Sons hardcover is a classic early 20th-century theatrical edition—an excellent piece for collectors of vintage drama, Hollywood history, and Golden Age American literature.”