July/August 2023

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Firsts Summer Stock Festival
Collecting Pete Dexter
Pete Dexter: An Annotated Checklist of First Editions
BOOKS INTO FILM: The Night of the Iguana
ANTIQUARIAN NOTES: The Book of a Lifetime & The Lifetime of a Book

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Firsts Summer Stock Festival

Imagine a trip back in time to the early 1960s, where we spend a week “going” to see plays in a repertory theatre. Well, of course, without Mr. Wells’ time machine we cannot. But we can read the plays that we might have chosen to see in person. Sound like fun? We thought so.

Collecting Pete Dexter

From The Daily Beast: “Pete Dexter came up as a newspaper columnist in Philadelphia where he was well known for a clean, clear style of writing and monumental errors of judgment.” What? Find out here!

Pete Dexter: An Annotated Checklist of First Editions

For a National Book Award-winning writer, Pete Dexter’s first editions are easily findable in the marketplace.

Editor’s Letter

Calendar

Books into Film

The Night of the Iguana, a play written by Tennessee Williams, a screenplay written by John Huston and Anthony Veiller, a film directed by John Huston

Why an Auction?

Simply put: the time has come.

Antiquarian Notes

“The Book of a Lifetime & The Lifetime of a Book”

Contributors & Upcoming in the September/October 2023 Issue